It's not that I think that "hostname" is vastly superior to "host name". Quite
the opposite — the difference is small, and in some context the two-word version
does fit better. But in the tree, there are ~200 occurrences of the first, and
>1600 of the other, and consistent spelling is more important than any particular
spelling choice.
This reverts commit b26c904113.
I don't see anythign wrong, but Ubuntu autopkgtest CI started failing fairly
consistently since this was merged. Let's see if reverting fixes things.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This changes the symbolic name for the default gateway from "gateway" to
"_gateway". A new configuration option -Dcompat-gateway-hostname=true|false
is added. If it is set, the old name is also supported, but the new name
is used as the canonical name in either case. This is intended as a temporary
measure to make the transition easier, and the option should be removed
after a few releases, at which point only the new name will be used.
The old "gateway" name mostly works OK, but hasn't gained widespread acceptance
because of the following (potential) conflicts:
- it is completely legal to have a host called "gateway"
- there is no guarantee that "gateway" will not be registered as a TLD, even
though this currently seems unlikely. (Even then, there would be no
conflict except for the case when the top-level domain itself was being resolved.
The "gateway" or "_gateway" labels have only special meaning when the
whole name consists of a single label, so resolution of any subdomain
of the hypothetical gateway. TLD would still work OK. )
Moving to "_gateway" avoids those issues because underscores are not allowed
in host names (RFC 1123, §2.1) and avoids potential conflicts with local or
global names.
v2:
- simplify the logic to hardcode "_gateway" and allow
-Dcompat-gateway-hostname=true as a temporary measure.
This is a follow-up for #5359, fixing the error codes in a similar way
for the other NSS modules.
(user/group lookup calls don't have h_errnop, hence we don't update that
in those cases)
Let's make sure our poll() calls don't get interrupted where they shouldn't (SIGALRM, ...), but allow them to be
interrupted where they should (SIGINT, ...).
Fixes#1965
There are more than enough calls doing string manipulations to deserve
its own files, hence do something about it.
This patch also sorts the #include blocks of all files that needed to be
updated, according to the sorting suggestions from CODING_STYLE. Since
pretty much every file needs our string manipulation functions this
effectively means that most files have sorted #include blocks now.
Also touches a few unrelated include files.
This moves is_gateway() from nss-myhostname into the basic APIs, and
makes it more like is_localhost(). Also, we rename it to
is_gateway_hostname() to make it more expressive.
Sharing this function in src/basic/ allows us to reuse the function for
routing name requests in resolved (in a later commit).
Given that we already hardocde the loopback ifindex, following the
kernel's own logic, we can replace the invocation of
if_nametoindex("lo") with LOOPBACK_IFINDEX.
This patch removes includes that are not used. The removals were found with
include-what-you-use which checks if any of the symbols from a header is
in use.
This is useful inside of containers or local networks to intrdouce a
stable name of the default gateway host (in case of containers usually
the host, in case of LANs usually local router).
In the long run this should become a full fledged client to networkd
(but not before networkd learns bus support). For now, just pull
interesting data out of networkd, udev, and rtnl and present it to the
user, in a simple but useful output.
Yu Watanabe