This splits out a bunch of functions from fileio.c that have to do with
temporary files. Simply to make the header files a bit shorter, and to
group things more nicely.
No code changes, just some rearranging of source files.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary.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.
This call creates an fd from another fd containing the same data.
Specifically, repeated read() on the returned fd should return the same
data as the original fd. This call is useful when we want to copy data
out of disk images and suchlike, and want to be pass fds with the data
around without having to keep the disk image continously mounted.
The implementation tries to be somewhat smart and tries to prefer
memfds/pipes over files in /tmp or /var/tmp based on the size of the
data, but has appropropriate fallbacks in place.
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.
Quite often we need to set up a number of fds as stdin/stdout/stderr of
a process we are about to start. Add a generic implementation for a
routine doing that that takes care to do so properly:
1. Can handle the case where stdin/stdout/stderr where previously
closed, and the fds to set as stdin/stdout/stderr hence likely in the
0..2 range. handling this properly is nasty, since we need to first
move the fds out of this range in order to later move them back in, to
make things fully robust.
2. Can optionally open /dev/null in case for one or more of the fds, in
a smart way, sharing the open file if possible between multiple of
the fds.
3. Guarantees that O_CLOEXEC is not set on the three fds, even if the fds
already were in the 0..2 range and hence possibly weren't moved.
This adds some paranoia code that moves some of the fds we allocate for
longer periods of times to fds > 2 if they are allocated below this
boundary. This is a paranoid safety thing, in order to avoid that
external code might end up erroneously use our fds under the assumption
they were valid stdin/stdout/stderr. Think: some app closes
stdin/stdout/stderr and then invokes 'fprintf(stderr, …' which causes
writes on our fds.
This both adds the helper to do the moving as well as ports over a
number of users to this new logic. Since we don't want to litter all our
code with invocations of this I tried to strictly focus on fds we keep
open for long periods of times only and only in code that is frequently
loaded into foreign programs (under the assumptions that in our own
codebase we are smart enough to always keep stdin/stdout/stderr
allocated to avoid this pitfall). Specifically this means all code used
by NSS and our sd-xyz API:
1. our logging APIs
2. sd-event
3. sd-bus
4. sd-resolve
5. sd-netlink
This changed was inspired by this:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8075#issuecomment-363689755
This shows that apparently IRL there are programs that do close
stdin/stdout/stderr, and we should accomodate for that.
Note that this won't fix any bugs, this just makes sure that buggy
programs are less likely to interfere with out own code.
All this function does is place some data in an in-memory read-only fd,
that may be read back to get the original data back.
Doing this in a way that works everywhere, given the different kernels
we support as well as different privilege levels is surprisingly
complex.
There is a slight change in behaviour: the user manager for root will create a
temporary file in /run/systemd, not /tmp. I don't think this matters, but
simplifies implementation.
According to its manual page, flags given to mkostemp(3) shouldn't include
O_RDWR, O_CREAT or O_EXCL flags as these are always included. Beyond
those, the only flag that all callers (except a few tests where it
probably doesn't matter) use is O_CLOEXEC, so set that unconditionally.
Lennart Poettering