CHANGELOG ========= 0.8.4 (20230824) - configure - When explicit --enable-logind fails, exit 1 (requested by Marc Haber) - libslack - configure - Add --default --platform --help --destdir - libslack - make - Change clean/clobber/distclean to be the same and to also unconfigure - configure - Add --disable-mail-test --enable-mail-test (requested by Marc Haber) - Fix copyright/license info (.reuse/dep5) (spotted by Marc Haber) - configure - Fix error message for unknown options - configure - Add --platform info to --help output - INSTALL - Update to reflect recent ./configure changes - configure - Fix --platform check, Add libslack/conf/slackware, Tweak output 0.8.3 (20230819) - Remove 'comparison always true' compiler warning - libslack - macros.mk - Add ability to suppress false 'may be used uninitialized' compiler warnings - doc - Update notes on old binary packages - INSTALL - Add 'PACKAGING SYSTEMS' section - make - Remove deb-daemon and debian-clobber targets and DEBIAN_CLOBBER_FILES (requested by Marc Haber) - make - Change clean/clobber/distclean to be the same and to also unconfigure (requested by Marc Haber) - make - Always default to Linux config for make clean (requested by Marc Haber) - make - Update help to reflect recent clean/clobber/distclean change - Add ./configure --default (for make clean) - configure - Silence stderr for "which gmake" 0.8.2 (20230330) - COPYING - Add copyrights for libslack's optional getopt/snprintf modules - .reuse - Add copyrights for libslack's optional getopt/snprintf modules - make - Exclude man-slack/html-slack/dist-slack from man/html/dist targets - Fix libslack compile error and install error on Solaris - doc - Replace http with https for libslack.org/raf.org and remove trailing / - Change default compiler on OpenBSD to cc 0.8.1 (20230313) - Fixed compiler error when NDEBUG is defined (Baruch Siach) - When NDEBUG is defined exclude more unused code (fix warning, smaller binary) - Fixed buglet: Only delete the pidfile/clientpidfile we created (James Abbatiello abbeyj at gmail.com) - Added CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md - Add LICENSES/* and .reuse/dep5 (REUSE 3.0 compliant) - Add references to the codeberg repository 0.8 (20210304) - Fixed formatting typo in README.md - Added support for (Linux only) musl libc by including for CEOF (by Baruch Siach) - Added --bind option to terminate when the user logs out (iff systemd/elogind) (with ZhaoLin1457 et al.) - Added Slackware-specific configuration - Added expansion of $VAR and ~user notation in command line option arguments and configuration files - Added environment variable definitions in configuration files - Automatically create --pidfiles or --pidfile directory if it's under the user's home directory - Updated README.md (improved notes on --stop and --restart, and added --signal --running --list --bind) - Added configure --help, --destdir, --enable-logind and --disable-logind options - Fixed $(DESTDIR) use in makefiles to interoperate with configure --prefix 0.7.1 (20210220) - Fixed make distclean/clobber on Debian (use debian-clobber instead of clobber) (spotted by Marc Haber) - Fixed parallel make test (race condition creating test directory) (spotted by Marc Haber) - Fixed manpage header and footer and various other minor fixes and improvements - Minor improvements in a few module tests - Added configure --prefix=/opt/local for macports (spotted by Kurt Hindenburg) - Added mention of file locations on macOS/macports to the daemon(1) manpage - Added checks for gcc -W options that fail on old macosx (e.g. 10.6.8) without macports - Minor changes to usage error messages for consistency - Improved config file parsing (skip spaces around commas and added more error messages) - Added support for using $CC in configure (spotted by Ryan Schmidt) - Fixed Makefile (wasn't inheriting CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS or LDFLAGS from caller) (spotted by Ryan Schmidt) 0.7 (20201111) - Fixed bug: race condition causing failure with "exec daemon ..." (with Askar Safin safinaskar at mail.ru) - Added $DAEMON_INIT_EXIT_DELAY_MSEC workaround for obscure KDE/konsole bug (with Askar Safin safinaskar at mail.ru) - Removed O_NOCTTY-related manpage "bug" (now historical) (spotted by Askar Safin safinaskar at mail.ru) - Always double fork for safety on systems of unknown flavour (suggested by Askar Safin safinaskar at mail.ru) - Added support for GNU/Hurd (by Svante Signell svante.signell at telia.com) - Added --ignore-eof and --read-eof options to alter behaviour when client dies without closing stdio (for Terry Greeniaus greeniaus_terry at emc.com and Tilman Baumann at tilman.baumann at grandeye.com) - Fixed bug: daemon_lock_pidfile() leaked fd across exec (spotted by Tilman Baumann tilman.baumann at grandeye.com) - Added --signal option (suggested by Marc Haber mh+daemon-dev at zugschlus.de) - Added --nocore option and removed silly manpage "bug" about its absence - Added fcntl_set_fdflag() and fcntl_clear_fdflag() to the fio module - Added signal_set_siginfo_handler() to the sig module - Added msg_filter_t, msg_create_filter(), msg_create_filter_with_locker() to the msg module - Test secure memory in the mem module for non-root users as well (now that they can do it) - Added prog_{out,err,dbg,alert}_push_filter() to the prog module - Added recvcred(), recvfromcred() to the net module - Added a few more debug messages that were missing - Insert daemon name before client's argv[0] so it appears in ps output (for marko.asplund at gmail.com) - Allow --pidfiles to be present without --name also being present - Added --list option to print a list of named daemons (more detail with --verbose) - Improved error message when client exit()s after --stop (for jakubholy.net at gmail.com) - Added syslog facility and priority lists to daemon(1) manpage (for jakubholy.net at gmail.com) - Various fixes and improvements to manpage - Improved --verbose --running message to state if client is running as well or not (added client pid file) - Fixed buglet: daemon no longer exits with EXIT_FAILURE when client is killed by an unexpected signal - Fixed harmless format string bug in prog_opt_process() (spotted by Jong-Gwon Kim and Woosuk Lee {jgkim,wslee} at ropas.snu.ac.kr) - Fixed bug: leaked fds for --errlog, --dbglog, --stdout and --stderr across exec - Fixed bug in parallelized make: "make ready" first so do it in configure (spotted by ilovezfs at icloud.com) - Fixed copyright messages (list actual years of publication, not just a range of years) - Fixed all sscanf "%s" to limit output (e.g. "%63s") to prevent buffer overruns (was only in test and example code) - Added more tests in the prop module - Fixed buglet: Removed vhangup() in pty_make_controlling_tty() as it broke some coproc module tests if run as root - Fixed str.h to not clash with new strlcpy/strlcat macros on OSX/macOS - Updated to avoid new warnings in recent versions of gcc - Split README into multiple files (README.md INSTALL COPYING REFERENCES CHANGELOG) - Added /etc/daemon.conf.d/ and ~/.daemonrc.d/ configuration directories - Changed "config" script name to "configure" (not an alias anymore) (but it's still not GNU configure) - Changed /etc/daemon.conf file location to /usr/local/etc/daemon.conf on FreeBSD - Changed /etc/daemon.conf file location to /usr/pkg/etc/daemon.conf on NetBSD - Changed installation location prefix to /usr/pkg on NetBSD - Added concrete examples to daemon.conf - Replaced racist pty jargon in code with more descriptive terms 0.6.4 (20100612) - Added more debug statements - Fixed typographical errors in documentation - Fixed bug: need double-fork on Linux (spotted by Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org) - Updated makefiles to work with recent versions of GNU make - Updated to avoid new warnings in recent versions of gcc - Fixed pidfile race condition (with Hilko Bengen bengen at hilluzination.de) - Fixed bug in message for --verbose --running when --pidfile[s] also used - Don't strip if $DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains nostrip (for Julien Danjou acid at debian.org) - Made --running work when readonly (spotted by Thomas Koch thomas at koch.ro) - Stopped modifying --user argument so ps output looks right (for Hilko Bengen) - Made --user use ":" (but still accept ".") (for Lars Wirzenius lars at catalyst.net.nz) - Ported to GNU/kFreeBSD (with Cyril Brulebois cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr) - Added --idiot option (for Andras Korn korn-debbugs at chardonnay.math.bme.hu) - Added example/daemon.initd script (inspired by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs at computer.org) - Ported to NetBSD - Added make nbsd nbsd-daemon nbsd-slack (netbsd binary packages) - Ported to Solaris10 and OpenSolaris - Tested on ubuntu-10.04, debian-5.0.4, fedora-13 (x86_64, i386) - Tested on solaris-10-200910, opensolaris-200906 (amd64, i386) - Tested on openbsd-4.7, freebsd-8.0, netbsd-5.0.2 (amd64, i386) - Tested on macosx-10.{4,5,6} (x86_64, i386, ppc) - Tested on kfreebsd-20090729 (i386) - Updated make rpm sol obsd fbsd osx to continue working 0.6.3 (20040806) - Fixed bug: --acceptable was broken (chris at edesix.com) 0.6.2 (20040102) - Fixed bug: --stop during spawn delay wasn't acted upon - Fixed API bug: didn't include - Fixed bug: -lm wasn't in `libslack-config --libs` on Solaris - Changed --restart: reset spawn burst counters (for stodden at peppermind.de) - Changed daemon_path_is_safe() to give an explanation when unsafe - Added explanations when rejecting unsafe config files and executables - Fixed bug: reset agent state to IDLE when interrupted (bte at kamash.com) - Trim unquoted leading spaces from property values (with bte at kamash.com) - Also trim only unquoted trailing spaces from property names - Added tools/migrate-properties utility (preserves old propfile behaviour) - Fixed bug: ownership partially lost in map_resize (with bte at kamash.com) - Fixed bug: mem_resize was broken since libslack-0.4 (bte at kamash.com) - Fixed DOC bug: stated the importance of including first - Cleaned up error messages (now that prog name is set to --name argument) - Added sections to libslack(3) features list (coproc+pty, low level api) - Fixed bug: if select() failed (unlikely), coproc wasn't closed properly - Fixed bug: when tty_raw() failed (unlikely), it returned the wrong value - Added many examples to the manpages (there are now 91 runnable examples) - Added tools/check-examples to verify that all examples work - Fixed bug: str_fgetline() returned empty string rather than null on eof - Fixed bug: cstrstr() didn't always work due to a typo - Added sections to libslack(3) features list (documentation, testing) - Added intel solaris8 binary package - Ported to Mac OS X (Darwin) 10.3.2 - Added make osx osx-daemon osx-slack (macosx binary packages) - Added pid to --running output (requested by rubinson at email.arizona.edu) - Dropped support for K&R clients (suggested by skaller at ozemail.com.au) - Added hsort_closure(3) (suggested by skaller at maxtal.com.au) - Added make slack.swig (generate a SWIG input file for libslack) 0.6.1 (20030901) - Fixed bug: --noconfig option broken (spotted by paolo at telmap.com) - Fixed bug: --command option broken (spotted by paolo at telmap.com) - Fixed bug: exit too quickly on sigterm (spotted by stodden at cs.tum.edu) - Set prog name to --name argument, if any (for syslog message prefix) 0.6 (20020916) - Added HEADER FILES section to libslack(3) manpage - Added #include to example sections of module manpages - Added conf/freebsd (mmoraes at teleias.com) - Added tools/prefix utility (add prefix to all libslack identifiers) - Added manpage for tools/analyse-debug-locker utility - Separated stdout and stderr in coproc_open() and coproc_close() - Changed coproc open functions to take action() and data arguments - Started using libslack's coproc functions to run client - Added chdir to chroot directory (mmoraes at teleias.com) - Added --env option (mmoraes at teleias.com) - Changed restart behaviour to be like init(8) - Added --acceptable option - Added --attempts option (mmoraes at teleias.com) - Added --delay option - Added --limit option - Removed --force option (no longer meaningful) - Added --foreground option (suggested by mh+daemon at zugschlus.de) - Added --pty option - Exposed daemon_pidfile() - Added daemon_is_running() - Added daemon_stop() - Added --running option - Added --stop option - Added --unsafe option - Added --safe option - Fixed bug: config file parsing could produce garbage options - Replaced demo directory with test directory - Added support for sending client stdout/stderr directly to a file - Renamed --syslog to --output (-s to -o) - Renamed --outlog to --stdout (-o to -O) - Renamed --errlog to --stderr (-e to -E) - Renamed --log to --errlog - Added --dbglog option - Renamed sighandler_t to signal_handler_t (glibc clash - gdr at gno.org) - Ported to Solaris 8 - Split Solaris configuration scripts into conf/solaris[68]-[g]cc - Added support for installing gzipped manpages - Added --inherit option - Added make daemon.conf (just an empty default) - Stopped installing libslack as well by default - Added daemon.conf(5) manpage (just a symlink to daemon(1)) - Added make [un]install-daemon-conf (not by default) - Added Debian source package generation - Stopped generating debian package (until it's a shared library) - Added make fbsd fbsd-daemon fbsd-slack (freebsd binary packages) - Added --command option (suggested by mh+daemon at zugschlus.de) - Added support for absolute path in daemon_pidfile() - Added --pidfiles, --pidfile options (suggested by mh+daemon at zugschlus.de) - Added daemon_getpid() - Added --restart option (suggested by mh+daemon at zugschlus.de) - Added support for ~/.daemonrc - Added --noconfig option - Added check for dubious characters in daemon names - Added libslack-config --upgrade option - Added lame ./config script that just calls existing lame conf/* scripts 0.5 (20011109) - Fixed Makefile bug: decoupled libslack optlevel from module test optlevel - Fixed API bug: str_length_unlocked() was static - Fixed API bug: prop_locker() prototype wasn't in prop.h - Added prop_clear() to prop module - Added octal/hex and error handling to command line integer option handling - Fixed bug: check() just called dump() without testing the condition first - Added variants of six standard C string functions with more useful APIs - Added thread module tests (and locker timing tests) - Changed locker function return values (now same as pthread return values) - Improved speed of lockers (now overhead = 1 test + 1 deref + 1 offset) - Changed item/length/size, bin/hex/oct functions to return -1 on error - Changed error returns to consistently set errno (str, list, map) - Added set_errnull() to err module - Added relative index/range semantics to list functions (same as with str) - Changed fifo_open() to take writefd return arg to prevent fd leaks - Simplified mem_resize() assuming ISO C compliant realloc() - Added internal ISO C compliant realloc() for systems that don't have it - Fixed bug: optval/optlen for getsockopt(SO_ERROR) not initialised - Fixed inode leak: fifo_open() didn't unlink fifo created on error - Removed thread_init(), thread_setcancel() and barriers from thread module - Renamed thread module to locker (decoupled thread safety) - Stopped daemon_revoke_privileges() from clearing supplementary group list - Added initgroups(3) when handling --user=user (with no specific ".group") - Added --chroot, --chdir and --umask options - Changed default umask to 022 for safety - Added support for "debug sections" to debug messaging - Added daemon_become_user() to daemon module - Added "_unlocked" versions of functions in str, list and map modules - Renamed "_locked" functions to "_with_locker" to avoid confusion - Fixed bug: removed highly dubious synchronisation from internal iterators - Added read locked iterators - Added alert functions to prog, err and msg modules - Systematically corrected function prototype typos in manpages - Added net_options() to net module (sets multiple socket options) - Added soundex() to str module - Removed caching and mutex locks in daemon_started_by_init/inetd() - Added ignoring SIGHUP before losing session leadership in daemon_init() - Improved IPv6 support in net module (i.e. can now bind to IPv6 wildcard) - Added support for UNIX domain sockets to net module - Increased socket listen queue length from 5 to 1024 - Fixed bug: net service port selection only used numeric port arg - Added handling of name lookup returning multiple addresses for net clients - Added default host to net client functions (i.e. null host == loopback) - Changed net_create_server() and net_create_client() to take sockopt list - Added support for net clients binding to a specific local port - Added net_gethostbyname() and net_getservbyname() to net module - Made net server and client functions threadsafe - Added socket option notes to net module manpage (from W. Richard Stevens) - Added protocol design notes to net module manpage (from Radia Perlman) - Added sendfd() and recvfd() to net module (send/recv open file descriptor) - Replaced ioctl() with fcntl() in nonblock functions - Added --outlog and --errlog options - Fixed/simplified sigchld handling (was overcomplicated and flaky) - Added support for net client/server service argument being numeric - Added link module (singly/doubly linked lists and "growable" freelists) - Added agent module (poll/select plus hierarchical timing wheel scheduler) - Added net_interfaces() to net module (retrieve list of network interfaces) - Added support for IPv4 and IPv6 multicasting to net module - Added Reliability over UDP functions to net module (net_rudp_transact()) - Added Type of Service (TOS) functions to net module - Changed net_pack/net_unpack functions to take a timeout arg - Added nap() function to fio module (subsecond sleep) - Added threadsafe snprintf() function for systems that don't have it - Added asprintf() to str module for systems that don't have it - Added config.h to simplify compile commands (prelude to autoconf) - Removed thread_attr_{init,set}() (not useful enough or portable enough) - Ported to OpenBSD 2.9 - Added pseudo module (pseudo terminals by Tatu Ylonen from openssh) - Added coproc module (coprocesses with or without a pseudo terminal) - Changed syslog functions to take a priority parameter - Added --force option to daemon (respawn even when client crashes) - Added make obsd obsd-daemon obsd-slack (openbsd binary packages) - Added libslack-config --uninstall - Proofread all of the doco (just once) - Added setting appropriate TOS values in mail() - Fixed validation of relative index/range values in str/list modules - Added relative index semantics to list_item() - Added read locked versions of map_apply() and list_apply() - Added make dist-html-daemon and dist-html-slack (manpages as html.tar.gz) 0.4 (20010215) - Fixed memory usage bugs - Added daemon demo directory (previously, the incomplete "test" directory) - Changed net server/client functions to use service name else port number - Fixed security bug: daemon_file_is_safe() wasn't following symlinks (doh!) - Changed -d and -v options to take optional arguments (both default to 1) - Renamed daemon_file_is_safe() to daemon_path_is_safe() - Added daemon_absolute_path() to daemon module - Added memory pool functions to mem module - Fixed bug: optional option arguments were handled in dodgy C - Made supplied snprintf() POSIX compliant (was using getpagesize()) - Removed conf module (Added daemon_parse_config() to daemon module) - Removed net_chat(), rfc822_localtime(), rfc822_gmtime() (not useful enough) - Added secure memory/pool functions to mem module - Fixed Makefile bug: $(CCFLAGS) for daemon and libslack weren't separate - Added fgetline() to fifo module (reads a line with any line ending) - Added str_fgetline() to str module (like fgetline but handles any length) - Renamed fifo module to fio - Fixed Makefile bug: wasn't uninstalling everything properly - Changed net_send() to take a timeout argument like next_expect() does - Added strlcpy(), strlcat(), strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() to str module - Changed debug levels used by daemon(1) from 8 and 9 to 1 and 2 - Renamed conf/solaris to solaris-gcc and added solaris-cc for sun workshop - Fixed bug: -n and -u options together failed to unlink pidfiles - Fixed security bug: wasn't clearing supplementary groups with -u option - Added support for root and user pidfiles in separate directories - Added make rpm rpm-daemon rpm-slack (with Edward Avis ed at membled.com) - Added installation of manpages for each function (link to module manpage) - Added libslack(3) overview manpage - Added list_break(), map_break() - Renamed assert() to check() for obvious reasons - Renamed re funcs in str module: s/regex/regexpr/g - Added thread module and made everything MT-Safe or MT-Disciplined - Added relative index/range semantics to string functions - Added make deb deb-daemon deb-slack (debian binary packages) - Added make pkg pkg-daemon pkg-slack (solaris binary packages) - Added setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR) for net servers - Changed net server/client API to allow optional setsockopt(RCVBUF/SNDBUF) - Added REFERENCES section to README file - Stopped net_expect/net_send from interfering with SIGALRM/alarm/setitimer - Added read_timeout(), write_timeout() and rw_timeout() to fio module - Changed net_read() and net_write() to take a timeout argument - Added '?' field size specifier to unpack() (for packet length fields) - Added libslack-config administration utility - Renamed sockaddr typedef to sockaddr_t - Changed net_client to take a timeout parameter - Fixed fd leak in error handling code in net server/client functions - Fixed bug: str_regsub() didn't handle empty string matches at all - Changed str_regexpr_split() to take cflags and eflags arguments - Changed all *_destroy macros to functions that take address of pointer - Changed mem_resize macro so client must explicitly provide address of mem - Changed all *_destroy_t typedefs to *_release_t - Added make [un]install-{daemon|slack}-html (not part of make [un]install) - Temporarily removed snprintf module (not MT-Safe, not essential) - Merged lognames module into msg module - Merged opt module into prog module - Renamed _* functions in err module to *f (not ANSI compliant) - Removed MANIFEST 0.3 (20000902) - Started using GNU getopt_long() instead of getopt_long_only() - Started ignoring /etc/daemon.conf if group or world writable - Added -DSVR4 in conf/solaris (doh!) - Added conditional compilation of debug functions - Added assert macro that calls dump() - Completed the daemon(1) manpage (common options weren't documented) - Fixed bug: SIG_IGN, SIG_DFL and nasty signals weren't treated specially - Made lists grow/shrink exponentially rather than linearly - Made maps grow as needed and use arbitrary hash functions and key types - Added multi-dimensional array allocator to the mem module - Added net module: clients/servers, expect/send, pack/unpack, mail - Added internal iterators and some more functions to list and map - Added examples sections to some libprog manpages - Added --user option - Added str module: decent strings + tr, regex, regsub, fmt, trim, lc, uc ... - Added vsscanf(3) implementation for systems that don't have it (e.g. solaris) - Renamed libprog to libslack (thanks, fred!) - Added socks.h - Added daemon_revoke_privileges(), daemon_file_is_safe() to daemon module - Moved revocation of setuid/setgid privileges to start for greater safety - Fixed bug: wasn't unlinking pidfile when client died of natural causes - Fixed bug: wasn't processing config file correctly - Included daemon(1) tests in distribution (not automatic, though) 0.2 (19991223) - Decoupled core file prevention from daemon_init() into its own function, daemon_prevent_core() - Decoupled signal handling from daemon_init() - Cached daemon_started_by_init() and daemon_started_by_inetd() results - Fixed bug when formatting --help message - Added some modules to libprog: conf, list, hsort, map, prop - Added timestamps to msg_out_file() - Included source to GNU getopt_long_only() (if necessary) - Added hdr.h to allow non-ANSI compilers to parse libprog's headers - Moved libprog to a subdirectory using a "Whole Project" Makefile - Converted "Whole Project" Makefile into "Scalable" Makefiles - Added verbosity functions to libprog(prog) - Added -core option to allow core file generation - Added -respawn option to allow client respawn if death not too sudden - Added -syslog option to redirect client stdout and stderr to syslog - Added -log option to specify where daemon stdout and stderr are sent - Fixed bug when constructing data for GNU getopt_long_only() - Fixed bugs in the options table for libprog(prog) - Changed help message format: separated option chunks by a blank line - Fixed bug when obtaining names associated with syslog constants - Added -Config option and /etc/daemon.conf handling - Added pathetic conf/linux and conf/solaris scripts - Revert to real uid/gid if not same as effective uid/gid for safety - Added manpages 0.1 (19991020) - Initial version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL: https://libslack.org/daemon URL: https://raf.org/daemon GIT: https://github.com/raforg/daemon GIT: https://codeberg.org/raforg/daemon Date: 20230824 Author: raf