Taken on board suggestions of Mathieu Lirzin as per e-mails to the bug-mcron@gnu.org mailing list around September 2015.

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-/*                                                   -*-c-*- */
-/*
- *   Copyright (C) 2003, 2014 Dale Mellor
- * 
- *   This file is part of GNU mcron.
- *
- *   GNU mcron is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
- *   the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- *   Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
- *   any later version.
- *
- *   GNU mcron is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- *   ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- *   FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
- *   more details.
- *
- *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- *   with GNU mcron.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-
-/*
-    This C code represents the thinnest possible wrapper around the Guile code
-    which constitutes all the functionality of the mcron program. There are two
-    plus one reasons why we need to do this, and one very unfortunate
-    consequence.
-
-        Firstly, SUID does not work on an executable script. In the end, it is
-        the execution of the translator, in our case guile, which determines the
-        effective user, and it is not wise to make the system guile installation
-        SUID root!
-
-        Secondly, executable scripts show up in ugly ways in listings of the
-        system process table. Guile in particular, with its multi-line
-        #! ...\ \n -s ...!#
-        idiosyncracies shows up in process listings in a way that is difficult
-        to determine what program is actually running.
-
-        A third reason for the C wrapper which might be mentioned is that a
-        security-conscious system administrator can choose to only install a
-        binary, thus removing the possibility of a user studying a guile script
-        and working out ways of hacking it to his own ends, or worse still
-        finding a way to modify it to his own ends.
-
-        Unfortunately, running the guile script from inside a C program means
-        that the sigaction function does not work. Instead, it is necessary to
-        perform the signal processing in C.
-
-    The guile code itself is substituted for the GU1LE_PROGRAM_GOES_HERE (sic)
-    token by the makefile, which processes the scheme to make it look like one
-    big string.
-*/
-
-
-
-#include <string.h>
-#include <signal.h>
-#include <libguile.h>
-
-
-
-/* This is a function designed to be installed as a signal handler, for signals
-   which are supposed to initiate shutdown of this program. It calls the scheme
-   procedure (see mcron.scm for details) to do all the work, and then exits. */
-
-void
-react_to_terminal_signal (int sig)
-{
-  scm_c_eval_string ("(delete-run-file)");
-  exit (1);
-}
-
-
-
-/* This is a function designed to be callable from scheme, and sets up all the
-   signal handlers required by the cron personality.  */
-
-SCM
-set_cron_signals ()
-{
-  static struct sigaction sa;
-  memset (&sa, 0, sizeof (sa));
-  sa.sa_handler = react_to_terminal_signal;
-  sigaction (SIGTERM, &sa, 0);
-  sigaction (SIGINT,  &sa, 0);
-  sigaction (SIGQUIT, &sa, 0);
-  sigaction (SIGHUP,  &sa, 0);
-  
-  return SCM_BOOL_T;
-}
-
-
-
-/* The effective main function (i.e. the one that actually does some work). We
-   register the function above with the guile system, and then execute the mcron
-   guile program. */
-
-void
-inner_main ()
-{
-  scm_c_define_gsubr ("c-set-cron-signals", 0, 0, 0, set_cron_signals);
-    
-  scm_c_eval_string (
-                     GUILE_PROGRAM_GOES_HERE
-                     );
-}
-
-
-
-/* The real main function. Does nothing but start up the guile subsystem. */
-
-int
-main (int argc, char **argv)
-{
-  setenv ("GUILE_LOAD_PATH", GUILE_LOAD_PATH, 1);
-  
-  scm_boot_guile (argc, argv, inner_main, 0);
-  
-  return 0;
-}