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authorMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2017-09-27 23:10:29 +0200
committerMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2017-09-27 23:10:29 +0200
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Revert "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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-/* mcron.c -- Run the mcron program.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2015 Mathieu Lirzin
- * 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.
- */
-
-
-
-#include <libguile.h>
-#include <signal.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-
-
-
-/* Handle the signal and exit. All signals that mcron handles will produce
- * the same behavior so we don't need to use the signal value in the
- * implementation. */
-
-static void
-react_to_terminal_signal (int signal)
-{
- scm_c_eval_string ("(delete-run-file)");
- exit (1);
-}
-
-
-
-/* Set up all the signal handlers as required by the cron personality. This
- * is necessary to perform the signal processing in C because the sigaction
- * function won't work when called from Guile; this function is called from
- * the Guile universe. */
-
-static 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;
-}
-
-
-
-/* Launch the Mcron Guile main program. */
-
-static void
-inner_main (void *closure, int argc, char **argv)
-{
- scm_set_current_module (scm_c_resolve_module ("mcron main"));
- scm_c_define_gsubr ("c-set-cron-signals", 0, 0, 0, set_cron_signals);
- scm_c_eval_string ("(main)");
-}
-
-
-
-/* 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;
-}