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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:13:44 +0300
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: iputils s20101006

Solar, all -

I'm trying to update our iputils to the newest version.  Issues I've
faced:

1) Our kernel lacks SO_MARK socket option.  It was added in 2008 to
Linux v2.6.25, but was not ported to RHEL5 kernel:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4a19ec5800fc3bb64e2d87c4d9fdd9e636086fe0

I've simply commented out the command line argument processing and
setsockopt() call.

2) New arping wants libsysfs and fails to build without it:

arping: arping.o -lsysfs

I'm sure we want to packetize this library as currently some other tools
use this library.  The library itself (without binaries) is 70 kb on
Ubuntu.

http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html

However, if we find it unneeded for Owl, I may delete all occurrences of
sysfs (I believe it is used for information purpose only).

3) manpages are now generated from docbook files:

$(MANFILES): index.db
	@-mkdir tmp.db2man
	@set -e; cd tmp.db2man; nsgmls ../$< | sgmlspl ../docbook2man-spec.pl ;	mv $@ ..
	@-rm -rf tmp.db2man

Looks like we have to ship precompiled manpages.

Solar, please comment on (2).

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
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