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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:31:27 -0300
From: Matias Fonzo <selk@...gora.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remaining steps for time64 switchover
Hi Laurent,
Thanks for the explanation and to give more details about it. :-)
El 2019-10-27 20:27, Laurent Bercot escribió:
>
> There is a run-time requirement for s6, but it's not an absolute one:
> the utmps-utmpd and utmps-wtmpd programs simply rely on an interface
> provided by s6-ipcserver(d). If you can provide the same interface,
> you can do without s6.
>
> utmps-utmpd and utmps-wtmpd expect:
> - to be launched via an inetd-like listening on the configured Unix
> domain socket, with stdin reading from the client and stdout writing
> to the client.
> - some environment variables:
> * PROTO must be set to IPC.
> * IPCREMOTEEUID must be set to the effective uid of the client.
> * IPCREMOTEEGID must be set to the effective gid of the client.
> Those last two are obtained on Linux via a struct ucred and the
> SO_PEERCRED option to getsockopt(). You can't fake that, it's the
> very reason why utmps is secure.
>
> Of course, you could also package s6 in Dragora. If you already have
> a perp supervision tree, you don't even have to run a s6 one. On the
> other hand, that's a risky proposition, because you might end up liking
> it and wanting to use it more. %-)
>
> --
> Laurent
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