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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-02 18:22:22 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 759.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150702182222-034v03mb8orwhezn
mandos-client: Minor changes to check for more error conditions.

* mandos-client.c (add_remove_local_route): Do TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY
                                            around closing of
                                            /dev/null.  Check return
                                            value when opening helper
                                            directory and helper
                                            executable.
  (run_network_hooks): Cast return value of TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY to int.
                       Do TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY around closing of
                       /dev/null.

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-*- org -*-
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* GIT
 
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** General: [[https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows][Git Workflows]], [[http://gitimmersion.com/][Git Immersion]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036628][Simple git workflow is simple]]
 
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** Intro: [[http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html#combine][Using Git for Debian Packaging]]
 
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** Use: [[https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/git-buildpackage/][git-buildpackage]]
 
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** Migration
 
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   tailor?
 
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   Using bzr-fastimport: [[http://www.fusonic.net/en/blog/2013/03/26/migrating-from-bazaar-to-git/][Migrating from Bazaar to Git]]
 
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** Unresolved: [[http://jameswestby.net/bzr/builddeb/user_manual/split.html][bzr builddeb split mode]]
 
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   Maybe: [[http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.UPSTREAM.GIT.NOTARBALL][git-buildpackage - No upstream tarballs]]
 
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   [[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/][PEP 374 - Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project]]
 
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   [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GitForEmacsDevs][Git For Emacs Devs]]
 
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* [[http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110530221728][OpenBSD]]
 
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* Testing
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** python-nemu
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* mandos-client
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** TODO A --server option which only adds to the server list.
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   (Unlike --connect, which implicitly disables zeroconf.)
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** TODO [#B] Use capabilities instead of seteuid().
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   https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2522
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** TODO [#B] Use getaddrinfo(hints=AI_NUMERICHOST) instead of inet_pton()
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** TODO [#C] Make start_mandos_communication() take "struct server".
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** TODO [#C] --interfaces=regex,eth*,noregex (bridge-utils-interfaces(5))
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with EX_TEMPFAIL
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* splashy
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** TODO [#B] use scandir(3) instead of readdir(3)
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with EX_TEMPFAIL
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* usplash (Deprecated)
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** TODO [#B] Make it work again
 
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** TODO [#A] Make it work again
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** TODO [#B] use scandir(3) instead of readdir(3)
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with EX_TEMPFAIL
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* askpass-fifo
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** TODO [#B] lock stdin (with flock()?)
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with EX_TEMPFAIL
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*** Hook up stderr of plugins, buffer them, and prepend "Mandos Plugin [plugin name]"
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** TODO [#C] use same file name rules as run-parts(8)
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** TODO [#A] Restart plugins which exit with EX_TEMPFAIL
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*** import systemd.daemon; systemd.daemon.notify()
 
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** TODO [#B] Work around Avahi issue
 
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   Avahi does not announce link-local addresses if any global
 
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** TODO [#B] Log level                                                    :BUGS:
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** TODO [#C] python-parsedatetime
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** TODO Separate logging logic to own object
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** TODO [#B] Limit approval_delay to max gnutls/tls timeout value
 
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** TODO Support [[http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#standard-interfaces-objectmanager][org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager]] interface on server object :2:
 
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** TODO Remove old string_to_delta format                                 :2:
 
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*** tmpfiles snippet to create /var/lib/mandos with right user+perms
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** TODO D-Bus server properties; address, port, interface, etc.           :2:
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*** TODO [#C] In Python 3.3, use shlex.quote() instead of re.escape()
 
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