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author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2001-07-13 00:26:32 +0400 |
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committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2001-07-13 00:26:32 +0400 |
commit | 7467c8d3b6a50e2cbd8db750963d40b420ad38d1 (patch) | |
tree | 10dcece1e0bb88e35aa95c3a68896ad426e43f7a /libbb/create_icmp_socket.c | |
parent | f69bfc76fa7acb0c87fa3f3b319fde361a8315a8 (diff) |
Patch from vodz:
Changed email address
cmdedit API change
optimizations for traceroute and md5sum
added a new shared create_icmp_socket() function
Diffstat (limited to 'libbb/create_icmp_socket.c')
-rw-r--r-- | libbb/create_icmp_socket.c | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d804b3987 --- /dev/null +++ b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */ +/* + * Utility routines. + * + * create raw socket for icmp protocol test permision + * and drop root privilegies if running setuid + * + */ + +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <netdb.h> +#include <sys/socket.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include "libbb.h" + +int create_icmp_socket(void) +{ + struct protoent *proto; + int sock; + + proto = getprotobyname("icmp"); + /* if getprotobyname failed, just silently force + * proto->p_proto to have the correct value for "icmp" */ + if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, + (proto ? proto->p_proto : 1))) < 0) { /* 1 == ICMP */ + if (errno == EPERM) + error_msg_and_die("permission denied. (are you root?)"); + else + perror_msg_and_die(can_not_create_raw_socket); + } + + /* drop root privs if running setuid */ + setuid(getuid()); + + return sock; +} |