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authorDarrell Anderson <humanreadable@yahoo.com>2013-05-17 12:44:40 -0500
committerDarrell Anderson <humanreadable@yahoo.com>2013-05-17 12:44:40 -0500
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Rename remnant files and references from kinit -> tdeinit.
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+/*
+ * This file is part of the KDE libraries
+ * Copyright (c) 2007 Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This library 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
+ * Library General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+ * along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
+ * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+ * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#ifdef TDEINIT_OOM_PROTECT
+
+/*
+ The start_tdeinit wrapper is setuid, which means some shell variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ get unset before it's launched. However tdeinit is used to launch most of KDE, so such variables
+ should not be dropped. Therefore this wrapper for the setuid wrapper read the environment
+ and writes it to start_tdeinit's stdin, which after dropping priviledges reads it and uses it
+ for launching the real tdeinit.
+*/
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int pipes[ 2 ];
+ if(argc == 0)
+ return 1;
+ if( pipe( pipes ) < 0 ) {
+ perror( "pipe()" );
+ return 1;
+ }
+ switch( fork()) {
+ case -1:
+ perror( "fork()" );
+ return 1;
+ default: /* parent, exec */
+ close( pipes[ 1 ] );
+ close( 0 ); /* stdin */
+ dup2( pipes[ 0 ], 0 );
+ close( pipes[ 0 ] );
+ argv[ 0 ] = (char*)"start_tdeinit";
+ execvp("start_tdeinit", argv);
+ perror("start_tdeinit");
+ return 1;
+ case 0: { /* child, pass env and exit */
+ extern char** environ;
+ int i;
+ close( pipes[ 0 ] );
+ write( pipes[ 1 ], "environ", 7 ); /* header, just in case */
+ for( i = 0;
+ environ[ i ] != NULL;
+ ++i )
+ {}
+ write( pipes[ 1 ], &i, sizeof( int )); /* write count */
+ for( i = 0;
+ environ[ i ] != NULL;
+ ++i )
+ {
+ int len = strlen( environ[ i ] );
+ write( pipes[ 1 ], &len, sizeof( int )); /* write length */
+ write( pipes[ 1 ], environ[ i ], strlen( environ[ i ] ));
+ }
+ close( pipes[ 1 ] );
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+#else /* not Linux, the simple non-setuid case */
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ if(argc == 0)
+ return 1;
+ argv[0] = "start_tdeinit";
+ execvp("start_tdeinit",argv);
+ perror("start_tdeinit");
+ return 1;
+}
+#endif