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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2006-12-27 04:35:09 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2006-12-27 04:35:09 +0000
commit7b76233290bd9dead1848f28ed6d0edfcceb8e09 (patch)
treeb963999fc54eddb65f1929b894f868e24851fc9c /libbb/create_icmp6_socket.c
Correcting tag name to be like previous ones1_3_0
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diff --git a/libbb/create_icmp6_socket.c b/libbb/create_icmp6_socket.c
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+++ b/libbb/create_icmp6_socket.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Utility routines.
+ *
+ * create raw socket for icmp (IPv6 version) protocol test permission
+ * and drop root privileges if running setuid
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <netdb.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
+int create_icmp6_socket(void)
+{
+ struct protoent *proto;
+ int sock;
+
+ proto = getprotobyname("ipv6-icmp");
+ /* if getprotobyname failed, just silently force
+ * proto->p_proto to have the correct value for "ipv6-icmp" */
+ if ((sock = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW,
+ (proto ? proto->p_proto : IPPROTO_ICMPV6))) < 0) {
+ if (errno == EPERM)
+ bb_error_msg_and_die(bb_msg_perm_denied_are_you_root);
+ else
+ bb_perror_msg_and_die(bb_msg_can_not_create_raw_socket);
+ }
+
+ /* drop root privs if running setuid */
+ xsetuid(getuid());
+
+ return sock;
+}
+#endif