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removed the old manual because it is really outdated now In masqmail's 0.3 branch, so much changed that the old manual causes more harm than it improves the distribution. Most content is covered by the man pages anyway. You'll still find the old manual on masqmail's homepage.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:06:08 +0200
parents 98cda87105a7
children fc1c6425c024
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/* child.c, Copyright (C) 2000 by Oliver Kurth,
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program 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 General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 */

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <syslog.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "masqmail.h"


int
child(const char *command)
{
	int pipe[2];

	if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, pipe) == 0) {
		pid_t pid;

		pid = fork();
		if (pid == 0) {
			int i, max_fd = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
			/* child */
			dup2(pipe[0], 0);
			dup2(pipe[0], 1);
			dup2(pipe[0], 2);

			if (max_fd <= 0)
				max_fd = 64;
			for (i = 3; i < max_fd; i++)
				close(i);

			{
				char *argv[] = { "/bin/sh", "-c", (char *) command, NULL };
				execve(*argv, argv, NULL);
			}
			logwrite(LOG_ALERT, "execve failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
			_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
		} else if (pid == -1) {
			return -1;
		} else {
			close(pipe[0]);
			return pipe[1];
		}
	}
	return -2;
}