- Fix buffer overflow problem once and for all: do away with the buffer
copies to 'user' prior to calling _scancaches() and just pass a pointer
to the buffer returned by yp_match()/yp_first()/yp_next()/whatever.
(We turn the first ':' to a NUL first so strcmp() works, then change it
back later. Submitted by Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> and
tweaked slightly by me.
- Give _pw_breakout_yp() the 'more elegant solution' I promised way back when.
Eliminate several copies to static buffers and replace them with just
one copy. (The buffer returned by the NIS functions is at most
YPMAXRECORD bytes long, so we should only need one static buffer of
the same length (plus 2 for paranoia's sake).)
- Also in _pw_breakout_yp(): always set pw.pw_passwd to the username
obtained via NIS regardless of what pw_fields says: usernames cannot
be overridden so we have no choice but to use the name returned by
NIS.
- _Again_ in _pw_breakout_yp(): before doing anything else, check that
the first character of the NIS-returned buffer is not a '+' or '-'.
If it is, drop the entry. (#define EXTRA_PARANOIA 1 :)
- Probe for the master.passwd.* maps once during __initdb() instead
of doing it each time _getyppass() or _nextyppass() is called.
- Don't copy the NIS data buffers to static memory in _getyppass()
and _nextyppass(): this is done in _pw_breakout_yp() now.
- Test against phkmalloc and phkmalloc/2 (TNG!) to make sure we're
free()ing the yp buffers sanely.
- Put _havemaster(), _getyppass() and nextyppass() prototypes under
#ifdef YP. (Somehow they ended up on the wrong side of the #endif.)
- Remove unused variable ___yp_only.
- In some cases, we don't properly resolve _all_ possible group memberships.
If a user is a member of both local and NIS groups, we sometimes lose some
of the membership info from NIS. (Reported by: Thorsten Kukuk
<kukuk@uni-paderborn.de>)
- Make NIS +groupname overrides actually work the way the SunOS group(5)
man page says they should (make them work for all cases: getgrent(),
getgrnam() and getgrgid()).
- When not compiled with -DYP, grscan() should ignore entries that
begin with a '+'. When compiled _with_ -DYP, grscan() should ignore
+groupname entries that don't refer to real NIS groups.
- Remove redundant redeclaration of fgets(), strsep() and index() inside
grscan(). We already #include all the right header files for these.
Note: -groupname exclusion as specified in the Sun documentation still
isn't supported. This'll be a 2.2 addition. Right now I just want this
stuff to work.
What was happening, is if syslogd was not running, syslog() would do
a strcat("\r\n") on a non-null-terminated buffer, and write it to the console.
This meant that sometimes extra characters could be written to the console
during boot, depending on the stack contents.
This totally avoids the potential problem by using writev() like the rest
of the does, and avoid modifying the buffer after the trouble we've gone to
to carefully protect it.
This is actually a trivial fix, in spite of the long commit message.. :-)
It only appeared during boot and shutdown with syslogd stopped.
symbols.
An easy example to see this is to develop an X program which links
against Xt, but doesn't add -lX11 to the link line. It will link fine,
but cause run-time errors by ld.so because of missing symbols used by Xt
defined in X11. This patch makes the errors more readable.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
running on a tty. (Same as isatty()) The old-style TIOCGETP ioctl
wouldn't fly if the kernel didn't have COMPAT_43.
Submitted by: Carl Fongheiser <cmf@netins.net>
Performance is comparable to gnumalloc if you have sufficient RAM, and
it screams around it if you don't.
Compiled with "EXTRA_SANITY" until further notice.
see malloc.3 for more details.
control hooks.
It is similar to an unrolled multi-part snprintf(), in that a "FILE *" is
attached to a string buffer. There is also an optimisation for the case
where the syslog format string does not contain %m, which should improve
performance of "informational" logging, like from ftpd.
the group map after encountering a badly formatted entry.
getpwent.c: same as above for _nextyppass(), and also turn a couple of
sprintf()s into snprintf()s to avoid potential buffer overruns. (The
other day I nearly went mad because of a username in my NIS database
that's actually 9 characters long instead of 8. Stuffing a 9-character
username into an 8-character buffer can do some strange things.)
(This reminds me: I hope somebody's planning to fix the buffer overrun
security hole in syslog(3) before 2.1 ships.)
on, which is fine, except that _yp_dobind() is called before we check
the cache. The means we can return from the cache check (if we have
a hit) without calling _yp_unbind().
We should do the cache check first and _then_ drop into the section
that binds the server and does the yp_match query.
seperate function to avoid duplication. Also fix getpwent() a
small bit to properly handle the case where the magic NIS '+'
entry appears before the end of the password file.
getgrent.c: be a little more SunOS-ish. Make it look like the NIS
group map is 'inserted' at the the point(s) where the magic NIS '+'
entry/entries appear.
getgrent: fix a file descriptor leak: remember to close the netgroup
file after we determine that we're using NIS-only innetgr() lookups.
Since Bruce changed the #include <res_config.h> to #include "res_config.h"
this is no longer needed, and only makes the 'make' more verbose for
no real reason.
Note that this was done by selective patching from diffs, to not conflict
with the 4.4bsd base code.. This was *not* a trivial task.. I have been
testing this code (apart from cosmetic changes) in my libc for a while now.
Obtained from: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
/usr/include/ufs/ufs/quota (#include <ufs/ufs/quota.h>) that seems to work
ok though.
Closes PR # docs/670: quotactl man page incorr...
Submitted by: evans@scnc.k12.mi.us (Jeffrey Evans)
Fix for PR #510. The original problem was that __ivaliduser() was
failing to grant access to a machine listed in a +@netgroup specified
in /etc/hosts.equiv, even though the host being checked was most
certainly in the +@netgroup.
The /etc/hosts.equiv file in question looked like this:
localhost
+@netgroup
The reason for the failure was had to do with gethostbyaddr(). Inside
the __ivaliduser() routine, we need to do a gethostbyaddr() in order
to get back the actual name of the host we're trying to validate since
we're only passed its IP address. The hostname returned by gethostbyaddr()
is later passed as an argument to innetgr(). The problem is that
__icheckhost() later does a gethostbyname() of its own, which clobbers
the buffer returned by gethostbyaddr().
The fix is just to copy the hostname into a private buffer and use
_that_ as the 'host' argument that gets passed to innetgr().
And here I was crawling all over the innetgr() code thinking the
problem was there. *sigh*
'NIS information unchanged' or '/etc/master.passwd unchanged'
depending on which was is being modified (conditional on -DYP).
This is to save me the trouble of writing a whole other error
routine (nis_error()?) for the upcoming changes to passwd and
chpass.
bump it again if something else is added before 2.2.
The xdr_* functions are enabled only in the 2.2 (-current) branch
so far. If that modification is moved to the 2.1 (-stable) branch,
this one should, too.
Reviewed by: the mailing lists
- getnetgrent.c: address some NIS compatibility problems. We really need
to use the netgroup.byuser and netgroup.byhost maps to speed up innetgr()
when using NIS. Also, change the NIS interaction in the following way:
If /etc/netgroup does not exist or is empty (or contains only the
NIS '+' token), we now use NIS exclusively. This lets us use the
'reverse netgroup' maps and is more or less the behavior of other
platforms.
If /etc/netgroup exists and contains local netgroup data (but no '+').
we use only lthe local stuff and ignore NIS.
If /etc/netgroup exists and contains both local data and the '+',
we use the local data nd the netgroup map as a single combined
database (which, unfortunately, can be slow when the netgroup
database is large). This is what we have been doing up until now.
Head off a potential NULL pointer dereference in the old innetgr()
matching code.
Also fix the way the NIS netgroup map is incorporated into things:
adding the '+' is supposed to make it seem as though the netgroup
database is 'inserted' wherever the '+' is placed. We didn't quite
do it that way before.
(The NetBSD people apparently use a real, honest-to-gosh, netgroup.db
database that works just like the password database. This is
actually a neat idea since netgroups is the sort of thing that
can really benefit from having multi-key search capability,
particularly since reverse lookups require more than a trivial
amount of processing. Should we do something like this too?)
- netgroup.5: document all this stuff.
- rcmd.c: some sleuthing with some test programs linked with my own
version of innetgr() has revealed that SunOS always passes the NIS
domain name to innetgr() in the 'domain' argument. We might as well
do the same (if YP is defined).
- ether_addr.c: also fix the NIS interaction so that placing the
'+' token in the /etc/ethers file makes it seem like the NIS
ethers data is 'inserted' at that point. (Chances are nobody will
notice the effect of this change, which is just te way I like it. :)
specified in the top level Makefiles.
Previously I missed dozens of Makefiles that skip the install after
using `cmp -s' to decide that the install isn't necessary.
variable directly in tgetent by stderr or stdout output speed.
It helps hide in non-standard __set_ospeed function and remove it
from other sources (coming soon).
Do prototype cleanup too.
changeover, so we have to extend the format of timezone files (in a backward-
compatible way, of course). This probably means that libc needs a minor
version number bump before 2.2 is released (or maybe not).
by me). This probably loses for multibyte characters, but I have no
way of telling. I'll let ache decide whether to add this support to
startup_setlocale. Note that for this to make any sense at all, the
symlinks in /usr/share/locale must go. (For the moment, this doesn't
make any difference since there are no locales supplied.)
Obtained from: Arthur David Olson <ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
Basically all termios+termcap pgms needs it.
It set ospeed variable using nearest-matched stty speeds,
which helps termcap pgms works with non-fixed termios speeds
and not duplicate ospeed switch into every pgm.
Also it isn't standard function, its source code is too big to include it
in whole to every termcap+termios pgm.
Back out the 'help NIS rebind faster' hack. This change used a
connect()/send() pair rather than the original sendto() to allow
RPC to pass ICMP host unreachable and similar errors up to RPC
programs that use UDP. This is not a terrible thing by itself, but it can
cause trouble in environments with multi-homed hosts: if the portmapper
on the multi-homed machine sends a reply with a source address
that's different than the one associated with the connection by
connect(), the kernel will send a port unreachable message and
drop the reply. For the sake of compatibility with everybody else
on the planet, it's best to revert to the old behavior.
*long, heavy sigh*
like 38400<any 8bit char, isalpha> it not detect this stuff and
produce very big number instead. Fixed by operating with unsigned char
and checking for isascii. (secure/telnetd hits by it f.e.)
the comment before checking for long lines, so there was a possibility
that the wrap-around might be used as an exploitable hostname.
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
Strange as it sounds, it should map to YPERR_DOMAIN instead.
The YP_NODOM protocol error code is generally returned by ypserv when you
ask it for data from a domain that it doesn't support. By contrast,
the YPERR_NODOM error code means 'local domain name not set.'
Consequently, this incorrect mapping leads to yperr_string() generating
a very confusing error message. YPERR_DOMAIN says 'couldn't
bind to a server which serves this domain' which is much closer
to the truth.
1) Do dependencies.
2) Install all appropriate links to manual pages.
3) Install header file in `beforeinstall' like all the rest.
4) Install header file only if changed.
5) Install object files only if changed.
on dlclose. Also correctly call constructors and destructors for libraries
linked with /usr/lib/c++rt0.o.
Change interpretation of dlopen manpage to call _init() rather than init()
for dlopened objects.
Change c++rt0.o to avoid using atexit to call destructors, allowing dlclose to
call destructors when an object is unloaded.
Change interface between crt0 and ld.so to allow crt0 to call a function on
exit to call destructors for shared libraries explicitly.
These changes are backwards compatible. Old binaries will work with the new
ld.so and new binaries will work with the old ld.so. A version number has
been introduced in the crt0-ld.so interface to allow for future changes.
Reviewed by: GAWollman, Craig Struble <cstruble@singularity.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
_gr_breakout_yp(): if we encounter a NULL pointer generated as the
result of a badly formatted NIS passwd entry (e.g. missing fields),
we punt and return an error code, thereby silently skipping the
bad entry.
last night:
_gr_breakout_yp() doesn't check for badly formatted NIS group entries.
For example, a bogus entry like this:
bootp::user1,user2,user3
will lead to a null pointer dereference and a SEGV (note that the GID
field is missing -- this results in one of the strsep(&result, ":")
returning NULL). The symtpom of this problem is programs dumping
core left and right the moment you add a + entry to /etc/group.
Note that while this is similar to an earlier bug, it's caused by a
different set of circumstances.
The fix is to check for the NULL pointers and have _gr_breakout_yp()
punt and return a failure code if it catches one. This is more or
less the behavior of SunOS: if a bad NIS group entry is encountered,
it's silently ignored. I don't think our standard (non-NIS) group
parsing code behaves the same way. It doesn't crash though, so I'm
citing the 'it ain't broken, don't fix it' rule and leaving it alone.
I'll probably have to add similar checks to _pw_breakout_yp() in
getpwent.c to ward off the same problems. It's rare that bad NIS
map entries like this occur, but we should handle them gracefully
when they do.
'cycle in netgroup check too greedy').
PR #508 is apparently due to an inconsistency in the way the 4.4BSD
netgroup code deals with bad netgroups. When 4.4BSD code encounters
a badly formed netgroup entry (e.g. (somehost,-somedomain), which,
because of the missing comma between the '-' and 'somedomain,' has
only 2 fields instead of 3), it generates an error message and
then bails out without doing any more processing on the netgroup
containing the bad entry. Conversely, every other *NIX in the world
that usees netgroups just tries to parse the entry as best it can
and then silently continues on its way.
The result is that two bad things happen: 1) we ignore other valid entries
within the netgroup containing the bogus entry, which prevents
us from interoperating with other systems that don't behave this way,
and 2) by printing an error to stderr from inside libc, we hose certain
programs, in this case rlogind. In the problem report, Bill Fenner
noted that the 'B' from 'Bad' was missing, and that rlogind exited
immediately after generating the error. The missing 'B' is apparently
not caused by any problem in getnetgrent.c; more likely it's getting
swallowed up by rlogind somehow, and the error message itself causes
rlogind to become confused. I was able to duplicate this problem and
discovered that running a simple test program on my FreeBSD system
resulted in a properly formatted (if confusing) error, whereas triggering
the error by trying to rlogin to the machine yielded the missing 'B'
problem.
Anyway, the fixes for this are as follows:
- The error message has been reformatted so that it prints out more useful
information (e.g. Bad entry (somehost,-somedomain) in netgroup "foo").
We check for NULL entries so that we don't print '(null)' anymore too. :)
- Rearranged things in parse_netgrp() so that we make a best guess at
what bad entries are supposed to look like and then continue processing
instead of bailing out.
- Even though the error message has been cleaned up, it's wrapped inside
a #ifdef DEBUG. This way we match the behavior of other systems. Since we
now handle the error condition better anyway, this error message becomes
less important.
PR #507 is another case of inconsistency. The code that handles
duplicate/circular netgroup entries isn't really 'too greedy; -- it's
just too noisy. If you have a netgroup containing duplicate entries,
the code actually does the right thing, but it also generates an error
message. As with the 'Bad netgroup' message, spewing this out from
inside libc can also hose certain programs (like rlogind). Again, no
other system generates an error message in this case.
The only change here is to hide the error message inside an #ifdef DEBUG.
Like the other message, it's largely superfluous since the code handles
the condition correctly.
Note that PR #510 (+@netgroup host matching in /etc/hosts.equiv) is still
being investigated. I haven't been able to duplicate it myself, and I
strongly suspect it to be a configuration problem of some kind. However,
I'm leaving all three PRs open until I get 510 resolved just for the
sake of paranoia.
ypbind.c:
Make fewer assumtions about the state of the dom_alive and dom_broadcasting
flags in roc_received().
If select() fails, use syslog() to report the error rather than perror().
Check that all our malloc()s succeed. Report malloc() failure in
ypbindproc_setdom_2() to callers.
yplib.c:
Use #defined constants in ypbinderr_string() rather than hard-coded values.
Remove bogus targets.
Allocate partition letters as follows:
lowest offset "flags & CHUNK_IS_ROOT" gets 'a',
lowest offset "subtype==FS_SWAP" gets 'b'
the rest is allocated in offset order from this sequence "defghab".
This will generally make sense.
Added rules to complain if more than one CHUNK_IS_ROOT or more than one
FS_SWAP per FreeBSD chunk.
Set CHUNK_IS_ROOT on the 'a' partition in Open_Disk.
Run Fixup_Names in Open_Disk.
Add mbr and bteasy17 to tst01
read partitions from kernel instead of disk.
Still problems with writing labels, discussing with Bruce.
Extended slices doesn't get written yet.
- If you take the wheel entry out of /etc/group and turn on NIS,
the '+:*::' line is incorrectly flagged as the entry for wheel (the
empty gid section is translated to 0), hence getgrgid() returns '+'
as the name of the group instead of 'wheel.'
- Using just '+:' as the 'turn on NIS' switch in /etc/group makes
getgrgid() dump core because of a null pointer dereference. (Last
time I was in here, I foolishly assumed that fixing the core dump
problems with getgrnam() and getgrent() would fix getgrgid() too.
Silly me.)
Made an All_FreeBSD() function.
Added a cmd-line interface (lowest rank) to the tst01 program.
The tst01 program is harmless (worst it can do is coredump), but it
is instructive to run, you can see what the slice-code things of your
disk...
- Moved to a more client-driven model. We aggressively attempt to keep
the default domain bound (as before) but we give up on non-default
domains if we lose contact with a server and fail to get a response
after one round of broadcasting. This helps drastically reduce the
amount of network bandwitdh that ypbind consumes: if a client references
the secondary domain at some later point, this will prod ypbind into
establishing a new binding anyway, so continuously broadcasting without
need is pointless.
Note that we still actively seek out a binding for our default domain
even if no client program has queried us yet. I'm not exactly sure if
this matches SunOS's behavior or not, but I decided to do it this way
since we can get into all sorts of trouble if our default domain comes
unbound. Even so, we're still much quieter than we used to be.
- Removed a bunch of no-longer pertinent comments and a couple of
chunks of #ifdef 0'ed code that no longer fit in to the new layout.
- Theo deRaadt must have become frustrated with the callback mechanism
in clnt_broadcast(), because he shamelessly stole the clnt_broadcast()
code right out of the RPC library and hacked it up to suit his needs.
(Comments and all! :)
I can understand why: clnt_broadcast() blocks while awaiting replies.
Changing this behavior requires surgery. However, you can work around
this: fork the broadcast into a child process and relay the results
back to the parent via a pipe. (Careful obervation has shown that the
SunOS ypbind forks children for broadcasting too, though I can only
guess what sort of interprocess communication it uses. pipe() seems to
do the job well enough.)
This may seem like the long way around, but it's not really that
hard to implement, and I'd prefer to use documented RPC library functions
wherever possible. We're careful to limit the number of simultaneous
broadcasters to avoid swamping the system (the current limit is 5).
Each clnt_broadcast() call only sends out a small number of packets
at increasing intervals. We're also careful not to spawn more than one
bradcaster for a given domain.
- Used clntudp_bufcreate() and clnt_call() to implement a ping()
function for directly querying a particular server so that we can
check if it's still alive. This lets me completely remove the old
bradcasting code and use actual RPC library calls instead, at the
cost of more than a few handfulls of torn-out hair. (Make no mistake
folks: I *HATE* RPC.) Currently, the ping interval is one minute.
- Fixed another potential 'nfds too big for select()' bug: use
_rpc_dtablesize() instead of getdtablesize().
- Quieted gcc -Wall a bit.
- Probably a bunch of other stuff that I've forgotten.
ypbind.8:
- Updated man page to reflect modifications.
ypwhich.c:
- Small mind-o fix from last time: decode error results from
ypbind correctly (*groan*)
yplib.c:
- same as above
- Change behavior of _yp_dobind() a little: if we get back a 'Domain
not bound' error for a given domain, retry a few times before giving
up and passing the error back to the caller. We have to sleep for a
few seconds between tries since the 'Domain not bound' error comes
back immediately (by repeatedly looping, we end up pounding on ypbind).
We retry at most 20 times at 5 second intervals. This gives us a full
minute to get a response. This seems to deviate a bit from SunOS
behavior -- it appears to wait forever -- but I don't like the idea
of perpetually hanging inside a library call.
Note that this should fix the problems some people have with bindings
not being established fast enough at boot time; sometimes amd is started
in /etc/rc after ypbind has run but before it gets a binding set up. The
automounter gets annoyed at this and tends to exit. By pausing ther YP
calls until a binding is ready, we avoid this situation.
- Another _yp_dobind() change: if we determine that our binding files
are unlocked or nonexistent, jump directly to code that pokes ypbind
into restablishing the binding. Again, if it fails, we'll time out
eventually and return.
components of the system.
The license is poorly worded, though I have an (email only) release
from the author for unlimited FreeBSD use. I will try to get something
more concrete, though the author's remote location makes this difficult.
Submitted by: Oleg Orel <orel@oea.ihep.su>
ypbind.c: if a client program asks ypbind for the name of the server
for a particular domain, and there isn't a binding for that domain
available yet, ypbind needs to supply a status value along with its
failure message. Set yprespbody.ypbind_error before returning from
a ypbindproc_domain request.
yplib.c: properly handle the error status messages ypbind now has the
ability to send us. Add a ypbinderr_string() function to decode the
error values.
ypwhich.c: handle ypbind errors correctly: yperr_string() can't handle
ypbind_status messages -- use ypbinderr_string instead.
- it succeeded on non-directories (see POSIX 5.1.2.4).
- it hung on (non-open) named pipes.
- it leaked memory if the second malloc() failed.
- it didn't preserve errno across errors in close().
of the plus or minus lists at all, reject him. This lets you create
a +@netgroup list of users that you want to admit and reject everybody
else. If you end your +@netgroup list with the wildcard line
(+:::::::::) then you'll have a +@netgroup list that remaps the
specified people but leaves people not in any netgroup unaffected.
link stage fell over for any program that attempted to use rexec().
Ruserpass() remains undocumented; i could not find any documentation
for it on other systems.
Also added a BUGS section to the man page, stating that this function
constitutes a potential security hole (as well as the underlying
"exec" service).
Submitted by: rgrimes
Originally submitted by: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Obtained from: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG
o add missing man pages
o make all man pages clearly refer to the libcompat thingie
o add the information to the vtimes(3) and vlimit(3) man pages
that nobody has reimplemented the functions by now
o add the missing getpw.c
o add code and man pages for cftime(3) and
ascftime(3) -- i found them somewhere in old
unfinished work
where one or more of the non-default domains are not yet bound.
If we make a YP request for a domain other than the default domain,
and there is no binding for the new domain yet, _yp_dobind() sees
that the /var/yp/binding/DOMAIN.VERS file for the unbound domain is
not locked (by ypbind) and from this it concludes that the NIS system
is dead, so it gives up.
This behavior has been changed: before giving up in this case, we now
make a second check to see if the binding file for the *default* domain
is also not locked. Only if the default domain binding file is also
unlocked to we now assume that ypbind has bought the farm and bail out.
(Note: this assumes that the user hasn't changed the default domain
while ypbind is running.)
With this change, _do_ypbind() is allowed to proceed into the next
section of code wherein it prods ypbind into establishing a binding
for the new domain. This first call times out after ten seconds,
after which it should retry and succeed. From then on, the binding
for the second domain should be handled normally.
Second part of update to fdlibm 5.2: speed up argument reduction for trig
functions in the case pi/4 < |x| < 3pi/4.
Remove unused static constants ("one").
isctype.c:
o The tolower() and toupper() functions duplicated too much code
and were out of date (surprise). This didn't matter because
it was difficult to call them.
o Change formatting to be more like that in <ctype.h> (with
extra parentheses as in the macros). Perhaps this file should
be machine generated or everything should be handled like
__tolower() so that no code is repeated.
nomacros.c:
o Instead of looking at _USE_CTYPE_INLINE_ to see what <ctype.h>
has done, set _EXTERNALIZE_CTYPE_INLINES_ to tell <ctype.h>
what to do, so that we don't have anything left to do. Note
that code is now generated even if inlines are used by default.
This allows users to switch to non-inline versions.
select() returns EINVAL if you try to feed it a value of FD_SETSIZE greater
that 256. You can apparently adjust this by specifying a larger value of
FD_SETSIZE when configuring your kernel. However, if you set the maximum
number of open file descriptors per process to some value greater than
the FD_SETSIZE value that select() expects, many selects() within the RPC
library code will be botched because _rpc_dtablesize() will return
invalid numbers. This is to say that it will return the upper descriptor
table size limit which can be much higher than 256. Unless select() is
prepared to expect this 'unusually' high value, it will fail. (A good
example of this can be seen with NIS enabled: if you type 'unlimit' at
the shell prompt and then run any command that does NIS calls, you'll
be bombarded with errors from clnttcp_create().)
A temporary fix for this is to clamp the value returned by _rpc_dtablesize()
at FD_SETSIZE (as defined in <sys/types.h> (256)). I suppose the Right
Thing would be to provide some mechanism for select() to dynamically
adjust itself to handle FD_SETSIZE values larger than 256, but it's a
bit late in the game for that. Hopefully 256 file descriptors will be enough
to keep RPC happy for now.
add #includes for YP headers when compiling with -DYP to avoid some implicit
declarations.
getgrent.c & getnetgrent.c: add some #includes to avoid implicit declarations
of YP functions.
Obtained from: Casper H. Dik (by vay of Usenet)
Small patch to help improve NIS rebinding times (among other things):
>From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
>Subject: FIX for slow rebinding of NIS.
>Summary: a small change in libc makes life with NIS a lot easier.
>Message-ID: <1992Jan17.173905.11727@fwi.uva.nl>
>Date: 17 Jan 92 17:39:05 GMT
>Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl
>Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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Have you been plagued by long waits when your NIS server is rebooted?
READ ON!
Sun has a patch, but the README says:
********************* WARNING ******************************
This is a new version of ypbind that never uses the NIS
binding file to cache the servers binding. This will have
the effect of fixing the current symptom. However, it might
degrade the overall performance of the system when the
server is available. This is most likely to happen on an
overloaded server, which will cause the network to produce
a broadcast storm.
*************************************************************
Therefor, I have produced another fix.
o What goes wrong.
When the NIS server is rebooted, ypserv will obtain different ports
to listen for RPC requests. All clients will continue to use the old
binding they obtained earlier. The NIS server will send ICMP dst unreachable
messages for the RPC requests that arrive at the old port. These ICMPs
are dropped on the floor and the client code will continue sending the
requests until the timer has expired. The small fix at the end of this
message will pick up these ICMP messages and deliver them to the RPC layer.
o Before and after.
I've tested this on some machines and this is the result:
(kill and restart ypserv on the server)
original% time ypmatch user passwd
user:....
0.040u 0.090s 2:35.64 0.0% 0+126k 0+0io 0pf+0w (155 seconds elapsed time)
fixedhost% time ypmatch user passwd
user:....
0.050u 0.050s 0:10.20 0.9% 0+136k 0+0io 0pf+0w (10 seconds elapsed time)
Rebinding is almost instantaneous.
o Other benefits.
RPC calls that use UDP as transport will no longer time out but
will abort much sooner. (E.g., the remote host is unreachable or
111/udp is filtered by an intermediate router)
