characters was reversed, resulting in some network appliances, including
at least some NAS devices from Ascend, not recognizing our finger(1)
request.
PR: 45914
Submitted by: J R Matthews <jrm@delta-e.com.au>
Approved by: re (rwatson)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Add some constness to avoid some warnings.
Remove use register keyword.
Deal with missing/unneeded extern/prototypes.
Some minor type changes/casts to avoid warnings.
Reviewed by: md5
of the recent WARNS commits. The idea is:
1) FreeBSD id tags should follow vendor tags.
2) Vendor tags should not be compiled (though copyrights probably should).
3) There should be no blank line between including cdefs and __FBSDIF.
* if run by root (or root process) drop privs
* ensure output size is not infinate (net finger only)
* ensure output lines are not infinate in length (net finger only)
* do not allow finger client to run longer than 3 minutes (net finger only)
implementations to leave the client side open until the server closes.
While this is totally idiotic, it seems as if some servers actually require
it (e.g., the one at mit.mit.edu). So, we bow to the weight of the bogus
standard and disable the initial close. Hopefully now fetch(1) can serve
the role of T/TCP demonstration application.
