On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Stephan Müller wrote: > On 17.12.2009, Davide Libenzi <davi...@xmailserver.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am starting to use xmail on an embedded system based on ARM. Due to the > > > limited space available, I had to make IPv6 and SSL support a compile > > > time option. > > > > > > Essentially, I added a bunch of ifdefs around the problematic code. There > > > are not that many though. > > > > > > Do you want to have these patches? > > > > I will not merge them, but you can send them in if you like. Better yet, > > is if you post a link, which I can add to the XMail home page. > > Keep in mind though, that the new random tmp file name generation is based > > in part upon RAND_pseudo_bytes(), which is part of OpenSSL. > > Hm, is it possible to refrain from OpenSSL? > > The best solution IMHO (because it uses an atomic operation) is mkdir. > > 1. register signal handler for signals 0, 1, 2, 3, 15 which removes /tmp/xmail > > 2. mkdir(/tmp/xmail) with permissions 755 at the startup of xmail > > 3. return /tmp/xmail/<sometmpfile> during the operation of xmail
It'd be possible something similar, yes. But this will need to be optional, since existing configs cannot be broken. So a stronger temp file names generation is still necessary for legacy systems. You can patch-out the call in your code if you like, or provide a trivial rand()-based implementation. - Davide
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