In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Two places in passt need to read files line by line (one parsing
resolv.conf, the other parsing /proc/net/*. They can't use fgets()
because in glibc that can allocate memory. Instead they use an
implementation line_read() in util.c. This has some problems:
* It has two completely separate modes of operation, one buffering
and one not, the relation between these and how they're activated
is subtle and confusing
* At least in non-buffered mode, it will mishandle an empty line,
folding them onto the start of the next non-empty line
* In non-buffered mode it will use lseek() which prevents using this
on non-regular files (we don't need that at present, but it's a
surprising limitation)
* It has a lot of difficult to read pointer mangling
Add a new cleaner implementation of allocation-free line-by-line
reading in lineread.c. This one always buffers, using a state
structure to keep track of what we need. This is larger than I'd
like, but it turns out handling all the edge cases of line-by-line
reading in C is surprisingly hard.
This just adds the code, subsequent patches will change the existing
users of line_read() to the new implementation.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
