openntpd-openbsd

Source code pulled from OpenBSD for OpenNTPD. The place to contribute to this code is via the OpenBSD CVS tree.

deraadt 48ecc0761d the main process must chdir to /, since it cannot have daemon() do the job at startup. After much anguish I accept dlg's solution of chdir for the problem ("starting ntpd on a filesystem I want to unmount"), but we cannot change the main-process daemon() call. Why? Because the ntpd privsep design predates more modern designs where the config file is parsed once, and configuration marshalled to the fork+exec children. Instead each ntpd process re-parses the config, and if we chdir before fork+exec startup, it will move the basedir causing -f "relativepath" to fail. discussed with florian	6 years ago
src	the main process must chdir to /, since it cannot have daemon() do the	6 years ago

deraadt 48ecc0761d the main process must chdir to /, since it cannot have daemon() do the

job at startup.  After much anguish I accept dlg's solution of chdir
for the problem ("starting ntpd on a filesystem I want to unmount"),
but we cannot change the main-process daemon() call.  Why?  Because
the ntpd privsep design predates more modern designs where the config
file is parsed once, and configuration marshalled to the fork+exec
children.  Instead each ntpd process re-parses the config, and if
we chdir before fork+exec startup, it will move the basedir causing
-f "relativepath" to fail.
discussed with florian

6 years ago

src

the main process must chdir to /, since it cannot have daemon() do the

6 years ago