return 0;
}
+bool uid_is_valid(uid_t uid) {
+
+ /* Some libc APIs use UID_INVALID as special placeholder */
+ if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFFFFFF)
+ return false;
+
+ /* A long time ago UIDs where 16bit, hence explicitly avoid the 16bit -1 too */
+ if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFF)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
int parse_uid(const char *s, uid_t* ret_uid) {
unsigned long ul = 0;
uid_t uid;
if ((unsigned long) uid != ul)
return -ERANGE;
- /* Some libc APIs use UID_INVALID as special placeholder */
- if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFFFFFF)
- return -ENXIO;
-
- /* A long time ago UIDs where 16bit, hence explicitly avoid the 16bit -1 too */
- if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFF)
- return -ENXIO;
+ if (!uid_is_valid(uid))
+ return -ENXIO; /* we return ENXIO instead of EINVAL
+ * here, to make it easy to distuingish
+ * invalid numeric uids invalid
+ * strings. */
if (ret_uid)
*ret_uid = uid;
if (master < 0)
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ if (unlockpt(master) < 0)
+ _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+
cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&mh);
cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;