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-import if magellan mkinitrd; it is a fork of redhats mkinitrd-5.0.8 with all magellan patches and features; deprecates magellan-src/mkinitrd

1 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
2 /*
3 * Utility routines.
4 *
5 * create raw socket for icmp protocol test permission
6 * and drop root privileges if running setuid
7 *
8 */
9
10 #include <sys/types.h>
11 #include <netdb.h>
12 #include <sys/socket.h>
13 #include <errno.h>
14 #include <unistd.h>
15 #include "libbb.h"
16
17 int create_icmp_socket(void)
18 {
19 struct protoent *proto;
20 int sock;
21
22 proto = getprotobyname("icmp");
23 /* if getprotobyname failed, just silently force
24 * proto->p_proto to have the correct value for "icmp" */
25 if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW,
26 (proto ? proto->p_proto : 1))) < 0) { /* 1 == ICMP */
27 if (errno == EPERM)
28 bb_error_msg_and_die(bb_msg_perm_denied_are_you_root);
29 else
30 bb_perror_msg_and_die(bb_msg_can_not_create_raw_socket);
31 }
32
33 /* drop root privs if running setuid */
34 xsetuid(getuid());
35
36 return sock;
37 }