On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:28:24AM +0100, FRIGN wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:42:17 +0100
> Ivan Delalande <colona_AT_ycc.fr> wrote:
>
> > Change the behavior of docroot, which is now used as a prefix path for
> > all file operations related to static files. And add chrootdir, which is
> > just the old docroot behavior and allows to control the path into which
> > quark will chroot.
> >
> > Not having properly distinct configuration variables for chroot,
> > document root and CGI root was specially annoying since commit 2822488
> > which allowed users to retrieve the CGI script or binary by just
> > guessing its path, since quark was chrooting into docroot before
> > anything else, and thus the CGI script/binary was in the user accessible
> > path.
> >
> > This is implemented by moving the reqbuf buffer in the middle of a
> > bigger buffer, reqpath. That buffer contains the value of docroot at its
> > beginning and reqbuf simply points to the first byte after this value.
>
> Hey Ivan,
>
> thanks for your patch! I'll take a close look at it as soon as I have
> the time (probably this evening).
> You may want to note that current development has been happening in a
> branch[0] by Hiltjo Posthuma converting quark away from an accept-based
> infrastructure to a stack-based one.
> Hiltjo told me he was almost done with the changes, so as soon as he
> finishes this masterpiece, I'll merge it into mainline.
> If you like you can check out if the problem still exists in the heavily
> modified branch.
Oh, that’s interesting, he also has other features I also need and was
planning to write patches for. :)
From the current state of his repository, it seems that the specific
problem fixed by my patch still exists. However I think it would be way
easier to first merge his changes, and I can then re-do my patch.
--
Ivan "Colona" Delalande
Received on Sat Nov 29 2014 - 09:47:54 CET