SMALL is needed to reduce storage requirements on ramdisks. RA DNS support has been mentioned before, I think there was some sort of plan to have the kernel record the information and allow userland to retrieve it but I don't recall the details.
Certainly rtsol is not required in order for router advertisements to work and the addresses will need to be updated whenever they change, not just when rtsol is run. On 21 September 2014 00:09:27 BST, Charles Musser <cmus...@sonic.net> wrote: > >On Sep 20, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Sebastian Benoit <benoit-li...@fb12.de> >wrote: > >> Charles Musser(cmus...@sonic.net) on 2014.09.20 14:44:45 -0700: >>> + /* >>> + * XXX validate that domain name only contains valid characters >>> + * for two reasons: 1) correctness, 2) we do not want to pass >>> + * possible malicious, unescaped characters like `` to a script >>> + * or program that could be exploited that way. >>> + */ >>> + >>> + return (src - src_origin); >> >> this alone is a reason why this diff is wrong. >Yeah, that is bad. I'll add a validator. >> >> /Benno >> >> (and removing all of the ifndef SMALL is another) >I thought the removal was reasonable (SMALL didn't totally disappear, >BTW). What's the rationale for keeping them as is? More to to point, >what is SMALL accomplishing in specific case of the rtsol program? -- Sent from a phone, please excuse the formatting.
