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Liliana Marie Prikler 01b686b701 Allow null bytes in UNIX sockets.
The current socket address constructors all assume, that there are no
null bytes in the socket path.  This assumption does not hold in Linux,
which uses an initial null byte to demarcate abstract sockets and
ignores all further null bytes [1].

[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html

* libguile/sockets.c (scm_fill_sockaddr)[HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN_SOCKETS]:
Use scm_to_locale_stringn to construct c_address.
Use memcpy instead of strcpy and calculate size directly instead of
using SUN_LEN.
(_scm_from_sockaddr): Copy the entire path up to the limits imposed by
addr_size.
* test-suite/tests/00-socket.test: ("make-socket-address"): Add case for
abstract unix sockets.
("AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM"): Add abstract socket versions of bind, listen,
connect and accept.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
2022-06-16 09:54:29 +02:00
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lalr remove duplicate when/unless definitions 2012-01-20 21:16:50 +01:00
standalone 'primitive-fork' closes and recreates the current thread's 'sleep_pipe'. 2021-05-08 21:39:15 +02:00
test-suite Test suite compile-and-eval tests run -O0 and -O2 2020-05-11 11:05:30 +02:00
tests Allow null bytes in UNIX sockets. 2022-06-16 09:54:29 +02:00
ChangeLog-2008 Rename ChangeLog' files to ChangeLog-2008'. 2008-09-12 21:49:58 +02:00
guile-test Minor expansion of guile-test comments 2017-03-01 10:40:52 +01:00
Makefile.am Move copy-tree to (ice-9 copy-tree); deprecate main binding 2020-09-10 21:57:21 +02:00
README Revert "Note need for subscription to bug-guile@gnu.org." 2008-12-10 19:07:14 +00:00

This directory contains some tests for Guile, and some generic test
support code.

To run these tests, you will need a version of Guile more recent than
15 Feb 1999 --- the tests use the (ice-9 and-let*) and (ice-9
getopt-long) modules, which were added to Guile around then.

For information about how to run the test suite, read the usage
instructions in the comments at the top of the guile-test script.

You can reference the file `lib.scm' from your own code as the module
(test-suite lib); it also has comments at the top and before each
function explaining what's going on.

Please write more Guile tests, and send them to bug-guile@gnu.org.
We'll merge them into the distribution.  All test suites must be
licensed for our use under the GPL, but I don't think I'm going to
collect assignment papers for them.



Some test suite philosophy:

GDB has an extensive test suite --- around 6300 tests.  Every time the
test suite catches a bug, it's great.

GDB is so complicated that folks are often unable to get a solid
understanding of the code before making a change --- we just don't
have time.  You'll see people say things like, "Here's a fix for X; it
doesn't cause any regressions."  The subtext is, I made a change that
looks reasonable, and the test suite didn't complain, so it must be
okay.

I think this is terrible, because it suggests that the writer is using
the test suite as a substitute for having a rock-solid explanation of
why their changes are correct.  The problem is that any test suite is
woefully incomplete.  Diligent reasoning about code can catch corner
conditions or limitations that no test suite will ever find.



Jim's rule for test suites:

Every test suite failure should be a complete, mysterious surprise,
never a possibility you were prepared for.  Any other attitude
indicates that you're using the test suite as a crutch, which you need
only because your understanding is weak.