savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot

Ed Maste emaste at phaedrus.sandvine.ca
Wed Jun 15 14:14:57 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:36:00PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> Do you understand the fix?  How does lying in printheader() fix anything?
> Moving the call to getbounds() back to the original location is the "fix"
> but then it negates -vv.  We shouldn't lie in printheader().

Fair enough, on dwhite's suggestion here's another try that splits the
increment-and-write out from getbounds() so that the bounds value can
be shown with -vv.

--
Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated
-------------- next part --------------
--- savecore.c.orig	2005-06-13 16:19:41.000000000 -0400
+++ savecore.c	2005-06-15 09:41:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -145,35 +145,36 @@
 
 	if ((fp = fopen("bounds", "r")) == NULL) {
 		syslog(LOG_WARNING, "unable to open bounds file, using 0");
-		goto newfile;
+		return (ret);
 	}
 
 	if (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, fp) == NULL) {
 		syslog(LOG_WARNING, "unable to read from bounds, using 0");
 		fclose(fp);
-		goto newfile;
+		return (ret);
 	}
 
 	errno = 0;
 	ret = (int)strtol(buf, NULL, 10);
 	if (ret == 0 && (errno == EINVAL || errno == ERANGE))
 		syslog(LOG_WARNING, "invalid value found in bounds, using 0");
+	return (ret);
+}
 
-newfile:
+static void
+writebounds(int bounds) {
+	FILE *fp;
 
 	if ((fp = fopen("bounds", "w")) == NULL) {
 		syslog(LOG_WARNING, "unable to write to bounds file: %m");
-		goto done;
+		return;
 	}
 
 	if (verbose)
-		printf("bounds number: %d\n", ret);
+		printf("bounds number: %d\n", bounds);
 
-	fprintf(fp, "%d\n", (ret + 1));
+	fprintf(fp, "%d\n", bounds);
 	fclose(fp);
-
-done:
-	return (ret);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -373,6 +374,8 @@
 		goto closefd;
 	}
 
+	writebounds(bounds+1);
+
 	sprintf(buf, "info.%d", bounds);
 
 	/*


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