sendmail and getpeername() on fd 0
2007-12-25 9:55:00
> while fiddling with the sendmail setups, I noticed some odd behaviour
> with getpeername(0, ...) both on SunOS and Solaris. sendmail's idea
> of how this should turn out is a return value of -1 and an errno of
> ENOTSOCK, which is caught (in sendmail's src/daemon.c:getauthinfo(),
> if you want to check there) and causes the $_ macro (verified sender)
> to be set to "user@localhost" [...] Now watch what the SUNs do:
(Short short version: SunOS correctly returns ENOTSOCK except for
'cat File | Prog', then sometimes returns OK, sometimes ENOTCONN
= socket not connected; Solaris 2.4 correctly returns ENOTSOCK for
'Prog < File', but errno's not mentioned in the manpage for 'Prog'
and 'cat File | Prog'.)
Addendum:
I forgot to mention that sendmail seems to catch the SunOS/cat|Prog/
OK case correctly, too, because the "remote host name" returned has
length 0. Plus two other special cases I didn't see actually occur
in my tests (maybe meant for other OSes or uses).
Solution:
Upgrade to 2.6 if possible.
If you have to stay with SunOS, do '(cat File ; sleep 1) | Prog'
(or longer) instead of 'cat File | Prog'.
(Live with it else.)
Background info:
Sockets were in fact broken WRT this kind of situation in pre-2.6
Solaris; SUN redid sockets for 2.6 more or less from scratch, and
I received confirmation that my test programs run fine on 2.6
through 2.8.
The problem with SunOS is best summarized by Per Hedeland:
> In SunOS 4, as in most if not all BSD or BSD-derived Unices, pipes are
> implemented using socketpair(), i.e. they are in fact sockets. The
> reason you get the ENOTCONN is probably because by the time sendmail
> gets around to do the getpeername(), 'cat' has already written its
> output and exited - i.e. the socket is no longer connected. This also
> means that sendmail AFAIK can't reliably find out what was at the other
> end or that the socket was in fact "local" [...].
Thanks to:
Kari E. Hurtta
John Beck
Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
Per Hedeland
Kind regards,
J. Bern
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