Bug 18430 – WRAPPER support in start-stop-daemon

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) 2003-03-29 11:20:58 UTC]

we need to be able to specify a wrapper in an environment variable 
in /etc/conf.d/whatever to cause start-stop-daemon to run the daemon under the 
wrapper. 
for example WRAPPER="systrace -a" for systrace or WRAPPER="run_init" for 
selinux

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-08 09:56:11 UTC]

Zack, mind having a look?  I think this might be a bit beyond my C skills.

[Comment 2 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-04-08 17:12:48 UTC]

Martin, I talked with Method and pebenito in irc, and I'll happily take this one
off your todo list.

[Comment 3 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-04-08 17:15:02 UTC]

Now just waiting for the clear requirements to be posted here, seems there
was still some confusion on exactly what is required here.

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-08 17:52:19 UTC]

Lets say we have an env var SSD_WRAPPER.  Check main() ... just before it
does the exec(whatever), it must:

1)  break SSD_WRAPPER up in parts (if applicable), meaning binary and flags
    ('strace -a' for instance).

2)  Change argv to have argv[0] the binary in SSD_WRAPPER, and move all the
    original stuff in argv up to make space for stuff in SSD_WRAPPER.

3)  Now do the exec(whatever).

Should be a simplification.

[Comment 5 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-05-09 17:32:22 UTC]

Method and I decided to put this on the deep back burner for now.