Hello! Please, when you have the time provide some feedback about this patchset and if some changes are needed to be applied upstream: https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2025-April/091431.html
Thank you! On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM Radoslav Kolev <[email protected]> wrote: > For a long time Linux has supported using dgram sockets > to avoid requiring root privileges or a setuid ping binary. > This patch is inspired by a patch Alpine linux carries > ( > https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/main/busybox/0015-ping-make-ping-work-without-root-privileges.patch > ) > but with a number of improvements: > > * The rootless option is configurable, and disabled by default, so no > concerns about size increase for those that don't want/need it > * The original patch only works if the fancy output option is enabled > * With fancy option enabled, it always returned 42 as the ttl value > for ipv4 > > I'm currently doing some more test, but so far it seems to work well > for me. Any comments/suggestions/testing is welcome. > > Best regards, > Radoslav > > Radoslav Kolev (2): > Add optional rootless ping support > Add using_dgram as member of globals struct > > networking/ping.c | 346 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 253 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.47.1 > >
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