Hi Hiltjo, Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > > I have used quark for this, but found it annoying, that I have to > > provide a host and port and run it as root (the noroot patch doesn't > > always work either, because the use of fork(2) is restricted). It seems > > like others have similar complaints about quark [2]. > > You can simply build a version of quark with chroot(2) and privdrop commented > out. > fork(2) is not restricted, but chroot(2) and setgid(2) is.
This is exactly what the noroot patch does: Removing chroot(2), setgid(2), setuid(2) and setgroups(2). I didn't make up the behaviour I described. I'm unable to reproduce the error right now, but it occurs occasionally on an Ubuntu system I use. I think the exact error is "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable". Maybe the problem could be resolved using ulimit, but I haven't tried that yet. > It's not much lines of code by itself, but it is not minimalist I think. > > [...] > > For port < 1024 you'd still need root or namespace priviledges usually. > > quark supports GET and HEAD requests and supports common byte-ranges too. I'm getting the feeling that I offended you. This was not my intention. I don't want to discredit quark; it has use cases, which cannot be satisfied by the tool I presented. statico is better suited for some use cases that I frequently encounter, but that doesn't mean it's a replacement for quark. Best regards, Richard Ulmer
