the hostentdb introduced between 4.2 and 4.3
(via af5c6f0c6a )
had several issues:
- it caused breakage on FreeBSD and was commented out there
- prevented usage of the hostdb when proxy_dns was turned off
(issue #42)
- required dynamic memory allocation which was accessed from several
threads
- wouldnt reflect changes to the hosts file made during program run
the only sensible solution is to remove the hostentdb and replace it
with a home-grown hosts parser (we can't use gethostent() since
that would mess up the gethostent()-state from different threads).
the new parser used here is deliberately held simple and only meant
to provide the user with means to reference hardcoded ipv4 addresses
via his hosts file.
fixes#42
some broken programs like pulseaudio rely on LD_PRELOAD hacks to function,
if we just override the environment variable, those will stop working.
simplified version of patch suggested by @hexchain
closes#35
the strncpy function is both dangerous and slow.
dangerous because it doesn't do what the naive programmer expects
(bounded strcpy), and slow because it pads the entire bufsize
with zeroes.
sys/poll.h is a glibc legacy alias for poll.h.
the latter is specified by POSIX, the former not.
on glibc one of them just includes the other so it doesnt hurt.
it is generally invalid to use a DNS name since DNS subsystem
is only available once connected to the proxy; because
DNS is done server-side.
closes#19
if a configuration file can be accessed by proxychains but there is a
mandatory access control (or other) block on the target appication's
ability to read that file, fopen() creates a NULL pointer that will
cause a segfault in fgets().
closes#17
Signed-off-by: mancha <mancha1@hush.com>
especially mentioning that proxychains is a HACK so it may not work.
it is a hack because it modifies existing programs in a way not
originally intended by its authors.
additionally it relies on a very complicated and fragile dynamic
linker infrastructure which can easily break, as is the case with
glibc-linked programs that use dlopen() (see issue #10).
