GCC's interpretation of the C99 aliasing rules, to be charitable,
creates a dialect of C intended for a better programmers than I am
certain of my ability to be in all times. I just spent 2 hours
tracking down a platform-hyperspecific libevent bug that turned out to
be because of this, and darned if I ever want to do *that* again.
One of Linus's recent rants will give you a picture of why GCC's
behavior here can lead to fun surprises in your binaries:
http://lwn.net/Articles/316126/
svn:r18351
This resolves bug 526, wherein we would crash if the following
events occurred in this order:
A: We're an OR, and one of our nameservers goes down.
B: We launch a probe to it to see if it's up again. (We do this hourly
in steady-state.)
C: Before the probe finishes, we reconfigure our nameservers,
usually because we got a SIGHUP and the resolve.conf file changed.
D: The probe reply comes back, or times out. (There is a five-second
window for this, after B has happens).
IOW, if one of our nameservers is down and our nameserver
configuration has changed, there were 5 seconds per hour where HUPing
the server was unsafe.
Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Too obscure to backport.
svn:r18306
This fixes the last known case of bug 891, which could happen if two
hosts, A and B, disagree about how long a circuit has been open,
because of clock drift of some kind. Host A would then mark the
connection as is_bad_for_new_circs when it got too old and open a new
connection. In between when B receives a NETINFO cell on the new
conn, and when B receives a conn cell on the new circuit, the new
circuit will seem worse to B than the old one, and so B will mark it
as is_bad_for_new_circs in the second or third loop of
connection_or_group_set_badness().
Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Bug found by rovv.
Not a backport candidate: the bug is too obscure and the fix too tricky.
svn:r18303
crypto_global_init gets called. Also have it be crypto_global_init
that calls crypto_seed_rng, so we are not dependent on OpenSSL's
RAND_poll in these fiddly cases.
Should fix bug 907. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6. Backport candidate.
svn:r18210
are stored when the --enable-local-appdata option is configured. This
changes the Windows path from %APPDATA% to a host local
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\ path (aka,
LOCAL_APPDATA).
Patch from coderman.
svn:r18122
Unfortunately, old Libevents don't _put_ a version in their headers, so
this can get a little tricky. Fortunately, the only binary-compatibility
issue we care about is the size of struct event. Even more fortunately,
Libevent 2.0 will let us keep binary compatiblity forever by letting us
decouple ourselves from the structs, if we like.
svn:r18014
five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
svn:r17993
cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
svn:r17984
using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Bugfix
on 0.0.2pre8.
svn:r17970
When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
svn:r17945
descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
svn:r17920
discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
svn:r17917
Nick Mathewson
Roger Dingledine
Karsten Loesing
Peter Palfrader
Mike Perry