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/* Copyright (C) 1998 Joshua Sled
   This file is part of LibGTop 1.0.

   Contributed by Joshua Sled <jsled@xcf.berkeley.edu>, July 1998.

   LibGTop is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
   or (at your option) any later version.

   LibGTop is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
   ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
   FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
   for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with LibGTop; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
   Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
   Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

#include <config.h>
#include <glibtop.h>
#include <glibtop/open.h>
#include <glibtop/init_hooks.h>

/* !!! THIS FUNCTION RUNS SUID ROOT - CHANGE WITH CAUTION !!! */

void
glibtop_init_p (glibtop *server, const unsigned long features,
		const unsigned flags)
{
	const _glibtop_init_func_t *init_fkt;

	if (server == NULL)
		glibtop_error_r (NULL, "glibtop_init_p (server == NULL)");

	/* Do the initialization, but only if not already initialized. */

	if ((server->flags & _GLIBTOP_INIT_STATE_SYSDEPS) == 0) {
		glibtop_open_p (server, "glibtop", features, flags);

		for (init_fkt = _glibtop_init_hook_p; *init_fkt; init_fkt++)
			(*init_fkt) (server);

		server->flags |= _GLIBTOP_INIT_STATE_SYSDEPS;
	}
}

void
glibtop_open_p (glibtop *server, const char *program_name,
		const unsigned long features,
		const unsigned flags)
{
#ifdef LIBGTOP_ENABLE_DEBUG
	fprintf (stderr, "DEBUG (%d): glibtop_open_p ()\n", getpid ());
#endif

	/* !!! WE ARE ROOT HERE - CHANGE WITH CAUTION !!! */

	server->machine->uid = getuid ();
	server->machine->euid = geteuid ();
	server->machine->gid = getgid ();
	server->machine->egid = getegid ();

#ifdef __FreeBSD__
	server->os_version_code = __FreeBSD_version;
#endif

	/* Setup machine-specific data */
	server->machine->kd = kvm_open (NULL, NULL, NULL, O_RDONLY, "kvm_open");

	if (server->machine->kd == NULL)
		glibtop_error_io_r (server, "kvm_open");

	/* Drop priviledges. */

	if (setreuid (server->machine->euid, server->machine->uid))
		_exit (1);

	if (setregid (server->machine->egid, server->machine->gid))
		_exit (1);

	/* !!! END OF SUID ROOT PART !!! */

	/* Our effective uid is now those of the user invoking the server,
	 * so we do no longer have any priviledges. */

	/* NOTE: On FreeBSD, we do not need to be suid root, we just need to
	 * be sgid kmem.
	 *
	 * The server will only use setegid() to get back it's priviledges,
	 * so it will fail if it is suid root and not sgid kmem. */
}