Bump version to 1.28.4

[oweals/busybox.git] / NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst

diff --git a/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst b/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
index 063d7cd48359407cd8fd685dfee3a9ee6ea0ae84..72c33ddd76e1871b186354c80911caf1d753cbb8 100644 (file)
--- a/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
+++ b/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ for users to keep it waiting for many minutes, whereas running "rm" in shell
 is very typical, and speeding up this common use via NOEXEC is useful.
 IOW: rm is "interactive", but not "longterm".
 
+Interesting example of an applet which can be NOFORK but if not,
+then should not be NOEXEC, is "usleep". As NOFORK, it amount to simply
+nanosleep()ing in the calling program (usually shell). No memory wasted.
+But if ran as NOEXEC, it would create a potentially long-term process,
+which would be taking more memory because it did not exec
+and did not free much of the copied memory of the parent
+(COW helps with this only as long as parent doesn't modify its memory).
+
 
 [ - NOFORK
 [[ - NOFORK
@@ -136,7 +144,7 @@ flash_unlock - hardware
 flashcp - hardware
 flock - spawner, changes state (file locks), let's play safe and not be noexec
 fold - noexec. runner
-free - noexec. nofork candidate(struct globals, needs to close /proc/meminfo fd)
+free - NOFORK
 freeramdisk - noexec. leaks: open+ioctl_or_perror_and_die
 fsck - interactive, longterm
 fsck.minix - needs ^C
@@ -158,6 +166,7 @@ hd - noexec. runner
 hdparm - hardware
 head - noexec. runner
 hexdump - noexec. runner
+hexedit - interactive, longterm
 hostid - NOFORK
 hostname - noexec. talks to network (hostname -d may query DNS)
 httpd - daemon
@@ -178,16 +187,16 @@ insmod - noexec
 install - runner
 ionice - noexec. spawner
 iostat - longterm: "iostat 1" runs indefinitely
-ip - noexec candidate
-ipaddr - noexec candidate
+ip - noexec
+ipaddr - noexec
 ipcalc - noexec. ipcalc -h talks to network
-ipcrm - noexec candidate
-ipcs - noexec candidate
-iplink - noexec candidate
-ipneigh - noexec candidate
-iproute - noexec candidate
-iprule - noexec candidate
-iptunnel - noexec candidate
+ipcrm - noexec
+ipcs - noexec
+iplink - noexec
+ipneigh - noexec
+iproute - noexec
+iprule - noexec
+iptunnel - noexec
 kbd_mode - noexec. leaks: xopen_nonblocking+xioctl
 kill - NOFORK
 killall - NOFORK
@@ -227,6 +236,7 @@ md5sum - noexec. runner
 mdev - daemon
 mesg - NOFORK
 microcom - interactive, longterm
+minips - noexec
 mkdir - NOFORK
 mkdosfs - needs ^C
 mke2fs - needs ^C
@@ -256,6 +266,7 @@ nmeter - longterm
 nohup - noexec. spawner
 nproc - NOFORK
 ntpd - daemon
+nuke - noexec
 od - runner
 openvt - longterm: spawns a child and waits for it
 partprobe - noexec. leaks: open+ioctl_or_perror_and_die(BLKRRPART)
@@ -275,8 +286,8 @@ poweroff - rare
 powertop - interactive, longterm
 printenv - NOFORK
 printf - NOFORK
-ps - looks for AT_CLKTCK elf aux vector, therefore can't be noexec
-pscan - longterm
+ps - noexec
+pscan - talks to network
 pstree - noexec
 pwd - NOFORK
 pwdx - NOFORK
@@ -292,6 +303,7 @@ remove-shell - noexec. leaks: open+xfunc
 renice - noexec. nofork candidate(uses getpwnam, is that ok?)
 reset - noexec. spawner (execs "stty")
 resize - noexec. changes state (signal handlers)
+resume - noexec
 rev - runner
 rm - noexec. rm -i interactive
 rmdir - NOFORK
@@ -300,6 +312,7 @@ route - talks to network (may query DNS to convert IPs to names)
 rpm - runner
 rpm2cpio - runner
 rtcwake - longterm: puts system to sleep, optimizing this for speed is pointless
+run-init - spawner, rare, changes state (oh yes), execing may be important to free binary's inode
 run-parts - longterm
 runlevel - noexec. can be nofork if "endutxent()" is called unconditionally, but too rare to bother?
 runsv - daemon
@@ -312,6 +325,7 @@ sendmail - runner
 seq - noexec. runner
 setarch - noexec. spawner
 setconsole - noexec
+setfattr - noexec
 setfont - noexec. leaks a lot of stuff
 setkeycodes - noexec
 setlogcons - noexec
@@ -327,7 +341,7 @@ showkey - interactive, longterm
 shred - runner
 shuf - noexec. runner
 slattach - longterm (may sleep forever), uses bb_common_bufsiz1
-sleep - runner, longterm
+sleep - longterm. Could be nofork, if not the problem of "killall sleep" not killing it.
 smemcap - runner
 softlimit - noexec. spawner
 sort - noexec. runner
@@ -397,7 +411,7 @@ unxz - runner
 unzip - runner
 uptime - noexec. nofork candidate(is getutxent ok?)
 users - noexec. nofork candidate(is getutxent ok?)
-usleep - NOFORK
+usleep - NOFORK. But what about "killall usleep"?
 uudecode - runner
 uuencode - runner
 vconfig - noexec. leaks: xsocket+ioctl_or_perror_and_die