There are several reasons for this:
- MacOS/X doesn't support polling the tap device using kqueue, requiring a
workaround to fall back to select().
- On Windows only sockets are properly handled, therefore tinc uses a second
thread that does a blocking ReadFile() on the TAP-Win32/64 device. However,
this does not mix well with libevent.
- Libevent, event just the core, is quite large, and although it is easy to get
and install on many platforms, it can be a burden.
- Libev is more lightweight and seems technically superior, but it doesn't
abstract away all the platform differences (for example, async events are not
supported on Windows).
The tree functions were never used on the connection_tree, a list is more appropriate.
Also be more paranoid about connections disappearing while traversing the list.
Struct outgoing_ts and connection_ts were depending too much on each other,
causing lots of problems, especially the reuse of a connection_t. Now, whenever
a connection is closed it is immediately removed from the list of connections
and destroyed.
Proxy type "exec" can be used to have an external script or binary set
up an outgoing connection. Standard input and output will be used to
exchange data with the external command. The variables REMOTEADDRESS and
REMOTEPORT are set to the intended destination address and port.
When the Proxy option is used, outgoing connections will be made via the
specified proxy. There is no support for authentication methods or for having
the proxy forward incoming connections, and there is no attempt to proxy UDP.
This allows tincctl to receive log messages from a running tincd,
independent of what is logged to syslog or to file. Tincctl can receive
debug messages with an arbitrary level.
The code introduced in commit 41a05f59ba is not
needed anymore, since tinc has been able to handle UDP packets from a different
source address than those of the TCP packets since 1.0.10. When using multiple
BindToAddress statements, this code does not make sense anymore, we do want the
kernel to choose the source address on its own.
Scripts called by tinc would inherit its open filedescriptors. This could
be a problem if other long-running daemons are started from those scripts,
if those daemons would not close all filedescriptors before going into the
background.
Problem found and solution suggested by Nick Hibma.
Every operating system seems to have its own, slightly different way to disable
packet fragmentation. Emit a compiler warning when no suitable way is found.
On OpenBSD, it seems impossible to do it for IPv4.
When the HUP signal is sent while some outgoing connections have not been made
yet, or are being retried, a NULL pointer could be dereferenced resulting in
tinc crashing. We fix this by more careful handling of outgoing_ts, and by
deleting all connections that have not been fully activated yet at the HUP
signal is received.
Git's log and blame tools were used to find out which files had significant
contributions from authors who sent in patches that were applied before we used
git.
This feature is not necessary anymore since we have tools like valgrind today
that can catch stack overflow errors before they make a backtrace in gdb
impossible.
