Restore full support for krb5 traces in debugging #52
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Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
The proccess stderr may be redirected to a socket or a pipe by the parent process (which is what systemd does for example). When that happen we can't simply pass a valid path to stderr so that libkrb5 can send the tracing via the KRB5_TRACE environment variable to a our stderr, passing /dev/stderr in this case will just result in an open error and tracing output going nowhere. To handle this we create our own fifo to pass to libkrb5 and then we create a thread that reads the incoming data and pipes it back to the stderr we've been given by our parent. Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
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In some case /dev/stderr does not point to a path that can be opened with open()
This is the case for example where stderr is redirect to a pipe/socket/fifo.
Systemd init does this in order to capture the standard error in the logs for example.
To deal with this case we crate our own redirecting fifo.
Fixes #44