Run Emacs on startup on system with no XServer - linux

I want to run Emacs after logging into bash as user.
But also I want to be able to jump back into the bash prompt if I press CTRL-Z.
I have tried a couple of settings of .bashrc and .profile:
emacs
eval 'emacs'
bash -c emacs
exec emacs -nw
The problem is that all of this variants make CTRL-Z drop me not to bash prompt , but to empty stdin, like bash prompt was not loaded yet.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Thanks to Mark Plotnick, who answered below in comments. Using ioctl you can write to own tty.
c program:
#include "unistd.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "sys/stat.h"
#include "sys/types.h"
#include "fcntl.h"
#include "termios.h"
#include "sys/ioctl.h"
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
if (argc >= 3)
{
int fd = open (argv[1], O_RDWR);
if (fd)
{
char * cmd = argv[2];
while(*cmd)
ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, cmd++);
if (argc >= 4)
ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, "\r");
return 0;
}
else
printf("could'n open file\n");
}
else
printf("wrong args\n");
return -1;
}
compile:
gcc my_ioctl.c -o my_ioctl
very end of .profile:
~/my_ioctl $(tty) emacs rr
(my c program does not care about what 3rd arg's actually is).

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mknod() not creating named pipe

I'm trying to create a FIFO named pipe using the mknod() command:
int main() {
char* file="pipe.txt";
int state;
state = mknod(file, S_IFIFO & 0777, 0);
printf("%d",state);
return 0;
}
But the file is not created in my current directory. I tried listing it by ls -l . State returns -1.
I found similar questions here and on other sites and I've tried the solution that most suggested:
int main() {
char* file="pipe.txt";
int state;
unlink(file);
state = mknod(file, S_IFIFO & 0777, 0);
printf("%d",state);
return 0;
}
This made no difference though and the error remains. Am I doing something wrong here or is there some sort of system intervention which is causing this problem?
Help.. Thanks in advance
You are using & to set the file type instead of |. From the docs:
The file type for path is OR'ed into the mode argument, and the
application shall select one of the following symbolic
constants...
Try this:
state = mknod(file, S_IFIFO | 0777, 0);
Because this works:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main() {
char* file="pipe.txt";
int state;
unlink(file);
state = mknod(file, S_IFIFO | 0777, 0);
printf("state %d\n", state);
return 0;
}
Compile it:
gcc -o fifo fifo.c
Run it:
$ strace -e trace=mknod ./fifo
mknod("pipe.txt", S_IFIFO|0777) = 0
state 0
+++ exited with 0 +++
See the result:
$ ls -l pipe.txt
prwxrwxr-x. 1 lars lars 0 Jul 16 12:54 pipe.txt

Difficulty in using execve

I am trying to execute "word count" command on file given by absolute path - "/home/aaa/xxzz.txt" . I have closed the stdin so as to take input from file but the program doesn't give any output .
Also if I add some statement after "execve" command, it is also getting executed . Shouldn't the program exit after execve ?
int main()
{
char *envp[]={NULL };
int fd=open("/home/aaa/xxzz.txt",O_RDONLY);
close(0);
dup(fd);
char *param[]={ "/bin/wc",NULL } ;
execve("/bin/wc",param,envp);
}
Probably wc does not live in /bin (except for some systems which symlink that to /usr/bin, because wc normally lives in the latter). If I change the path in your example to /usr/bin/wc, it works for me:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int
main()
{
char *envp[] = {NULL};
int fd = open("/home/aaa/xxzz.txt", O_RDONLY);
close(0);
dup(fd);
char *program = "/usr/bin/wc";
char *param[] = {program,NULL};
execve(program, param, envp);
}

Detach a linux process from pseudo-tty, but keep the tty running?

I want to debug a console linux application with 2 xterm windows: one window used for gdb and another used for the application (e.g. mc).
What I do now is run 'tty && sleep 1024d' in the second xterm window (this gives me its pseudo-tty name) and then run 'tty ' in gdb to redirect the program to that other xterm window. However, GDB warns that it cannot set a controlling terminal and certain minor functions don't work (e.g. handling window resizing), as 'sleep 1024d' is still running on that xterm window.
Any better way to do it (rather than launching the process from the shell and attaching to it from gdb)?
I have somewhat modified the program given in a related bug to store the filename somewhere
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11403
here is an example using it:
$ xterm -e './disowntty ~/tty.tmp' & sleep 1 && gdb --tty $(cat ~/tty.tmp) /usr/bin/links
/* tty;exec disowntty */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
static void
end (const char *msg)
{
perror (msg);
for (;;)
pause ();
}
int
main (int argc, const char *argv[])
{
FILE *tty_name_file;
const char *tty_filename;
if (argc <= 1)
return 1;
else
tty_filename = argv[1];
void (*orig) (int signo);
setbuf (stdout, NULL);
orig = signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
if (orig != SIG_DFL)
end ("signal (SIGHUP)");
/* Verify we are the sole owner of the tty. */
if (ioctl (STDIN_FILENO, TIOCSCTTY, 0) != 0)
end ("TIOCSCTTY");
printf("%s %s\n", tty_filename, ttyname(STDIN_FILENO));
tty_name_file = fopen(tty_filename, "w");
fprintf(tty_name_file, "%s\n", ttyname(STDIN_FILENO));
fclose(tty_name_file);
/* Disown the tty. */
if (ioctl (STDIN_FILENO, TIOCNOTTY) != 0)
end ("TIOCNOTTY");
end ("OK, disowned");
return 1;
}

Is there a way can view real process cmdline on linux?

Here is a simple code to fake process name and cmdline on linux:
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NewName "bash"
#define ProcNameMaxLen 16
int main(int argc, char **argv){
int oldlen = strlen(*argv);
char procname[ProcNameMaxLen];
memset(*argv, 0, oldlen);
memccpy(*argv, NewName, 0, oldlen); //modify cmdline
memccpy(procname, NewName, 0, ProcNameMaxLen);
prctl(PR_SET_NAME, procname); //modify procname
sleep(60);
return 0;
}
After run this code I can't view real name by ps,
but something can find in /proc/xxx/exe and /proc/xxx/environ, but so cumbersome.
is there a good way can view real information with all process?
I think this is a big security problem because i usually check process by ps on my server.
way 1: lsof -d txt
Wait more answer...
lsof will tell you the original executable name as it is one of the open files of the malicious process. You can inspect a number of processes using the -p option, or query a single user with the -u option.

Externally disabling signals for a Linux program

On Linux, is it possible to somehow disable signaling for programs externally... that is, without modifying their source code?
Context:
I'm calling a C (and also a Java) program from within a bash script on Linux. I don't want any interruptions for my bash script, and for the other programs that the script launches (as foreground processes).
While I can use a...
trap '' INT
... in my bash script to disable the Ctrl C signal, this works only when the program control happens to be in the bash code. That is, if I press Ctrl C while the C program is running, the C program gets interrupted and it exits! This C program is doing some critical operation because of which I don't want it be interrupted. I don't have access to the source code of this C program, so signal handling inside the C program is out of question.
#!/bin/bash
trap 'echo You pressed Ctrl C' INT
# A C program to emulate a real-world, long-running program,
# which I don't want to be interrupted, and for which I
# don't have the source code!
#
# File: y.c
# To build: gcc -o y y.c
#
# #include <stdio.h>
# int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
# printf("Performing a critical operation...\n");
# for(;;); // Do nothing forever.
# printf("Performing a critical operation... done.\n");
# }
./y
Regards,
/HS
The process signal mask is inherited across exec, so you can simply write a small wrapper program that blocks SIGINT and executes the target:
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
sigset_t sigs;
sigemptyset(&sigs);
sigaddset(&sigs, SIGINT);
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigs, 0);
if (argc > 1) {
execvp(argv[1], argv + 1);
perror("execv");
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <command> [args...]\n", argv[0]);
}
return 1;
}
If you compile this program to noint, you would just execute ./noint ./y.
As ephemient notes in comments, the signal disposition is also inherited, so you can have the wrapper ignore the signal instead of blocking it:
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct sigaction sa = { 0 };
sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
sigaction(SIGINT, &sa, 0);
if (argc > 1) {
execvp(argv[1], argv + 1);
perror("execv");
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <command> [args...]\n", argv[0]);
}
return 1;
}
(and of course for a belt-and-braces approach, you could do both).
The "trap" command is local to this process, never applies to children.
To really trap the signal, you have to hack it using a LD_PRELOAD hook. This is non-trival task (you have to compile a loadable with _init(), sigaction() inside), so I won't include the full code here. You can find an example for SIGSEGV on Phack Volume 0x0b, Issue 0x3a, Phile #0x03.
Alternativlly, try the nohup and tail trick.
nohup your_command &
tail -F nohup.out
I would suggest that your C (and Java) application needs rewriting so that it can handle an exception, what happens if it really does need to be interrupted, power fails, etc...
I that fails, J-16 is right on the money. Does the user need to interract with the process, or just see the output (do they even need to see the output?)
The solutions explained above are not working for me, even by chaining the both commands proposed by Caf.
However, I finally succeeded in getting the expected behavior this way :
#!/bin/zsh
setopt MONITOR
TRAPINT() { print AAA }
print 1
( ./child & ; wait)
print 2
If I press Ctrl-C while child is running, it will wait that it exits, then will print AAA and 2. child will not receive any signals.
The subshell is used to prevent the PID from being shown.
And sorry... this is for zsh though the question is for bash, but I do not know bash enough to provide an equivalent script.
This is example code of enabling signals like Ctrl+C for programs which block it.
fixControlC.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
int sigaddset(sigset_t *set, int signo) {
printf("int sigaddset(sigset_t *set=%p, int signo=%d)\n", set, signo);
return 0;
}
Compile it:
gcc -fPIC -shared -o fixControlC.so fixControlC.c
Run it:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. LD_PRELOAD=fixControlC.so mysqld

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