Bridge relays can use it to add a "bridge-distribution-request" line
to their bridge descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their
bridge address to be given out.
Implements tickets 18329.
Fixes bug 23908; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc when we made the keypin
failure message really long.
Backport from 0.3.2's 771fb7e7ba,
where arma said "get rid of the scary 256-byte-buf landmine".
It _should_ work, and I don't see a reason that it wouldn't, but
just in case, add a 10 second timer to make tor die with an
assertion failure if it's supposed to exit but it doesn't.
This function was never about 'finishing' the event loop, but rather
about making sure that the code outside the event loop would be run
at least once.
Sometimes when we call exit(), it's because the process is
completely hopeless: openssl has a broken AES-CTR implementation, or
the clock is in the 1960s, or something like that.
But sometimes, we should return cleanly from tor_main() instead, so
that embedders can keep embedding us and start another Tor process.
I've gone through all the exit() and _exit() calls to annotate them
with "exit ok" or "XXXX bad exit" -- the next step will be to fix
the bad exit()s.
First step towards 23848.
At first, we put the tor_git_revision constant in tor_main.c, so
that we wouldn't have to recompile config.o every time the git
revision changed. But putting it there had unintended side effect
of forcing every program that wanted to link libor.a (including
test, test-slow, the fuzzers, the benchmarks, etc) to declare their
own tor_git_revision instance.
That's not very nice, especially since we want to start supporting
others who want to link against Tor (see 23846).
So, create a new git_revision.c file that only contains this
constant, and remove the duplicated boilerplate from everywhere
else.
Part of implementing ticket 23845.
This feature should help programs that want to launch and manage a
Tor process, as well as programs that want to launch and manage a
Tor instance in a separate thread. Right now, they have to open a
controlport, and then connect to it, with attendant authentication
issues. This feature allows them to just start with an
authenticated connection.
Bug 23900.
