commit 31800f4018275d83c2f7db8f725b1fca1ee97360 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Dec 18 14:35:49 2011 -0800

fix: disabling localization for system commands

Setting LANG to C to disable localization for subcommands like netstat. This is important since we use words in it (like ESTABLISHED) to filter the results. Caught by Stephan Seitz. --- src/starter.py | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/starter.py b/src/starter.py index 3d74315..40c23f7 100644 --- a/src/starter.py +++ b/src/starter.py @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ PRIVATE_TORRC_ENTRIES = ["HashedControlPassword", "Bridge", "HiddenServiceDir"] TOR_ROOT_NOTICE = "Tor is currently running with root permissions. This is not a good idea and shouldn't be necessary. See the 'User UID' option from Tor's man page for an easy method of reducing its permissions after startup." ARM_ROOT_NOTICE = "Arm is currently running with root permissions. This is not a good idea, and will still work perfectly well if it's run with the same user as Tor (ie, starting with "sudo -u %s arm")."

+# Makes subcommands provide us with English results (this is important so we +# can properly parse it). + +os.putenv("LANG", "C") + def allowConnectionTypes(): """ This provides a tuple with booleans indicating if we should or shouldn't