tailscale/chirp/chirp.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package chirp implements a client to communicate with the BIRD Internet
// Routing Daemon.
package chirp
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"net"
"strings"
"time"
)
const (
// Maximum amount of time we should wait when reading a response from BIRD.
responseTimeout = 10 * time.Second
)
// New creates a BIRDClient.
func New(socket string) (*BIRDClient, error) {
return newWithTimeout(socket, responseTimeout)
}
func newWithTimeout(socket string, timeout time.Duration) (_ *BIRDClient, err error) {
conn, err := net.Dial("unix", socket)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to connect to BIRD: %w", err)
}
defer func() {
if err != nil {
conn.Close()
}
}()
b := &BIRDClient{
socket: socket,
conn: conn,
scanner: bufio.NewScanner(conn),
timeNow: time.Now,
timeout: timeout,
}
// Read and discard the first line as that is the welcome message.
if _, err := b.readResponse(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return b, nil
}
// BIRDClient handles communication with the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon.
type BIRDClient struct {
socket string
conn net.Conn
scanner *bufio.Scanner
timeNow func() time.Time
timeout time.Duration
}
// Close closes the underlying connection to BIRD.
func (b *BIRDClient) Close() error { return b.conn.Close() }
// DisableProtocol disables the provided protocol.
func (b *BIRDClient) DisableProtocol(protocol string) error {
out, err := b.exec("disable %s", protocol)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if strings.Contains(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s: already disabled", protocol)) {
return nil
} else if strings.Contains(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s: disabled", protocol)) {
return nil
}
return fmt.Errorf("failed to disable %s: %v", protocol, out)
}
// EnableProtocol enables the provided protocol.
func (b *BIRDClient) EnableProtocol(protocol string) error {
out, err := b.exec("enable %s", protocol)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if strings.Contains(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s: already enabled", protocol)) {
return nil
} else if strings.Contains(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s: enabled", protocol)) {
return nil
}
return fmt.Errorf("failed to enable %s: %v", protocol, out)
}
// BIRD CLI docs from https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=prog-2.html#ss2.9
// Each session of the CLI consists of a sequence of request and replies,
// slightly resembling the FTP and SMTP protocols.
// Requests are commands encoded as a single line of text,
// replies are sequences of lines starting with a four-digit code
// followed by either a space (if it's the last line of the reply) or
// a minus sign (when the reply is going to continue with the next line),
// the rest of the line contains a textual message semantics of which depends on the numeric code.
// If a reply line has the same code as the previous one and it's a continuation line,
// the whole prefix can be replaced by a single white space character.
//
// Reply codes starting with 0 stand for action successfully completed messages,
// 1 means table entry, 8 runtime error and 9 syntax error.
func (b *BIRDClient) exec(cmd string, args ...any) (string, error) {
if err := b.conn.SetWriteDeadline(b.timeNow().Add(b.timeout)); err != nil {
return "", err
}
if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(b.conn, cmd, args...); err != nil {
return "", err
}
if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(b.conn); err != nil {
return "", err
}
return b.readResponse()
}
// hasResponseCode reports whether the provided byte slice is
// prefixed with a BIRD response code.
// Equivalent regex: `^\d{4}[ -]`.
func hasResponseCode(s []byte) bool {
if len(s) < 5 {
return false
}
for _, b := range s[:4] {
if '0' <= b && b <= '9' {
continue
}
return false
}
return s[4] == ' ' || s[4] == '-'
}
func (b *BIRDClient) readResponse() (string, error) {
// Set the read timeout before we start reading anything.
if err := b.conn.SetReadDeadline(b.timeNow().Add(b.timeout)); err != nil {
return "", err
}
var resp strings.Builder
var done bool
for !done {
if !b.scanner.Scan() {
if err := b.scanner.Err(); err != nil {
return "", err
}
return "", fmt.Errorf("reading response from bird failed (EOF): %q", resp.String())
}
out := b.scanner.Bytes()
if _, err := resp.Write(out); err != nil {
return "", err
}
if hasResponseCode(out) {
done = out[4] == ' '
}
if !done {
resp.WriteRune('\n')
}
}
return resp.String(), nil
}