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tailscale/util/cstruct/cstruct.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 cstruct provides a helper for decoding binary data that is in the
// form of a padded C structure.
package cstruct
import (
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"io"
)
// Size of a pointer-typed value, in bits
const pointerSize = 32 << (^uintptr(0) >> 63)
// We assume that non-64-bit platforms are 32-bit; we don't expect Go to run on
// a 16- or 8-bit architecture any time soon.
const is64Bit = pointerSize == 64
// Decoder reads and decodes padded fields from a slice of bytes. All fields
// are decoded with native endianness.
//
// Methods of a Decoder do not return errors, but rather store any error within
// the Decoder. The first error can be obtained via the Err method; after the
// first error, methods will return the zero value for their type.
type Decoder struct {
b []byte
off int
err error
dbuf [8]byte // for decoding
}
// NewDecoder creates a Decoder from a byte slice.
func NewDecoder(b []byte) *Decoder {
return &Decoder{b: b}
}
var errUnsupportedSize = errors.New("unsupported size")
func padBytes(offset, size int) int {
if offset == 0 || size == 1 {
return 0
}
remainder := offset % size
return size - remainder
}
func (d *Decoder) getField(b []byte) error {
size := len(b)
// We only support fields that are multiples of 2 (or 1-sized)
if size != 1 && size&1 == 1 {
return errUnsupportedSize
}
// Fields are aligned to their size
padBytes := padBytes(d.off, size)
if d.off+size+padBytes > len(d.b) {
return io.EOF
}
d.off += padBytes
copy(b, d.b[d.off:d.off+size])
d.off += size
return nil
}
// Err returns the first error that was encountered by this Decoder.
func (d *Decoder) Err() error {
return d.err
}
// Offset returns the current read offset for data in the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Offset() int {
return d.off
}
// Byte returns a single byte from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Byte() byte {
if d.err != nil {
return 0
}
if err := d.getField(d.dbuf[0:1]); err != nil {
d.err = err
return 0
}
return d.dbuf[0]
}
// Byte returns a number of bytes from the buffer based on the size of the
// input slice. No padding is applied.
//
// If an error is encountered or this Decoder has previously encountered an
// error, no changes are made to the provided buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Bytes(b []byte) {
if d.err != nil {
return
}
// No padding for byte slices
size := len(b)
if d.off+size >= len(d.b) {
d.err = io.EOF
return
}
copy(b, d.b[d.off:d.off+size])
d.off += size
}
// Uint16 returns a uint16 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Uint16() uint16 {
if d.err != nil {
return 0
}
if err := d.getField(d.dbuf[0:2]); err != nil {
d.err = err
return 0
}
return binary.NativeEndian.Uint16(d.dbuf[0:2])
}
// Uint32 returns a uint32 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Uint32() uint32 {
if d.err != nil {
return 0
}
if err := d.getField(d.dbuf[0:4]); err != nil {
d.err = err
return 0
}
return binary.NativeEndian.Uint32(d.dbuf[0:4])
}
// Uint64 returns a uint64 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Uint64() uint64 {
if d.err != nil {
return 0
}
if err := d.getField(d.dbuf[0:8]); err != nil {
d.err = err
return 0
}
return binary.NativeEndian.Uint64(d.dbuf[0:8])
}
// Uintptr returns a uintptr decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Uintptr() uintptr {
if d.err != nil {
return 0
}
if is64Bit {
return uintptr(d.Uint64())
} else {
return uintptr(d.Uint32())
}
}
// Int16 returns a int16 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Int16() int16 {
return int16(d.Uint16())
}
// Int32 returns a int32 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Int32() int32 {
return int32(d.Uint32())
}
// Int64 returns a int64 decoded from the buffer.
func (d *Decoder) Int64() int64 {
return int64(d.Uint64())
}