gdbus-tool prints a hint about the expected arguments to a function call
in case of errors. Unfortunately, it prints this message on all errors.
I've seen this confuse users several times -- they go on tweaking the
arguments trying to get the correct type, even though they had it
correct in the first place.
Let's limit the hint to the case where it was actually invalid arguments
that triggered the problem. Also, adjust the code that prints the
message so that it will also report on the case that no arguments were
expected.
We could possibly get closer to what we want by comparing the list of
expected arguments with the parameter list, as it was parsed from the
user, but that would involve composing the expected type. Let's keep
this simple for now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765710
When debugging a program or testing a change to an installed version, it
is often useful to be able to replace resources in the program or a
library, without recompiling.
To support this, for debugging and hacking purposes, it's now possible
to define a G_RESOURCE_OVERLAYS environment variable as a
colon-separated list of substitutions to perform when looking up
GResources.
A substitution has the form
"/org/gtk/libgtk=/home/desrt/gtk-overlay"
The part before the '=' is the resource subpath for which the overlay
applies. The part after is a filesystem path which contains files and
subdirectories as you would like to be loaded as resources with the
equivalent names.
In the example above, if an application tried to load a resource with
the resource path '/org/gtk/libgtk/ui/gtkdialog.ui' then GResource would
check the filesystem path '/home/desrt/gtk-overlay/ui/gtkdialog.ui'. If
a file was found there, it would be used instead.
Substitutions must start with a slash, and must not have a trailing
slash before the '='. It is possible to overlay the location of a
single resource with an individual file.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765668
Replace the hand-written equivalent of this with the call to the
GHashTable built-in version to save a few lines of code.
The GResource code was written a couple of years before this function
existed.
Similarly, replace a set-mode usage of g_hash_table_insert() with a call
to g_hash_table_add().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765668
Commit 99bdfd1b introduced a direct call to pthreads_setname_np in the
'thread' test case. Because we are directly calling pthreads functions
from this file now, we need to make sure we link it with the system
thread library flags (as we already do for another file).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765712
The new g_abort() macro just expands to abort() on systems where abort()
behaves in a sane way. On other systems (read: Windows) it does its best
to emulate a sane abort() behaviour.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665446
v_long is 32 bits on Win64, v_pointer is 64 bits. On most other platforms the
size of long and pointer is the same, so it's usually not a problem.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758738
GContextSpecificGroup has been somewhat broken for a rather long time:
when we remove the last reference on an object held in the group, we try
to clean up the source, but fail to actually remove it from the
mainloop.
We will soon stop emitting signals on the source (due to it having been
removed from the hash table) but any "in flight" signals will still be
delivered on the source, which continues to exist. This is a problem if
the event is being delivered just as the object is being destroyed.
This also means that we leave the source attached to the mainloop
forever (and next time will create a new one)...
This is demonstrated with the GtkAppChooser dialog which writes an
update to the mimeapps.list file just as it is closing, triggering the
app info monitor to fire just as it is being destroyed.
Karl Tomlinson correctly analysed the problem and proposed this fix.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762994
This works by using semi-documented[1] exception to tell the debugger
that a thread needs to have its name changed.
If this exception is not caught and handled by something, it will crash
the process, so we need to set up our own handler in case there's no
debugger attached or the debugger can't handle this type of exception.
Since SEH is not supported by gcc on i686 (at the moment), we need to use VEH
instead. For completeness the MSVC-oriented code still uses SEH, although
there is no reason why it shouldn't work with the VEH variant used by MinGW.
VEH handler has to be set up somewhere (g_thread_win32_init () works nicely)
and removed once it's not needed (g_thread_win32_process_detach () is added
expressly for that purpose). Note that g_thread_win32_process_detach() is
only called when glib is unloaded by FreeLibrary(), not when glib-using
process is terminating.
This exception is known to work with WinDbg, and adding support for it into
GDB proved to be feasible (GDB patch will be sent upstream, eventually).
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xcb2z8hs%28v=vs.71%29.aspxhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747478
We now prefer pthread_setname_np when available, and don't
need the linux specific API anymore. Also change the test
for this functionality to use pthread_getname_np.
GApplication has accepted any valid bus name as an application ID since
before the time of D-Bus activation. This includes bus names with '-'.
Several applications have even attempted support bus activation with
these names, going as far as installing D-Bus service files, without
realising that they are silently falling back to fork()/exec() on
account of the name containing a dash.
The reason for the problem is that D-Bus object paths cannot contain
dashes. We solved this problem privately in an unspecified way inside
of GApplication but substituting '_' in this case, but never made this
part of the Desktop Entry Specification.
The fact that these apps with '-' in the desktop file names aren't
actually using D-Bus activation is beside the point: their intent here
was clear. Let's avoid forcing them to rename their desktop files again
by simply accepting '-' in desktop file names and munging the path in
the way that GApplication did so historically.
The new path escaping code here has been copied more or less verbatim
from GApplication's own code for the same purpose, with only the removal
of one irrelevant part.
An update to the desktop entry specification will follow.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764754
Some packages might have some parts that are built for certain build
configs, meaning that they could have .pc files of their own, such as
Pango, where PangoFT2 is optionally built. Allow such an option if
needed.
Also remove some trailing whitespaces.
Inserts a paragraph in the start of the description
explaining briefly the concept of GVariant as a
variant datatypes using examples and explaining
a few use cases where GVariant can be useful.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748806
The current statfs() compilation tests all fail because statfs() expects
the first argument to be non-null. Pass a dummy path instead of NULL to
satisfy the compiler.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764574
This was confusing some static analysis. Through canonicalize_filename()
at construction time, we guaranteed that ->filename is canonical and
absolute, so g_path_skip_root() should never fail.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731988
This ensures that the generated file is always the same (not dependent
on the build machine's environment), making the build reproducible.
Thanks to Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> for the Debian bug report and
patch.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763617
find_file_in_data_dirs() doesn’t actually clear output_path to NULL on
failure, so this prevents a use-after-free on that (fd == -1) error
path.
Spotted by Coverity (CID: #1352981).
