The X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom key is used in .desktop files to identify past
names for the desktop file. It is defined to be a list of strings.
However, there was previously no correct way to retrieve a list of
strings from the GKeyFile wrapped by GDesktopAppInfo, short of
re-parsing the file with GKeyFile.
Note that doing something like:
g_strsplit (g_desktop_app_info_get_string (...), ";", -1)
is not correct: the raw value "a\;b;" represents the one-element list
["a;b"], but g_key_file_get_string() rejects the sequence "\;", and so
g_desktop_app_info_get_string() returns NULL in this case. (Of course, a
.desktop file with a semicolon in its name is a pathological case.)
Add g_desktop_app_info_get_string_list(), a trivial wrapper around
g_key_file_get_string_list(), similar to g_desktop_app_info_get_string()
and co.
The change from g_key_file_free() to g_key_file_unref() in the test is
needed because g_key_file_free() clears the contents of the keyfile.
This is fine for all the fields which are eagerly loaded and copied into
GDesktopAppInfo, but not when we want to access arbitrary stuff from the
keyfile.
This is detected by Debian's Lintian tool, which suggests
"allows one to" as a replacement. I've rephrased the documentation
in question to avoid both of those.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Expands to the GNU C fallthrough statement attribute if the compiler is gcc.
This allows declaring case statement to explicitly fall through in switch
statements. To enable this feature, use -Wimplicit-fallthrough during
compilation.
There are many cases where a default TLS database is not able to be
defined within the constraints of a system. For example glib-networking
(or glib-openssl) cannot retrieve the default certificate store on iOS
or Android and need to be initialized from a cert file of certificates
bundled with the application.
Previously GStreamer was relying on a custom patch to glib-networking to
populate the default database from the file pointed to by the
CA_CERTIFICATES environment variable however the mechanism that enabled
this was recently remove from glib-networking.
Adding a more generic g_tls_backend_set_default_database() API allows
application developers to override the default database using their own
certificates as well as allowing equivalent functionality on Android/iOS
(or others) as on the default database handling Linux.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking/issues/35
The goal of this commit is to reduce differences between the autotools and meson build.
With autotools AC_FUNC_ALLOCA was used which defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H, HAVE_ALLOCA,
C_ALLOCA. meson tried to replicate that with has_function() but alloca can be a macro
and and is named _alloca under Windows. Since we require a working alloca anyway
and only need to know if the header exists replace AC_FUNC_ALLOCA with a simple
AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
There is still one user of HAVE_ALLOCA in the embedded gnulib, but since alloca is
always provided through galloca.h just force define HAVE_ALLOCA there and add a comment.
The docs were mentioning alloca as an example for cross compiling. Since that variable no
longer exists now replace it with another one.
They should either be generated at build time, or ignored completely,
depending on the presence of --[enable|disable]-man.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
A lot of GLib APIs provide a string length and explicitly say that the strings
are not NUL terminated. For instance, parsing XML using GMarkupParser or
reading packed binary strings from mmapped data files.
The last part of the reference counting saga.
Now that we have:
- reference counter types
- reference counted allocations
we can finally add reference counted strings using reference counted
allocations to avoid creating a new String type, and reimplementing
every single string-based API.
GArcBox is the atomic reference counting version of GRcBox. Unlike
GRcBox, the reference acquisition and release on GArcBox are guaranteed
to be atomic, and thus they can be performed from different threads.
This is similar to Rust's Arc<Box<T>> combination of traits.
It is useful to provide a "reference counted allocation" API that can
add reference counting semantics to any memory allocation. This allows
turning data structures that usually are placed on the stack into memory
that can be placed on the heap without:
- adding a public reference count field
- implementing copy/free semantics
This mechanism is similar to Rust's Rc<Box<T>> combination of traits,
and uses a Valgrind-friendly overallocation mechanism to store the
reference count into a private data segment, like we do with GObject's
private instance data.
meson.build was already passing --rebuild-types option but not
Makefile.am. Copy the IGNORE_HFILES list from meson.build because it was
outdated in Makefile.am and it's causing build issues when using the
generated gio.types file because it would contain win32 types when
building on linux.
Add an app-launching function which allows standard file descriptors
to be passed to the child process.
This will be used by gnome-shell to pass systemd journal descriptors
as stdout/stderr. gnome-shell's child_setup function can then be
eliminated, which will enable use of the posix_spawn optimized
gspawn codepath for desktop app launching.
Add a new process spawning function variant which allows the caller
to pass specific file descriptors for stdin, stdout and stderr.
It is otherwise identical to g_spawn_async_with_pipes.
Allow the same fd to be passed in multiple parameters. To make this
workable, the child process logic that closes the fd after the first time
it has been dup2'ed needed tweaking; we now just set those fds to be
closed upon exec using the CLOEXEC flag. Add a test for this case.
This will be used by gnome-shell to avoid performing equivalent
dup2 actions in a child_setup function. Dropping use of child_setup will
enable use of an upcoming optimized process spawning codepath.
These generate basic .c and .h files containing the GDBusInterfaceInfo
for a D-Bus introspection XML file, but no other code (no skeletons,
proxies, GObjects, etc.).
This is useful for projects who want to describe their D-Bus interfaces
using introspection XML, but who wish to implement the interfaces
manually (for various reasons, typically because the skeletons generated
by gdbus-codegen are too simplistic and limiting). Previously, these
projects would have had to write the GDBusInterfaceInfo manually, which
is painstaking and error-prone.
The new --interface-info-[body|header] options are very similar to
--[body|header], but mutually exclusive with them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795304
We have a common pattern for reference counting in GLib, but we always
implement it with ad hoc code. This is a good chance at trying to
standardise the implementation and make it public, so that other code
using GLib can take advantage of shared behaviour and semantics.
Instead of simply taking an integer variable, we should create type
aliases, to immediately distinguish the reference counting semantics of
the code; we can handle mixing atomic reference counting with a
non-atomic type (and vice versa) by using differently signed values for
the atomic and non-atomic cases.
The gatomicrefcount type is modelled on the Linux kernel refcount_t
type; the grefcount type is added to let single-threaded code bases to
avoid paying the price of atomic memory barriers on reference counting
operations.
It's mostly not used anymore and doesn't do what it says it does.
The docs state that it affects GList, GSList, GNode, GMemChunks, GSignal,
GType n_preallocs and GBSearchArray while:
* GList, GSList and GNode use GSlice and are not affected
* GMemChunks is gone
* GType npreallocs is ignored
It also states that it can be used to force the usage of g_malloc/g_free,
which is handled by G_SLICE=always-malloc now.
The only places where it's used is in signal handling through GBSearchArray
and in GValueArray (deprecated). Since it's unlikely that anyone wants to
reduce allocation sizes just for those cases remove the build option.
ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY_DEFAULT was supposed to set the default for the gc friendliness
while still allowing to force enable it at runtime with G_DEBUG=gc-friendly.
With commit 943a18b564 (6 years ago) things were changed to always set it
according to the content of G_DEBUG in glib_init(), making the default unused.
Since nobody complained since then just remove the macro and the build option.
Add a test macro that allows comparing two floating point values for
equality within a certain tolerance.
This macro has been independently reimplemented by various projects:
* Clutter
* Graphene
* colord
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/914
It's a synonym of G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_UNIX_DEVICE.
It doesn't change anything except not feeling dirty from using a wrongly
prefixed constant for the object type.
See: #182
GVfsUDisks2VolumeMonitor handles x-gvfs-hide/x-gvfs-show mount options
used to overwrite our heuristics whether the mount should be shown, or
hidden. Unfortunately, it works currently only for mounts with
corresponding fstab entries, because the options are read over
g_unix_mount_point_get_options. Let's introduce g_unix_mount_get_options
to allow reading of the options for all sort of mounts (e.g. created
over pam_mount, or manually mounted).
(Minor fixes to the documentation by Philip Withnall
<withnall@endlessm.com>.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668132
This is a combination of g_hash_table_lookup_extended() and
g_hash_table_steal(), so that users can combine the two to reduce code
and eliminate a pointless second hash table lookup by
g_hash_table_steal().
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795302
