These files are Markdown-ified versions of the following wiki pages:
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib/CompilerRequirements
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib/SupportedPlatforms
Keeping the files in version control with the rest of the documentation
means they should be easier to find, and easier to remember to keep up
to date.
They have not been modified other than to change to Markdown and tweak
the formatting. Content updates to them will be done in future commits.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This is part of an effort to rationalise our developer documentation a
bit, putting it all in one directory rather than cluttering up the root
directory.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
libgamin was last released in 2007 and is dead
[upstream](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gamin). Distributions may
still ship it (although Fedora no longer does), but we want people to
use inotify on Linux since it’s actively supported.
BSDs use kqueue. Windows uses win32filemonitor.
FAM might still be used on some commercial Unix distributions, but there
are no contributors from those distributions, and certainly no CI for
them to prevent regressions.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2614
It used to exist on Solaris, but GLib’s support for it was mostly
removed in 2015 in commit 21ab660cf8.
Remove the final few references.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This allows the controller to explicitly be removed from the bus, in a
way that allows the caller to synchronise with it and know that all
other references to the controller should have been dropped (i.e. after
this method returns, there should be no in-flight D-Bus calls still
holding a reference to the object).
This is needed to be able to guarantee finalisation of the controller in
unit tests (and comparable real-world situations).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #1190
The resources data is generated for both GCC and MSVC toolchains, even
though we know beforehand which toolchain we're going to compile it for.
By dropping the data duplication we make the generated resources file
faster to compile, especially when dealing with large embedded data,
instead of relying on the C pre-processor to walk the whole file and
discard the branch we're not using.
When working with storage (especially GInputStream or GOutputStream) it
is preferred to use page-aligned buffers so that the operating system
can do page-mapping tricks as the operation passes through the kernel.
Another use case is allocating memory used for vectorised operations,
which must be aligned to specific boundaries.
POSIX and Windows, as well as the C11 specification, provide this kind
of allocator functions, and GLib already makes use of it inside GSlice.
It would be convenient to have a public, portable wrapper that other
projects can use.
Fixes: #2574
If `GDebugControllerDBus` remains as the only, or default,
implementation of `GDebugController`, `dup_default()` cannot work.
`GDebugControllerDBus` requires a `GDBusConnection` at construction
time, which the `GIOModule` construction code can’t provide it.
Either we use a default D-Bus connection (but which one? and how would
it be changed by the user later if it was the wrong one?), or delegate
singleton handling of the `GDebugController` to the user.
The latter approach seems more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #1190
Much like GBindingGroup, the GSignalGroup object allows you to connect many
signal connections for an object and connect/disconnect/block/unblock them
as a group.
This is useful when using many connections on an object to ensure that they
are properly removed when changing state or disposing a third-party
object.
This has been used for years in various GNOME projects and makes sense to
have upstream instead of multiple copies.
Originally, GBindingGroup started with Builder as a way to simplify all
of the third-degree object bindings necessary around Model-Controller
objects such as TextBuffer/TextView.
Over time, it has grown to be useful in a number of scenarios outside
of Builder and has been copied into a number of projects such as GNOME
Text Editor, GtkSourceView, libdazzle, and more.
It makes sense at this point to unify on a single implementation and
include that upstream in GObject directly alongside GBinding.
This is intended to provide a uniform interface for controlling whether
the debug output from an application (or service) is emitted, typically
to journald, but actually to wherever the application chooses to output
it.
The main implementation of `GDebugController` is `GDebugControllerDBus`,
which is intended to be used on Linux. Other implementations may be
added in future for other platforms, or larger applications may want to
provide their own implementation which integrates with their ecosystem.
The `GDebugControllerDBus` implementation exposes a D-Bus interface at
`/org/gtk/Debugging` with a method to enable or disable debug
output at runtime.
This could be used by external harnesses, such as GNOME Builder or
systemd, to give a uniform way to get debug output from an application.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #1190
This is an API analogue of the G_MESSAGES_DEBUG environment variable. It
is intended to be exposed outside applications (for example, as a D-Bus
interface — see follow-up commits) so that there is a uniform interface
for controlling the debug output of an application.
Helps: #1190
On !UNIX, return an error for send_fd() & receive_fd().
(the unixfdmessage unit is not compiled on !UNIX)
The header is installed under the common GIO include directory.
Ensure G_TYPE_UNIX_CONNECTION is registered on all platforms.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
The header is now also installed under the common GIO include directory.
Sorry if it breaks any build, you had to use the correct header path.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Move the header under the common GIO include directory.
Sorry if it breaks any build, you had to use the correct header path.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
This function creates a new hash table, but inherits the functions used
for the hash, comparison, and key/value memory management functions from
another hash table.
The primary use case is to implement a behaviour where you maintain a
hash table by regenerating it, letting the values not migrated be freed.
See the following pseudo code:
```
GHashTable *ht;
init(GList *resources) {
ht = g_hash_table_new (g_str_hash, g_str_equal, g_free, g_free);
for (r in resources)
g_hash_table_insert (ht, strdup (resource_get_key (r)), create_value (r));
}
update(GList *resources) {
GHashTable *new_ht = g_hash_table_new_similar (ht);
for (r in resources) {
if (g_hash_table_steal_extended (ht, resource_get_key (r), &key, &value))
g_hash_table_insert (new_ht, key, value);
else
g_hash_table_insert (new_ht, strdup (resource_get_key (r)), create_value (r));
}
g_hash_table_unref (ht);
ht = new_ht;
}
```
Added `g_alloca0()` which wraps `g_alloca()` and initializes
allocated memory to zeroes.
Added `g_newa0()` which wraps `g_alloca0()` in a typesafe manner.
Refreshed and tweaked by Nishal Kulkarni.
Use g_macro__has_attribute to detect it instead of
hardcoding __GNUC__ || __clang__. This adds support
for a few compiler and is consistent with the rest
of the gmacros.h file.
This allows the flag to allow interactive auth to be set. Previously, it
was unconditionally unset.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This allows a pattern like
g_test_message ("cannot reticulate splines: %s", error->message);
g_test_fail ();
to be replaced by the simpler
g_test_fail_printf ("cannot reticulate splines: %s", error->message);
with the secondary benefit of making the message available to TAP
consumers as part of the "not ok" message.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Forming the g_test_skip() message from printf-style arguments seems
common enough to deserve a convenience function.
g_test_incomplete() is mechanically almost equivalent to g_test_skip()
(the semantics are different but the implementation is very similar),
so give it a similar mechanism for symmetry.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
g_source_set_name duplicates the string, and this is
showing up as one of the more prominent sources of strdups
in GTK profiles, despite all the names we use being literals.
Add a variant that avoids the overhead.
This should maintain equivalent functionality, apart from that now you
have to pass `--force-fallback-for libpcre` to `meson configure` in
order to use the subproject; rather than specifying
`-Dinternal_pcre=true` to use the internal copy.
This also fixes#642, as the wrapdb copy of libpcre is version 8.37.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #962Fixes: #642
On Unix platforms, wait() and friends yield an integer that encodes
how the process exited. Confusingly, this is usually not the same as
the integer passed to exit() or returned from main(): conceptually it's
an integer encoding of this tagged union:
enum { EXITED, SIGNALLED, ... } tag;
union {
int exit_status; /* if EXITED */
struct {
int terminating_signal;
bool core_dumped;
} terminating_signal; /* if SIGNALLED */
...
} detail;
Meanwhile, on Windows, wait statuses and exit statuses are
interchangeable.
I find that it's clearer what is going on if we are consistent about
referring to the result of wait() as a "wait status", and the value
passed to exit() as an "exit status".
GSubprocess already gets this right: g_subprocess_get_status() returns
the wait status, while g_subprocess_get_exit_status() genuinely returns
the exit status. However, the GSpawn family of APIs has tended to
conflate the two.
Confusingly, g_spawn_check_exit_status() has always checked a wait
status, and it would not be correct to pass an exit status to it; so
let's deprecate it in favour of g_spawn_check_wait_status(), which
does the same thing that g_spawn_check_exit_status() always did.
Code that needs backwards-compatibility with older GLib can use:
#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 69, 0)
#define g_spawn_check_wait_status(x) (g_spawn_check_exit_status (x))
#endif
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This works in the same way as g_variant_take_ref(), and for the same
reason.
Updated and Rebased by Nitin Wartkar <nitinwartkar58@gmail.com>
Closes#1112
This adds g_tls_connection_get_protocol_version(),
g_tls_connection_get_ciphersuite_name(), and DTLS variants. This will
allow populating TLS connection information in the WebKit web inspector.
This is WIP because we found it's not quite possibly to implement
correctly with GnuTLS. See glib-networking!151.
This changeset exposes
* `not-valid-before`
* `not-valid-after`
* `subject-name`
* `issuer-name`
on GTlsCertificate provided by the underlying TLS Backend.
In order to make use of these changes,
see the related [glib-networking MR][glib-networking].
This change aims to help populate more of the [`Certificate`][wk-cert]
info in the WebKit Inspector Protocol on Linux.
This changeset stems from work in Microsoft Playwright to [add more info
into its HAR capture][pw] generated from the Inspector Protocol events
and will bring feature parity across WebKit platforms.
[wk-cert]: 8afe31a018/Source/JavaScriptCore/inspector/protocol/Security.json
[pw]: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/6631
[glib-networking]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking/-/merge_requests/156
Because sometimes you don't want a lone "%s", and you don't
want the compiler yelling at you about format strings that
don't have any format in them.
Closes#663
It is cleaner to define glib_typeof() in a header included after
gversionmacros.h so we can use GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED directly
instead of doing it everywhere glib_typeof() is used.
This allows introspection to properly handle them as GPatternSpec
methods, as per this deprecate g_pattern_match() and
g_pattern_match_string() functions.
Fall back to compiler version checks only when `__has_attribute()` is not
available.
clang-cl doesn't define `__GNU__`, but still accepts attributes. This change
gets rid of a lot of warnings when building GLib with clang-cl. For GCC and
non-cl Clang nothing should change.
This is basically glnx_steal_fd() from libglnx. We already had two
private implementations of it in GLib.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This is a simple wrapper around the new source/target FD mapping
functionality in `fork_exec()`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2097
This adds g_string_replace(), a function that replaces instances of one string
with another in a GString. It allows the caller to specify the maximum number
of replacements to perform, and returns the number of replacements performed
to the caller.
Fixes: #225
This will replace the existing `g_memdup()` function, which has an
unavoidable security flaw of taking its `byte_size` argument as a
`guint` rather than as a `gsize`. Most callers will expect it to be a
`gsize`, and may pass in large values which could silently be truncated,
resulting in an undersize allocation compared to what the caller
expects.
This could lead to a classic buffer overflow vulnerability for many
callers of `g_memdup()`.
`g_memdup2()`, in comparison, takes its `byte_size` as a `gsize`.
Spotted by Kevin Backhouse of GHSL.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: GHSL-2021-045
Helps: #2319
That changes the return type of functions like g_object_ref() that can
break C++ applications like Webkit. Note that it is not an ABI break.
It must thus be opt-in the same way we did when adding this to
g_object_ref() for GNU C compilers in the first place. Unfortunately it
cannot be done directly in gmacros.h because GLIB_VERSION_2_68 is not
defined there, and gversionmacros.h cannot be included there because
there is some strict ordering in which those headers must be included.
This means that applications that does not define
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED will still get an API break, so we encourage
them to declare their minimum requirement to avoir such issues in the
future too.
I found myself wanting to know the test that is currently being run,
where e.g. __func__ would be inconvenient to use, because e.g. the place
the string was needed was not in the test case function. Using __func__
also relies on the test function itself containing the whole path, while
loosing the "/" information that is part of the test path.
These two APIs are useful to publish an object which path content is not
controlled (e.g. dynamically built or coming from external source).
Closes#968
(Rebased and tweaked by Frederic Martinsons)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
Even if the modules in the given directory never get chosen to be used,
loading arbitrary code from a user-provided directory is not safe when
running as setuid, as the process’ environment comes from an untrusted
source.
Also ignore `GIO_EXTRA_MODULES`.
Spotted by Simon McVittie.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2168
Just embed a PNG instead. gdk-pixbuf deprecated its pixdata support in
version 2.32, in 2015.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #1281
This command will try to execute a desktop file, before that
it will load the input as a keyfile for checking its existence
and its validity (as a keyfile).
File arguments are allowed after the desktop file.
Closes#54
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
It search for attribute trash::orig-path and move the input file to it.
Possibly recreating the directory of orignal path and/or overwritting
the destination.
Closes#2098
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
http://isvolatileusefulwiththreads.in/c/
It’s possible that the variables here are only marked as volatile
because they’re arguments to `g_once_*()`. Those arguments will be
modified in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #600
Add a new variant of `g_time_zone_new()` which returns `NULL` on
failure to load a timezone, rather than silently returning UTC.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #553
This commit is the unmodified results of running
```
black $(git ls-files '*.py')
```
with black version 19.10b0. See #2046.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This function returns the most specific instantiatable type
that is a prerequisite for a given interface.
This type is necessary in particular when dealing with GValues
because a GValue contains an instance of a type.
This commit includes tests for the new API.
Rather than using a mixture of ‘instantiable’ and ‘instantiatable’
everywhere, standardise on the term which is already in the public API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
For legacy reasons, Meson's gtk-doc helper script launches the
gtkdoc-mkhtml tool in the `html` directory under the build root. This
means that all paths must be relative to that location.
g_has_typeof macro is wrongly in the public g_ namespace, internaly
symbols are usually in the glib_ namespace. This will also allow to
define glib_typeof differently on non-GNUC compilers (e.g. c++11
decltype).
GLib uses NULL-terminated string arrays (GStrv) in a number of places, however
these are quite hard to construct in C when the number of elements is not known
in advance. GStrvBuilder wraps GPtrArray to make these easy to create with
type safety and does the memory management for you.
By default, when using g_subprocess_launcher_take_fd() to pass an
FD to a child, the GSubprocessLauncher object also takes ownership
of the FD in the parent, and closes it during finalize(). This is
a reasonable assumption in the majority of the cases, but sometimes
it isn't a good idea.
An example is when creating a GSubprocessLauncher in JavaScript:
here, the destruction process is managed by the Garbage Collector,
which means that those sockets will remain opened for some time
after all the references to the object has been droped. This means
that it could be not possible to detect when the child has closed
that same FD, because in order to make that work, both FDs
instances (the one in the parent and the one in the children) must
be closed. This can be a problem in, as an example, a process that
launches a child that communicates with Wayland using an specific
socket (like when using the new API MetaWaylandClient).
Of course, it isn't a valid solution to manually call close() in
the parent process just after the call to spawn(), because the FD
number could be reused in the time between it is manually closed,
and when the object is destroyed and closes again that FD. If that
happens, it will close an incorrect FD.
One solution could be to call run_dispose() from Javascript on the
GSubprocessLauncher object, to force freeing the resources.
Unfortunately, the current code frees them in the finalize()
method, not in dispose() (this is fixed in !1670 (merged) ) but it
isn't a very elegant solution.
This proposal adds a new method, g_subprocess_launcher_close(),
that allows to close the FDs passed to the child. To avoid problems,
after closing an FD with this method, no more spawns are allowed.
Fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1677
This allows programs that want to change how log messages are printed,
such as gnome-terminal (gnome-terminal#42) and Flatpak, to override
the log-writer or the legacy log-handler without having to reimplement
the G_MESSAGES_DEBUG filtering logic.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
GLib code normally prints info and debug messages to stdout,
but that interferes with programs that are documented to produce
machine-readable output such as JSON or XML on stdout. In particular,
if such a program uses a GLib-based library, setting G_MESSAGES_DEBUG
will typically result in that library's debug messages going to the
program's stdout and corrupting the machine-readable output.
Unix programs can avoid this by using dup2() to move the original stdout
to another fd, then dup2() again to make the new stdout a copy of stderr,
but it's easier if we provide a way to not write debug messages to
stdout in the first place. Calling
g_log_writer_default_set_use_stderr (TRUE) results in behaviour
resembling Python's logging.basicConfig(), with all diagnostics going
to stderr.
Suggested by Allison Karlitskaya on glib#2087.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
The basic API that this commit adds allows in-order iterating over a GTree.
For this the following API were implemented or exported:
1) Returning the first or the last node in the tree,
2) Taking a pointer to a node in the tree and returning the previous or the
next in-order node,
3) Allowing to do a binary search for a particular key value and returning
the pointer to its node,
4) Returning the newly inserted or set node from both insert and replace
functions, so this node is immediately available and does not have to be
looked up,
5) Traversing the tree in-order providing a node pointer to the
caller-provided traversal function.
Most of the above functions were already present in the code, but they
returned the value that is stored at a particular node instead of the
pointer to the node itself.
So most of the code for these new API calls is shared with these existing
ones, just adapted to return the pointer to the node.
Additionally, the so called "lower bound" and "upper bound" operations
were implemented.
The first one returns the first element that is greater than or equal to
the searched key, while the second returns the first element that is
strictly greater than the searched key.
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Expose a function that prepares an attribute query string to be passed
to g_file_query_info() to get a list of attributes normally copied with
the file. This function is used by the implementation of
g_file_copy_attributes, and it's useful if one needs to split
g_file_copy_attributes into two stages, for example, when nautilus does
a recursive move of a directory. When files are moved from the source
directory, its modification time changes. To preserve the mtime on the
destination directory, it has to be queried before moving files and set
after doing it, hence these two stages.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>
Like G_SOURCE_REMOVE and G_SOURCE_CONTINUE, these make it clearer what
it means to return TRUE or FALSE.
In particular, in GDBus methods that fail, the failure case still needs
to return TRUE (unlike the typical GError pattern), leading to comments
like this:
g_dbus_method_invocation_return_error (invocation, ...);
return TRUE; /* handled */
which can now be replaced by:
g_dbus_method_invocation_return_error (invocation, ...);
return G_DUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_HANDLED;
G_DBUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_UNHANDLED is added for symmetry, but is very
rarely (perhaps never?) useful in practice.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
There is already g_unix_mount_at function which allows to find certain
unix mount for given mount path. It would be useful to have similar
function for mount points, which will allow to replace custom codes in
gvfs. Let's add g_unix_mount_point_at.
