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Philip Withnall
6aa210e6af gio: Remove fam file monitor support
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
2022-03-23 15:41:54 +00:00
Philip Withnall
2759dd71be gio: Remove remaining references to fen file monitor
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>
2022-03-23 15:40:41 +00:00
Philip Withnall
e951bf1ae3 docs: Improve formatting for some file monitor documentation
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
2022-03-23 15:34:19 +00:00
Philip Withnall
bbf1dca06a docs: Drop reference to G_LOCAL_DIRECTORY_MONITOR_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
Support for separate directory monitors was dropped in commit
b995c08bf3, in 2015.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
2022-03-23 15:32:37 +00:00
gonyere
5eeac53793 Changed gendered terms to be gender-neutral 2021-11-12 21:32:21 -05:00
Philip Withnall
ba414ee100 giomodule: Ignore GIO_MODULE_DIR when running as setuid
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
2021-01-07 15:02:24 +00:00
Philip Withnall
159a9c215a gio: Fix various typos of the name ‘D-Bus’
This introduces no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
2020-10-26 14:28:15 +00:00
Philip Withnall
00bfb3ab44 tree: Fix various typos and outdated terminology
This was mostly machine generated with the following command:
```
codespell \
    --builtin clear,rare,usage \
    --skip './po/*' --skip './.git/*' --skip './NEWS*' \
    --write-changes .
```
using the latest git version of `codespell` as per [these
instructions](https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell#user-content-updating).

Then I manually checked each change using `git add -p`, made a few
manual fixups and dropped a load of incorrect changes.

There are still some outdated or loaded terms used in GLib, mostly to do
with git branch terminology. They will need to be changed later as part
of a wider migration of git terminology.

If I’ve missed anything, please file an issue!

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
2020-06-12 15:01:08 +01:00
wouter bolsterlee
809a9210c3 Support multiple directories in GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
This adds support for specifying multiple directories in the
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR environment variable by separating the values
using G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S (colon on UNIX-like systems).

While programs could already register multiple custom GSettings schema
directories, it was not possible to achieve the same without writing
custom code, e.g. when using the gsettings command line tool.

Fixes #1998.
2020-01-16 10:20:34 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
8f71892862 Document "help" for extensions
Mention the special value "help" for the environment variables
that we document for picking extensions.
2019-01-22 13:18:50 -05:00
Mart Raudsepp
2ab231f52a docs: Fix dconf GSETTINGS_BACKEND name in gio overview 2018-12-21 17:38:06 +02:00
Philip Withnall
82d28f07ed docs: Fix an invalid DocBook link in the GIO overview
<link> can only be used for links to DocBook IDs. <ulink> is for URI
links. (Why does it have to be this complex?)

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
2018-11-23 13:26:50 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
669a0f72a1 Trivial: documentation wording fix
There was a stray 'of' here.
2016-06-30 08:58:41 -04:00
Colin Walters
424b3b9c6c docs: Move GIO_USE_VFS to "okay for production" section
Lots of projects like NetworkManager, ostree, udisks, soon polkit,
etc.  do this or *should* do this.  And we need to support that
forever.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767172
2016-06-02 14:11:17 -04:00
Philip Withnall
098f19bced docs: Replace references to GVFS hal modules with udisks2
Since hal is dead and buried, and has been superseded by the udisks2
modules in GVFS.
2016-05-19 10:06:36 +01:00
Philip Withnall
430814992d docs: Expand introduction to mention using async calls over sync ones
As discussed on the mailing list (see the whole thread):
    https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-February/msg00126.html

Expand the GIO documentation introduction to talk a little about when to
use async and sync functions, and how the former should almost always be
preferred over the latter.

Link to this from the GFile documentation, which is an entry point for a
lot of async calls.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744722
2015-03-03 18:27:45 +00:00
Michael Catanzaro
e9c19583de docs: fix a typo 2013-12-29 14:20:13 -06:00
Stef Walter
e3babb3687 giomodule: Allow overriding source directory gio modules are loaded from
When testing (and valgrinding) we need to have a known set of modules
loaded.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711801
2013-11-23 01:17:03 -05:00
Ross Lagerwall
d55180c73b docs: Remove comment about calling g_type_init()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709966
2013-10-18 10:32:18 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
844527c037 Document GIO_USE_FILE_MONITOR 2013-02-03 14:08:02 -05:00
Matthias Clasen
47a3b76ac5 Move GIO-specific information to the GIO docs 2012-09-11 23:15:03 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
6a50dc511b Drop GVFS_INOTIFY_DIAG debug feature
Just not a good idea to have this in production code.
2012-09-11 20:24:30 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
b0c3997fdd Improve GNetworkMonitor docs
Make sure we get signal and property docs, and mention
the extension point in the overview.
2011-12-13 13:21:55 -05:00
Matthias Clasen
69c6e41b54 Document the GIO_USE_TLS environment variable 2010-12-13 09:19:35 -05:00
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
8f19d06ed9 Fix typo in docs for extension point
Introduced in fcd3e34227
2010-12-02 22:51:07 +01:00
Matthias Clasen
fcd3e34227 Add new extension point to the list 2010-11-29 01:39:06 -05:00
Matthias Clasen
925b4231dc Point out that g_type_init() is required 2010-08-25 22:09:07 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
ef16ea4616 Add proxy extension point to overview docs
The 'Extending GIO' section is supposed to list all extension
points, so add the proxy extension point here.
2010-08-21 22:22:25 -04:00
David Zeuthen
8a3a4596e2 Bug 626748 – Use async methods for writing and handle EAGAIN
If sending a lot of data and/or the other peer is not reading it, then
socket buffers can overflow. This is communicated from the kernel by
returning EAGAIN. In GIO, it is modelled by g_output_stream_write()
and g_socket_send_message() returning G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK.

It is also problematic that that we're using synchronous IO in the
shared GDBus IO thread. It means that one GDBusConnection can lock up
others.

It turns out that by porting from g_output_stream_write() to
g_output_stream_write_async() we fix the EAGAIN issue. For GSocket, we
still need to handle things manually (by creating a GSource) as
g_socket_send_message() is used.

We check the new behavior in Michael's producer/consumer test case (at
/gdbus/overflow in gdbus-peer.c) added in the last commit.

Also add a test case that sends and receives a 20 MiB message.

Also add a new `transport' G_DBUS_DEBUG option so it is easy to
inspect partial writes:

 $ G_DBUS_DEBUG=transport ./gdbus-connection -p /gdbus/connection/large_message
 [...]
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   >>>> WROTE 128000 bytes of message with serial 4 and
        size 20971669 from offset 0 on a GSocketOutputStream
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   >>>> WROTE 128000 bytes of message with serial 4 and
        size 20971669 from offset 128000 on a GSocketOutputStream
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   >>>> WROTE 128000 bytes of message with serial 4 and
        size 20971669 from offset 256000 on a GSocketOutputStream
 [...]
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   >>>> WROTE 43669 bytes of message with serial 4 and
        size 20971669 from offset 20928000 on a GSocketOutputStream
 [...]
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   <<<< READ 16 bytes of message with serial 3 and
        size 20971620 to offset 0 from a GSocketInputStream
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   <<<< READ 15984 bytes of message with serial 3 and
        size 20971620 to offset 16 from a GSocketInputStream
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   <<<< READ 16000 bytes of message with serial 3 and
        size 20971620 to offset 16000 from a GSocketInputStream
 [...]
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   <<<< READ 144000 bytes of message with serial 3 and
        size 20971620 to offset 20720000 from a GSocketInputStream
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Transport:
   <<<< READ 107620 bytes of message with serial 3 and
        size 20971620 to offset 20864000 from a GSocketInputStream
 OK

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626748

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
2010-08-16 13:54:13 -04:00
David Zeuthen
d52e1c33f7 GDBus: Add `return' debug option
This prints all GDBusMethodInvocation API usage and is normally used
with the `incoming' option. Example:

 # G_DBUS_DEBUG=incoming,return ./polkitd --replace
 Entering main event loop
 Connected to the system bus
 Registering null backend at priority -10
 [...]
 Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
 [...]

 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Incoming:
  <<<< METHOD INVOCATION org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.RegisterAuthenticationAgent()
       on object /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority
       invoked by name :1.26
       serial 299
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Return:
  >>>> METHOD ERROR org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed
       message `Cannot determine session the caller is in'
       in response to org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.RegisterAuthenticationAgent()
       on object /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority
       to name :1.26
       reply-serial 299

 [...]

 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Incoming:
  <<<< METHOD INVOCATION org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.RegisterAuthenticationAgent()
       on object /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority
       invoked by name :1.2402
       serial 25
 ========================================================================
 GDBus-debug:Return:
  >>>> METHOD RETURN
       in response to org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.RegisterAuthenticationAgent()
       on object /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority
       to name :1.2402
       reply-serial 25

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
2010-08-04 16:59:26 -04:00
David Zeuthen
aab6d9ed1c GDBus: Handle autolaunching on UNIX/Freedesktop OSes
Also add a 'address' G_DBUS_DEBUG option that will print out useful
debug information such as

  GDBus-debug:Address: In g_dbus_address_get_for_bus_sync() for bus type `session'
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_STARTER_BUS_TYPE is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: Running `dbus-launch --autolaunch=05e508961149264c9b750a4c494aa6f7 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' to get bus address (possibly autolaunching)
  GDBus-debug:Address: dbus-launch output:
    0000: 75 6e 69 78  3a 61 62 73  74 72 61 63  74 3d 2f 74    unix:abstract=/t
    0010: 6d 70 2f 64  62 75 73 2d  77 42 41 6f  4b 59 49 52    mp/dbus-wBAoKYIR
    0020: 7a 75 2c 67  75 69 64 3d  30 34 30 64  31 33 66 33    zu,guid=040d13f3
    0030: 30 61 30 62  35 32 63 32  30 66 36 32  63 34 31 63    0a0b52c20f62c41c
    0040: 30 30 30 30  35 30 38 64  00 d2 38 00  00 01 00 40    0000508d..8....@
    0050: 05 00 00 00  00                                       .....
  GDBus-debug:Address: dbus-launch stderr output:
  14542: Autolaunch enabled (using X11).
  14542: --exit-with-session automatically enabled
  14542: Connected to X11 display ':0.0'
  14542: === Parent dbus-launch continues
  14542: Waiting for babysitter's intermediate parent
  14542: Reading address from bus
  14542: Reading PID from daemon
  14542: Saving x11 address
  14542: Created window 88080385
  14542: session file: /root/.dbus/session-bus/05e508961149264c9b750a4c494aa6f7-0
  14542: dbus-launch exiting
  GDBus-debug:Address: Returning address `unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-wBAoKYIRzu,guid=040d13f30a0b52c20f62c41c0000508d' for bus type `session'

and

  GDBus-debug:Address: In g_dbus_address_get_for_bus_sync() for bus type `session'
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: env var DBUS_STARTER_BUS_TYPE is not set
  GDBus-debug:Address: Running `dbus-launch --autolaunch=05e508961149264c9b750a4c494aa6f7 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' to get bus address (possibly autolaunching)
  GDBus-debug:Address: dbus-launch output:
    0000: 75 6e 69 78  3a 61 62 73  74 72 61 63  74 3d 2f 74    unix:abstract=/t
    0010: 6d 70 2f 64  62 75 73 2d  77 42 41 6f  4b 59 49 52    mp/dbus-wBAoKYIR
    0020: 7a 75 2c 67  75 69 64 3d  30 34 30 64  31 33 66 33    zu,guid=040d13f3
    0030: 30 61 30 62  35 32 63 32  30 66 36 32  63 34 31 63    0a0b52c20f62c41c
    0040: 30 30 30 30  35 30 38 64  00 d2 38 00  00 01 00 40    0000508d..8....@
    0050: 05 00 00 00  00                                       .....
  GDBus-debug:Address: dbus-launch stderr output:
  14549: Autolaunch enabled (using X11).
  14549: --exit-with-session automatically enabled
  14549: Connected to X11 display ':0.0'
  14549: dbus-daemon is already running. Returning existing parameters.
  14549: dbus-launch exiting
  GDBus-debug:Address: Returning address `unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-wBAoKYIRzu,guid=040d13f30a0b52c20f62c41c0000508d' for bus type `session'

Note that things work exactly like libdbus, e.g. from the
dbus-launch(1) man page:

  Whenever an autolaunch occurs, the application that had to start a
  new bus will be in its own little world; it can effectively end up
  starting a whole new session if it tries to use a lot of bus
  services. This can be suboptimal or even totally broken, depending
  on the app and what it tries to do.

  [...]

  You can always avoid autolaunch by manually setting
  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. Autolaunch happens because the default
  address if none is set is "autolaunch:", so if any other address is
  set there will be no autolaunch. You can however include autolaunch
  in an explicit session bus address as a fallback, for example
  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="something:,autolaunch:" - in that case if
  the first address doesn't work, processes will autolaunch. (The bus
  address variable contains a comma-separated list of addresses to
  try.)

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
2010-07-06 17:03:36 -04:00
David Zeuthen
c29ad23928 GDBus: make G_DBUS_DEBUG=authentication work again
This was inadvertently removed in this commit

http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=1d22b64843c83631bcd0e5255930f3a4e990961e

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
2010-07-02 09:35:13 -04:00
David Zeuthen
bd8d837f57 Bug 620913 – More control with G_DBUS_DEBUG
This commit adds the following G_DBUS_DEBUG flags

 - emission
 - incoming
 - call
 - signal
 - payload

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620913

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
2010-07-01 14:37:16 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
371a3373bb Correct env var names
and add a note about priority
2010-05-12 13:01:02 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
d7095dd470 Document DBUS address env vars 2010-05-11 22:35:59 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
8315eb77d5 Some documentation tweaks
Add links to the D-Bus docs in some places, and various
other additions.
2010-05-09 01:44:11 -04:00
David Zeuthen
5134a1d151 GDBus: Document environment variables in "Running GIO applications" 2010-05-07 14:36:07 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
f14e30818c Mention D-Bus functionality in the overview 2010-05-06 18:15:00 -04:00
Matthias Clasen
bd273f9e09 Merge the GSettings docs 2010-04-17 00:31:41 -04:00
Alexander Larsson
6ea86cc57f Update the docs for the new network APIs
This imports the network APIs into the gio reference docs, and cleans
up a bunch of gtk-doc warnings and documentation issues.
2009-05-18 13:07:43 +02:00
Matthias Clasen
981f9ed840 Avoid a filename conflict
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7192
2008-07-16 06:30:12 +00:00
A. Walton
096201834d Adds GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable support, closing bug #523039.
2008-03-28  A. Walton  <awalton@svn.gnome.org>

	* giomodule.c (_g_io_modules_ensure_loaded):
	Adds GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable support, closing bug 
	#523039.


svn path=/trunk/; revision=6768
2008-03-28 14:31:09 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
663d15d1a6 Document GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6739
2008-03-19 20:36:56 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
f21fdabf2a Additions
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6494
2008-02-11 07:18:56 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
04213a8f72 Additions
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6359
2008-01-23 06:24:27 +00:00
Alexander Larsson
67586ddfa4 Some minor fixes and additions.
2007-12-19  Alexander Larsson  <alexl@redhat.com>

        * gio/migrating.xml:
        * gio/overview.xml:
	Some minor fixes and additions.


svn path=/trunk/; revision=6154
2007-12-19 11:19:12 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
2df62bf0ed Flesh out the docs
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6150
2007-12-18 03:14:39 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
c0cc7663cb Additions
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6148
2007-12-18 00:56:35 +00:00
Matthias Clasen
66ff85f3ac Stub of a migration chapter Stub of an overview Overview diagram taken
2007-12-17  Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * gio/migration.xml: Stub of a migration chapter
        * gio/overview.xml: Stub of an overview
        * gio/gvfs-overview.{odg,png}: Overview diagram taken
        from Alex Guadec slides.

        * gio/Makefile.am:
        * gio/gio-docs.xml: Include these


svn path=/trunk/; revision=6145
2007-12-17 17:28:40 +00:00