Adds g_key_file_ref and g_key_file_unref, to be used by a future
GKeyFile boxed type for language bindings.
Based on the patch by Christian Persch and Emmanuele Bassi.
Author: Christian Persch
Signed-off-by: Johan Dahlin
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Campagna
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590808
When spawning a child process, it is not safe to call setenv() before
the fork() (because setenv() isn't thread-safe), but it's also not
safe to call it after the fork() (because it's not async-signal-safe).
So the only safe way to alter the environment for a child process from
a threaded program is to pass a fully-formed envp array to
exec*/g_spawn*/etc.
So, add g_environ_getenv(), g_environ_setenv(), and
g_environ_unsetenv(), which act like their namesakes, but work on
arbitrary arrays rather than working directly on the environment.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659326
Switch GCond to using monotonic time for timed waits by introducing a
new API based on monotonic time in a gint64: g_cond_wait_until().
Deprecate the old API based on wallclock time in a GTimeVal.
Fix up the gtk-doc for GCond while we're at it: update the examples to
use static-allocated GCond and GMutex and clarify some things a bit.
Also explain the rationale behind using an absolute time instead of a
relative time.
Unlike G_GNUC_... macros, the new G_DEPRECATED[_FOR] are
meant as abstractions that work with different compilers.
Using a new name also lets us restrict it to 'must be placed
before the declaration', which works with more compilers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661438
Add g_main_context_ref_thread_default(), which always returns a
reffed GMainContext, rather than sometimes returning a (non-reffed)
GMainContext, and sometimes returning NULL. This simplifies the
bookkeeping in any code that needs to keep a reference to the
thread-default context for a while.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660994
All locks are now zero-initialised, so we can drop the G_*_INIT macros
for them.
Adjust various users around GLib accordingly and change the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659866
Take out the half-private g_private_init() stuff and replace it with a
G_PRIVATE_INIT macro that allows specifying a GDestroyNotify.
Expose the GPrivate structure in a public header.
Add a g_private_replace() to (sort of) match the functionality of
g_static_mutex_set().
Improve the documentation.
Deprecate g_private_new().
Replace it with g_thread_create_with_stack_size() and a real function
implementation of g_thread_create().
Modify a testcase that was calling g_thread_create_full()
inappropriately (it was using the default values anyway).
Create a deprecated/ directory that we can start moving ancient chunks
of code to. Start with GAllocator, GMemChunk and related APIs.
Also drop all mention of them from the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659427
The boolean values to be returned by a GSourceFunc are always ambiguous,
and even in case of experienced developers then can lead to confusion.
The Perl bindings for GLib have two simple constants, mapping to TRUE
and FALSE, that make the return values less confusing: G_SOURCE_CONTINUE
and G_SOURCE_REMOVE respectively.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631413
Change the unix signal watch API to match other sources in both
available functions, names of those functions and order of the
parameters to the _full function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657705
Several different codebases in GNOME want to implement wall clocks.
While we could pretty easily share a private library, it's not a
substantial amount of code, and GLib already has a lot of the
necessary system-specific detection and handling infrastructure.
Note this initial implementation just wakes up once a second in the
cancel_on_set case; we'll add the Linux-specific handling in a
subsequent commit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
The main rationale for adding it was to avoid having gnome-shell
mmap'ing /etc/localtime once a second. However, we can just as easily
run inotify there, and given no one else was clamoring for a way to
detect when the time zone changes, I don't see a need for public API
here - at least not yet.
In the bigger picture, I just don't believe that the vast majority of
applications are going to go out of their way to instantiate and keep
around a random GTimeZoneMonitor class. And if they do, it's has the
side effect that for other bits of code in the process, local GDateTime
instances may start varying again!
So, if code can't rely on local GDateTime instances being in a
consistent state anyways, let's just do that always. The
documentation now says that this is the case. Applications have
always been able to work in a consistent local time zone by
instantiating a zone and then using it for GDateTime constructors.
We fix the "gnome-shell stats /etc/localtime once a second" issue by
using timerfd (in glib) and inotify (in gnome-shell).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
At the same time, also add g_mkdtemp_full and g_dir_make_tmp
variants. The patch also unifies the unique-name-generating
code for all variants of mkstemp and mkdtemp and adds tests
for the new functions.
Based on patches by Paolo Bonzini,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118563
This implements g_hmac_xxx() functionality using the standard checksum
functions supported by glib.
HMAC is a secure way to hash a key and a password. Many other
approaches fraught with append and prepend issues.
Includes test cases defined in relevant RFCs
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652480
This commit changes GLib size units policy. We now prefer SI units and
allow for use of proper IEC units where desired.
g_format_size_for_display() which incorrectly mixed IEC units with SI
suffixes is left unmodified, but has been deprecated.
g_format_size() has been introduced which uses SI units and suffixes.
g_format_size_full() has also been added which takes a flags argument to
allow for use of IEC units (with correct suffixes). It also allows for
a "long format" output which includes the total number of bytes. For
example: "238.5 MB (238,472,938 bytes)".
Add G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY along with accessor functions
g_variant_new_objv, g_variant_get_objv and g_variant_dup_objv. Also add
support for '^ao' and '^a&o' format strings for g_variant_new() and
g_variant_get().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654955
This function implements the following logic:
if (g_variant_is_floating (value))
g_variant_ref_sink (value);
which is used for consuming the return value of callbacks that may or
may not return floating references.
This patch also replaces a few instances of the above code with the new
function (GSettings, GDBus) and lifts a long-standing restriction on the
use of floating values as the return value for signal handlers by
improving g_value_take_variant().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627974
The function can be used to let regex compile non-NUL-terminated
strings without redesigning the way the pattern is stored in GRegex
objects and retrieved with g_regex_get_pattern.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615895
- remove all inline assembly versions
- implement the atomic operations using either GCC intrinsics, the
Windows interlocked API or a mutex-based fallback
- drop gatomic-gcc.c since these are now defined in the header file.
Adjust Makefile.am accordingly.
- expand the set of operations: support 'get', 'set', 'compare and
exchange', 'add', 'or', and 'xor' for both integers and pointers
- deprecate g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add since g_atomic_int_add (as
with all the new arithmetic operations) now returns the prior value
- unify the use of macros: all functions are now wrapped in macros that
perform the proper casts and checks
- remove G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS use; it was never required for the integer
operations (since casting between pointers that only vary in
signedness of the target is explicitly permitted) and we avoid the
need for the pointer operations by using simple 'void *' instead of
'gpointer *' (which caused the 'type-punned pointer' warning)
- provide function implementations of g_atomic_int_inc and
g_atomic_int_dec_and_test: these were strictly macros before
- improve the documentation to make it very clear exactly which types
of pointers these operations may be used with
- remove a few uses of the now-deprecated g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add
- drop initialisation of gatomic from gthread (by using a GStaticMutex
instead of a GMutex)
- update glib.symbols and documentation sections files
Closes#650823 and #650935