Restructure the section of the how-to which covers the header and source
code boilerplate for declaring and defining GObjects to use the new
G_DECLARE_*_TYPE macros. Present both final and derivable types.
Trim various supporting paragraphs.
Rename ‘class functions’ to ‘virtual functions’ to use consistent,
modern terminology.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744060
This will prevent attempting to read from some files that appear normal but are
really device-like, such as those in /proc and /sys.
If we can't stat() the file then don't bother attempting to sniff, either.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708525
FreeBSD and NetBSD have field st_birthtim and st_birthtime in struct stat,
respectively, which can be used to get file creation time on supported file
systems such as UFS2 and tmpfs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749492
gvfs commit b358ca "Make sure metadata is always returned by
query_writable_namespaces()" changed the
query_writable_namespaces vfunc to never return NULL, but the error
checking in g_daemon_file_query_writable_namespaces still assumes vfunc
failure implies NULL return value and GError set. This causes a memory
leak as on failure the GError will be set but the vfunc implementation
will have created its own default list so NULL will not be returned, and
the GError will never be cleared.
This commit directly checks if the GError is set to detect failures,
my_error is directly dereferenced in the error block anyway.
This also removes an unneeded call to g_file_attribute_info_new(); as
the vfunc always returns us a non-NULL GFileAttributeInfoList.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747364
These tests clear up a misunderstanding of mine: Monitoring
nonexisting files and directories *does* work with the inotify
implementation, it just has a very long timeout for scanning
for missing locations, so the test needs to take that into
account.
This is meant for opaque, non-POSIX-like backends to indicate that the
URI is not persistent. Applications should look at
G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_SYMLINK_TARGET for the persistent URI.
Examples of such backends could be a portal for letting sandboxed
applications access the file-system, or a database-backed storage like
Google Drive.
In these cases, the user visible file and folder names are different
from the real identifiers, used by the backend. So, a request to
create google-drive://user@gmail.com/foo/New\ File, would actually
lead to google-drive://user@gmail.com/foo/bar on the server even though
the user visible name is still "New File". Since the server-defined URI
is persistent and sanity-checked by the backend, it is recommended that
applications switch to it as soon as possible. Backends will try to
keep a mapping from "fake" to "real" URIs, but those are only on a
best effort basis. They might not be persistent or have the same
guarantees as the "real" URIs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741602
g_dbus_method_invocation_return_value(), etc, don't have GError
parameters (which makes sense since they won't usually return errors,
and there's not much you could do if they did), so in the rare case
when something does go wrong, they print a warning.
However, there is at least one situation where the warning is a bad
idea: if you are using private bus connections, and a client connects,
makes a request, and then disconnects before getting the response.
Given that there's nothing the caller can do to prevent this case from
getting hit (since the client might not disconnect until after the
call to g_dbus_method_invocation_return_value() starts) and given that
the server can never actually know for sure that the client has
received the response (it might disconnect after reading the response,
but before processing it), just kill the warning in this case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753839
Add a new test which checks that atomically replacing a file that
is being monitored by GFileMonitor produced the expected events.
The test can easily be expanded to cover other file monitoring
scenarios.
After the big file monitoring rewrite, we only put the IN_MOVED_FROM event
in the queue for such pairs. It matches INOTIFY_DIR_MASK and thus we call
ip_dispatch_event on it, but that function was filtering it out because
the filename in the 'from' event is the one of the temp file, not the
one we are monitoring. That name is in the 'to' event, so compare it as
well, and let the event passin that case.
There is another instance of this check in glocalfilemonitor.c, which is
corrected here as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751358
It seems to be common for people to use g_warning() or g_error() as pre-
and post-condition error reporting functions, which is not really what
they’re intended for. Similarly, it is generally a sign of bad API
design to use g_warning() to report errors — use GError instead.
Try and suggest this to the user in the hope that nice code results.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
It’s quite common to see naked g_signal_connect() calls without a paired
g_signal_handler_disconnect(). This is commonly a bug which could lead
to uses of the callback user data after it’s been freed.
Document the best practices for avoiding this kind of bug by properly
disconnecting all signal handlers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
It’s very common to see code where a timeout is scheduled using
g_timeout_add(), yet the owning object could be destroyed shortly
afterwards, before the timeout is fired, leading to use-after-free.
Try and prevent this happening with new code by documenting best
practices for memory management of user data for GSource callbacks.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
Make it a little easier to find the GType conventions page, which I
guess should be the canonical guide to how to name things.
This adds a brief mention of the valid characters in a type name to the
conventions page.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743018
It’s unfortunately common to see worker threads being spawned all over
the place to do operations which could be brought into the main thread
with an async call, simplifying everything.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
…and friends. The ‘String precision pitfalls’ section is already linked
to from all the relevant printf()-style functions, so this documentation
should hopefully be easy to find.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
This is a binding-friendly version of g_dbus_connection_register_object.
Based on a patch by Martin Pitt and the code of g_bus_watch_name_with_closures.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656325
exit-on-close for a DBus connection is a completely normal thing. On
a regular GNOME login, gdm retains the X server, but terminates the
session login bus and associated helpers like gnome-settings-dameon,
the a11y tools, etc.
I've seen several downstream reports of confusion as to what these
apparent error messages mean in the system log. It doesn't help
that they're so obtuse.
We're also printing them to stderr, when this is not an error.
The reason this was introduced is presumably some people were confused
as to why their process exited when the system bus did. But the
solution for that I believe is documentation, not printing stuff to
everyone's system log in normal operation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742386
The previous commit introduced a possible memory leak in cases
where we get a G_IO_ERROR_CLOSED error. Make sure to always
free an error, if we got one.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753278
There are real world cases where emitting signals can fail, such
as if the DBus connection closes. Asserting and aborting the process
in these cases is just plain lazy.
Ignore the errors when the connection is closed, and turn the
others into warnings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753278
