These were meant to provide the ability to use GLib directly out of its
build tree but have a couple of rather serious limitations that prevent
their serious use:
- these files only worked with programs built using libtool
- for non-trivial uses, other environment variables will need to be
setup to allow GLib to function properly
- the system doesn't stack well when attempting to use multiple
libraries all uninstalled
The jhbuild --prefix= style system works much better in every way, so we
remove this old hack.
Document the previously uncovered case of calling g_spawn_async_with_pipes()
without a full path but no G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH. This runs programs from the
current directory, which might be unexpected and even dangerous in some corner
cases.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656621
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
Add functions for manipulating the environment under which a
GAppLaunchContext will launch its children, to avoid thread-related
bugs with using setenv() directly.
FIXME: win32 side isn't implemented yet
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659326
gutils.[hc] is a bit of a grab bag, so lets start cleaning
things up by moving all the environment-related functions
into separate genviron.[hc] files.
The private _g_getenv_nomalloc has been moved to its sole caller.
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
