Prevent the situation where errno is set by function A, then function B
is called (which is typically _(), but could be anything else) and it
overwrites errno, then errno is checked by the caller.
errno is a horrific API, and we need to be careful to save its value as
soon as a function call (which might set it) returns. i.e. Follow the
pattern:
int errsv, ret;
ret = some_call_which_might_set_errno ();
errsv = errno;
if (ret < 0)
puts (strerror (errsv));
This patch implements that pattern throughout GLib. There might be a few
places in the test code which still use errno directly. They should be
ported as necessary. It doesn’t modify all the call sites like this:
if (some_call_which_might_set_errno () && errno == ESOMETHING)
since the refactoring involved is probably more harmful than beneficial
there. It does, however, refactor other call sites regardless of whether
they were originally buggy.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785577
The g_file_copy() documentation didn't mention if
G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA was applicable or not, and users were led to
call g_file_copy_attributes() to specify it after the g_file_copy()
call, unless they checked the source (been there, done that).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784037
This is small enough that it shouldn't cause problems on most machines
we support, but big enough to increase throughput on a lot of devices
and network protocols.
Note that the actual value is 256k minus malloc overhead, so that it
fits nicely in a 256k block (as suggested by Alexander Larsson).
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773632https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773823
If we have an input parameter (or return value) we need to use (nullable).
However, if it is an (inout) or (out) parameter, (optional) is sufficient.
It looks like (nullable) could be used for everything according to the
Annotation documentation, but (optional) is more specific.
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
In g_file_make_directory_with_parents(), the my_error variable is used
for several different purposes throughout the whole function, not all of
which are obvious. This explains the situation with some comments.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719455
So shortcut it.
I wrote this patch less as a performance optimization and more as a
clarification, so that people looking at the code can be assured of this
invariant.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738374
A critical message is printed when a parameter of g_file_equal() is not
a GFile. When we read the documentation before this commit, we can think
that passing NULL or another type than GFile is allowed, but it is not
the case.
Another option is to allow NULL parameters. But for consistency with
e.g. g_str_equal(), it's probably better to keep the code as is.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732357
Add a note to the documentation for g_file_new_for_commandline_arg()
that this function is intended to operate on strings already in the GLib
filename encoding on Windows.
This has been the case for a long time, but this documents the
requirement.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722025
Usually async methods copy/ref its arguments so caller can
forget about them. g_file_replace_contents_async() and
g_output_stream_write_async() are exceptions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690525
Assume unix platforms support the original POSIX.1 standard.
Specifically, assume that if G_OS_UNIX, then we have chown(),
getcwd(), getgrgid(), getpwuid(), link(), <grp.h>, <pwd.h>,
<sys/types.h>, <sys/uio.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <unistd.h>.
Additionally, since all versions of Windows that we care about also
have <sys/types.h>, we can remove HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H checks everywhere.
Also remove one include of <sys/times.h>, and the corresponding
configure check, since the include is not currently needed (and may
always have just been a typo for <sys/time.h>).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
It's not difficult to do; not all backends implement it, and for some
it may be difficult to implement query_info_on_read(), so let's just
do both.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706254
