In Windows development environments that have it, <unistd.h> is mostly
just a wrapper around several other native headers (in particular,
<io.h>, which contains read(), close(), etc, and <process.h>, which
contains getpid()). But given that some Windows dev environments don't
have <unistd.h>, everything that uses those functions on Windows
already needed to include the correct Windows header as well, and so
there is never any point to including <unistd.h> on Windows.
Also, remove some <unistd.h> includes (and a few others) that were
unnecessary even on unix.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
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
Assume all supported platforms implement C90, and therefore they
(correctly) implement atexit(), memmove(), setlocale(), strerror(),
and vprintf(), and have <float.h> and <limits.h>.
(Also remove the configure check testing that "do ... while (0)" works
correctly; the non-do/while-based version of G_STMT_START and
G_STMT_END was removed years ago, but the check remained. Also, remove
some checks that configure.ac claimed were needed for libcharset, but
aren't actually used.)
Note that removing the g_memmove() function is not an ABI break even
on systems where g_memmove() was previously not a macro, because it
was never marked GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL or listed in glib.symbols, so
it would have been glib-internal since 2004.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
Remove workarounds for NeXTStep (last released in 1995), SunOS (1994),
HP-UX 9.x (1992) and 10.x (1995), OSF/1 / Digital UNIX / Tru64 UNIX
4.x (1999), and AIX 4.x (1999).
HP-UX 11 implements dlopen(), so dropping support for earlier versions
also lets us remove the HP-UX-specific gmodule-dld.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
Since the initial addition of BeOS support in 1999, there has only
been one update to it (in 2005, and it wasn't even very big). GLib is
known to not currently build on Haiku (or presumably actual BeOS)
without additional patching, and the fact that there isn't a single
G_OS_BEOS check in gio/ is suspicious.
Additionally, other than the GModule implementation, all of the
existing G_OS_BEOS checks are either (a) "G_OS_UNIX || G_OS_BEOS", or
(b) random minor POSIXy tweaks (include this header file rather than
that one, etc), suggesting that if we were going to support Haiku, it
would probably be simpler to treat it as a special kind of G_OS_UNIX
(as we do with Mac OS X) rather than as its own completely different
thing.
So, kill G_OS_BEOS.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
g_init_user_config_dir() is already declared as static in this gutils.c
file, so just remove the redundant declaration.
Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710345
On UNIX, we should only ever be looking at TMPDIR.
On Windows, we should only ever look at TEMP.
Also, clean up the documentation to better describe what is actually
happening. The previous docs may have left someone confused about why
this function returns "/var/tmp" on Solaris, even with no TMPDIR set.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705075
Back in the far-off twentieth century, it was normal on unix
workstations for U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT to be drawn as "‛" and for U+0027
APOSTROPHE to be drawn as "’". This led to the convention of using
them as poor-man's ‛smart quotes’ in ASCII-only text.
However, "'" is now universally drawn as a vertical line, and "`" at a
45-degree angle, making them an `odd couple' when used together.
Unfortunately, there are lots of very old strings in glib, and also
lots of new strings in which people have kept up the old tradition,
perhaps entirely unaware that it used to not look stupid.
Fix this by just using 'dumb quotes' everywhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700746
set/endpwent are only required for iterating through passwd entries
using getpwent(). Since we are explicitly requesting a passwd entry
for a uid then the set/endpwent calls are redundant.
Removing these redundant calls is required for building on Android
since their C library doesn't implement these.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645881
In the case that the "HOME" environment variable is set (as it is under
normal circumstances), we don't really need to be opening /etc/passwd.
For historical reasons (ie: how we used to ignore $HOME) and due to the
grouping of many unrelated things together (reading username, hostname,
home directory, tmpdir, etc.) into one function we were still opening
/etc/passwd in g_get_home_dir(), even if $HOME was set.
Since earlier commits removed code from it, all that remains in
g_get_any_init_do() is the logic for dealing with $HOME and reading the
password database.
We now split the logic to deal with $HOME into g_get_home_dir(). With
only the password database functionality remaining, g_get_any_init_do()
is renamed to g_get_user_database_entry() and modified not to set global
variables but rather return a struct. If g_get_home_dir() cannot find
$HOME, it falls back to calling g_get_user_database_entry() and using
the home directory from there.
Use of the 'g_utils_global' lock is further reduced by using
g_once_init_enter() to protect the critical sections in each of
g_get_user_database_entry() and g_get_home_dir().
Finally, the g_get_user_name() and g_get_real_name() functions are
modified to use the new regime.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693204
Some code was directly calling g_get_any_init() and then expecting to be
able to use the static 'g_home_dir' variable directly. Change these
over to g_get_home_dir() instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693204
This is a source-compatible change and only breaks ABI with respect to
truly ancient binaries (and those binaries are already broken for other
reasons).
Back in the day, functions like g_get_user_name() used to return strings
in the system codepage instead of utf8 (as they do today).
It was decided at some point to change these functions to return utf8,
breaking source compatibility but keeping ABI compatibility. This was
done by exporting new symbols with names like g_get_user_name_utf8() and
using a #define of the old name over to the new name (so that newly
compiled code would link against the _utf8 version, but old binaries
would continue to use the non-utf8 variant).
Meanwhile, glib has undergone several ABI breaks on Windows since, so
those old binaries don't work anymore.
Start to clean up this mess by removing the #define renaming. New
binaries calling g_get_user_name() will now link against
g_get_user_name() and it will return utf8.
We must keep the functions like g_get_user_name_utf8() for binary
compatibility with recently built programs (ie: ones built with the
renaming). Nobody should have ever been calling these directly and of
course they can return utf8, so just add them as internal wrappers in the
.c file and declare them _GLIB_EXTERN there.
One day, if we feel like breaking Windows ABI again, we can finish the
cleanup by dropping the wrappers. There is some talk of introducing
something like 'ABI compatible for two years' and this change would be
compatible with such a regime.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693204
If the $HOME environment variable is set, prefer that to the entry in
/etc/passwd.
This brings us in line with almost every other utility and library on
UNIX-like systems while avoiding some of the more complicated
possibilities that have been suggested.
This incompatible change has been petitioned for quite some time by
many, and in particular from the Debian world, which carries a patch
that adds a new G_HOME environment variable with the same meaning as
this patch now assigns to HOME.
The primary motivation for the change was to increase the testability of
GLib-based programs from 'make check' types of frameworks: it is now
possible to set HOME to a temp directory to avoid the testsuite
modifying the user's real home directory.
The change also brings us increased compliance with the XDG Base
Directory Specification. The specification specifically states that the
default values should be computed based on the HOME environment
variable, whereas we were basing them on the value from /etc/passwd.
The change was agreed to by all in attendence at the November 29 Gtk+
developer meeting.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142568
The GLib units policy used to be that 'KB' means 1024 bytes, 'MB' means
1024 KB, 'GB' means 1024 MB, etc.
Those days are over, but we have a deprecated function that still works
that way. It contains the string "KB", marked for translation, which
has been a source of confusion for translators on multiple occasions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687516
Some programs attempt to use libglib (or even libgio) when setuid.
For a long time, GTK+ simply aborted if launched in this
configuration, but we never had a real policy for GLib.
I'm not sure whether we should advertise such support. However, given
that there are real-world programs that do this currently, we can make
them safer with not too much effort.
Better to fix a problem caused by an interaction between two
components in *both* places if possible.
This patch adds a private function g_check_setuid() which is used to
first ensure we don't run an external dbus-launch binary if
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS isn't set.
Second, we also ensure the local VFS is used in this case. The
gdaemonvfs extension point will end up talking to the session bus
which is typically undesirable in a setuid context.
Implementing g_check_setuid() is interesting - whether or not we're
running in a privilege-escalated path is operating system specific.
Note that GTK+'s code to check euid versus uid worked historically on
Unix, more modern systems have filesystem capabilities and SELinux
domain transitions, neither of which are captured by the uid
comparison.
On Linux/glibc, the way this works is that the kernel sets an
AT_SECURE flag in the ELF auxiliary vector, and glibc looks for it on
startup. If found, then glibc sets a public-but-undocumented
__libc_enable_secure variable which we can use. Unfortunately, while
it *previously* worked to check this variable, a combination of newer
binutils and RPM break it:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/14/1
So for now on Linux/glibc, we fall back to the historical Unix version
until we get glibc fixed.
On some BSD variants, there is a issetugid() function. On other Unix
variants, we fall back to what GTK+ has been doing.
Reported-By: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
We handle a special case for G_USER_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP
when we init the values but drop it when we reload them.
Fix this by preferring old values to NULL
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676594
Signed-off-by: Marc-Antoine Perennou <Marc-Antoine@Perennou.com>
-Move _glib_get_locale_dir to ggettext.c, as Matthias suggested
-Made up for the headers that needed to be included in ggettext.c to avoid
C4013 (implicit declaration of ...) errors/warnings
Split win32 functions off into their own section, instead
of having large and unwieldy ifdef sections inside each function.
Also move the compat versions of env functions over from gutils.c
