glib_debug is an auto option. This is clever because it allows us to
guess the best default based on the build type, while also allowing an
easy way to override if the guess is not good. Sadly, the attempt to
guess based on the build type does not work well. For example, it
considers debugoptimized builds to be debug builds, but despite the
name, it is definitely a release build type (except on Windows, which
we'll ignore here). The minsize build type has the exact same problem.
The debug option is true for both build types, but this only controls
whether debuginfo is enabled, not whether debug extras are enabled.
The plain build type has a different problem: debug is off, but the
optimization option is off too, even though plain builds are distro
builds are will almost always use optimization.
I've outlined an argument for why we should make these changes here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/07/15/best-practices-for-build-options/
Specifically, Rule 4 shows all the build types and whether they
correspond to release builds or debug builds. Rule 6 argues that we
should provide good defaults for plain builds.
Cast checks are slow. We seem to have some rough consensus that they are
important for debug builds, but not for release builds. Problem is, very
few apps define G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS for release builds. Worse, it's
undocumented, so there's no way apps could even be expected to know
about it.
We can get the right default is almost all situations by making this
depend on the __OPTIMIZE__ preprocessor definition. This is a GCC-specific
thing, although Clang supports it too. If the compiler does not define
__OPTIMIZE__, then this commit does no harm: you can still use
G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS as before. When checking __OPTIMIZE__, we are
supposed to ensure our code has the same behavior as it would if we do
not, which will be true except in case the check fails (which is
programmer error).
Downside: this will not automatically do the right thing with -Og,
because __OPTIMIZE__ is always defined to 1. We don't want to disable
cast checks automatically if using -O0 or -Og. There's no way to
automatically fix this, but we can create an escape hatch by allowing
you to define G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS=0 to force-enable cast checks. In
practice, I don't think this matters much because -Og kinda failed:
GCC's man page says it should be a superior debugging experience to -O0,
but it optimizes variables away so it's definitely not.
Another downside: this is bad if you really *do* want cast checks in
release builds. The same solution applies: define
G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS=0 and you'll get your cast checks.
A file-descriptor was created with the introduction of pidfd_getfd() but
nothing is closing it when the source finalizes. The GChildWatchSource is
the creator and consumer of this FD and therefore responsible for closing
it on finalization.
The pidfd leak was introduced in !2408.
This fixes issues with Builder where anon_inode:[pidfd] exhaust the
available FD limit for the process.
Fixes#2708
gio tool has support for deleting attributes of the file. To delete attribute user
should specify type '--type="unset"'. This is not mentioned in help and therefore not
intuitive. By adding '-d' option, we make this process more obvious.
closes#2588
man pcre2_pattern_info says that the 3rd argument must
point to uint32_t variable (except for some 2nd argument value),
so correctly use it. Especially using wrong size can cause
unexpected result on big endian.
closes: #2699
The prefix for GMarkupParseFlags enumeration members is G_MARKUP; this
means that G_MARKUP_PARSE_FLAGS_NONE gets split into
GLib.MarkupParseFlags.PARSE_FLAGS_NONE by the introspection scanner.
The `/*< nick=none >*/` trigraph attribute is a glib-mkenum thing, and
does not affect the introspection scanner; it would also only affect the
GEnumValue nickname, which is not used by language bindings to resolve
the name of the enumeration member. Plus, GMarkupParseFlags does not
have a corresponding GType anyway.
The prefix is G_TLS_CERTIFICATE, not G_TLS_CERTIFICATE_FLAGS. Having
G_TLS_CERTIFICATE_FLAGS_NONE leads to a FLAGS_NONE nick in the GType,
and a FLAGS_NONE member name in the introspection data.
Enumeration members should either have the name of the type as their
prefix, or they should all have the same prefix.
The "default flags" enumeration member for GApplicationFlags is
unfortunately named G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE, while every other member
of the same type has a G_APPLICATION prefix. The result is that the nick
name of the enumeration member is "flags-none", and that language
bindings will have to use something like
Gio.ApplicationFlags.FLAGS_NONE.
To fix this API wart, we can deprecate the FLAGS_NONE member, and add a
new DEFAULT_FLAGS.
If stdout is the Journal but stderr is not, then we probably only want
to redirect stdout, or vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
I want to use this in gio-launch-desktop, but gio-launch-desktop
doesn't depend on GLib, so I can't just call g_log_writer_is_journald().
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This prevents a launched process's output from being mixed up with the
output of the parent process, which can lead to the wrong program being
blamed for warning messages.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This is an internal helper executable, which users shouldn't invoke
directly (see glib#1633).
When building for a single-architecture distribution, we can install
it as ${libexecdir}/gio-launch-desktop.
When building for a multiarch distribution, installing it into an
architecture-specific location and packaging it alongside the GLib
library avoids the problem discussed in glib#1633 where it would either
cause a circular dependency between the GLib library and a common
cross-architecture package (libglib2.0-bin in Debian), or require a
separate package just to contain gio-launch-desktop, or cause different
architectures' copies to overwrite each other.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
gio-launch-desktop was removed before checking GIO for potentially
unsafe environment variable references, so reverting its removal brought
this one back. If a setuid program is using GAppInfo then something is
probably already horribly wrong, but let's be careful anyway.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
A shell one-liner was enough to set GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID,
but ideally we also want to do the equivalent of sd_journal_stream_fd()
to set up its standard output and standard error streams.
Ideally we would call sd_journal_stream_fd() in a process that will
exec the real program, otherwise it will report the wrong process ID
in the Journal, but we can't easily do that in a forked child when
using posix_spawn() for subprocesses.
This reverts commit 2b533ca99a.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
