Add a pair of functions to make it easier to do simple string matching.
This will be useful for use with things like GtkSearchBar and will also
be the basis of the searching done by the (soon to appear)
g_desktop_app_info_search()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709753
Mark 'test', 'test-report', 'perf-report' and 'full-report' as PHONY in
docs/Makefile.am to prevent recursion of gtester into the documentation
subdirectories. Stop including Makefile.decl from these directories
since it is no longer necessary.
This will clear up the warnings about EXTRA_DIST being defined once in
gtk-doc.make and again in Makefile.decl.
Add a pair of functions for returning strings that don't need to be
freed. This is a bit of a hack but it will turn the 99% case of using
these functions from:
gchar *tmp;
tmp = g_test_build_filename (...);
fd = open (tmp, ...);
g_free (tmp);
to:
fd = open (g_test_get_filename (...), ...);
which is a pretty substantial win.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549783
g_test_trap_fork() doesn't work on Windows and is potentially flaky on
unix anyway given the fork-but-don't-exec. Replace it with
g_test_trap_subprocess(), which re-spawns the same program with
arguments telling it to run a specific (otherwise-ignored) test case.
Make the existing g_test_trap_fork() unit tests be unix-only (they
never passed on Windows anyway), and add a parallel set of
g_test_trap_subprocess() tests.
Also fix the logic of gtestutils's "-p" argument (which is used by the
subprocess tests); previously if you had tests "/foo/bar" and
"/foo/bar/baz", and ran the test program with "-p /foo/bar/baz", it
would run "/foo/bar" too. Fix that and add tests.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679683
Lots of people have variously asked for APIs like
g_variant_new_string_printf() in order to avoid having to use
g_strdup_printf(), create a GVariant using g_variant_new_string(), then
free the temporary string.
Instead of supporting that, plus a million other potential cases,
introduce g_variant_new_take_string() as a compromise.
It's not possible to write:
v = g_variant_new_take_string (g_strdup_printf (....));
to get the desired result and avoid the extra copies. In addition, it
works with many other functions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698455
There are two benefits to this:
1) We can centralize any operating system specific knowledge of
close-vs-EINTR handling. For example, while on Linux we should never
retry, if someone cared enough later about HP-UX, they could come by
and change this one spot.
2) For places that do care about the return value and want to provide
the caller with a GError, this function makes it convenient to do so.
Note that gspawn.c had an incorrect EINTR loop-retry around close().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682819
Adding file descriptors to a GSource provides similar functionality to
the old g_source_add_poll() API with two main differences.
First: the list of handles is managed internally and therefore users are
prevented from randomly modifying the ->events field. This prepares us
for an epoll future where changing the event mask is a syscall.
Second: keeping the list internally allows us to check the ->revents for
events for ourselves, allowing the source to skip implementing
check/prepare. This also prepares us for the future by allowing an
implementation that doesn't need to iterate over all of the sources
every time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686853
g_test_trap_fork() doesn't work on Windows and is potentially flaky on
unix anyway given the fork-but-don't-exec. Replace it with
g_test_trap_subprocess(), which re-spawns the same program with
arguments telling it to run a specific (otherwise-ignored) test case.
Make the existing g_test_trap_fork() unit tests be unix-only (they
never passed on Windows anyway), and add a parallel set of
g_test_trap_subprocess() tests.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679683
When running a test program (ie, if g_test_init() has been called),
don't pop up a dialog box when a fatal error occurs. Just print the
message to stderr and exit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679683
The previous fix didn't work, because every place within glib that
used any of the functions also needed to be including win32compat.h.
So, move the prototypes back to their original headers (but at least
all in one place at the bottom).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688109
To avoid -Wmissing-prototype warnings, we need to prototype both the
original and the _utf8 versions of all of the functions that have had
_utf8-renaming on Windows. But duplicating all the prototypes is ugly,
so rather than doing them "in-place", move them all to a new header
file just for that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688109
For some time now people have been asking for a way to check for type
compatibility between GVariant instances and format strings. There are
several APIs inside of GLib itself that would benefit from this.
This patch introduces a way to do that.
Add a variant of g_markup_collect_attributes() which will
ignore unknown attributes (such as those from different XML
namespaces) when parsing markup, rather than returning
G_MARKUP_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ATTRIBUTE as g_markup_collect_attributes()
does.
Patch by Philip Withnall,
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665634
I don't see a good reason for this - if man page generation is
disabled, man pages are not produced, and things like 'make dist'
will fail. That is simpler and better.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681336
Because of the '--as-needed' default option
for the linker, the linking will fail, if the
file name appears after any of the options or
the pkg-config invocation.
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681854
Use $(AM_V_GEN) for generating man pages, and set some parameters
for the XSL stylesheets. Among other things, don't generate AUTHORS
and COPYRIGHT sections.
Many (if not "almost all") programs that spawn other programs via
g_spawn_sync() or the like simply want to check whether or not the
child exited successfully, but doing so requires use of
platform-specific functionality and there's actually a fair amount of
boilerplate involved.
This new API will help drain a *lot* of mostly duplicated code in
GNOME, from gnome-session to gdm. And we can see that some bits even
inside GLib were doing it wrong; for example checking the exit status
on Unix, but ignoring it on Windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679691
The docs for GString should really mention GByteArray, and what makes
it different. Drop the comparison to Java which is dated and actually
inaccurate (because StringBuffer operates on Unicode).
While we're here, add g_string_free_to_bytes(), which further
complements the spread of GBytes-based API. For example, one can
create a buffer using GString, then send it off via
g_output_stream_write_bytes().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677064
They make a full (deep) copy of a list.
In contrast with g_[s]list_copy(), these functions take a function as a argument
to make a copy of each list element, in addition to copying the list container itself.
The functions g_[s]list_copy() were reimplemented to just call the new functions
with NULL as the function argument, which will behave like current implementation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675024
The way gtk-doc works, we need compiling.sgml in both
content_files (to make sure it ends up in the disted tarball)
and in expand_content_files (to have references expanded).
There are cases when it should be possible to define at compile time
what range of functions and types should be used, in order to get,
or restrict, the compiler warnings for deprecated or newly added
types or functions.
For instance, if GLib introduces a deprecation warning on a type in
version 2.32, application code can decide to specify the minimum and
maximum boundary of the used API to be 2.30; when compiling against
a new version of GLib, this would produce the following results:
- all deprecations introduced prior to 2.32 would emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all deprecations introduced in 2.32 would not emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all new symbols introduced in 2.32 would emit a compiler warning.
Using this scheme it should be possible to have fairly complex
situations, like the following one:
assuming that an application is compiled with:
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED = GLIB_VERSION_2_30
GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED = GLIB_VERSION_2_32
and a GLib header containing:
void function_A (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_26;
void function_B (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_28;
void function_C (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_30;
void function_D (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_32;
void function_E (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_34;
any application code using the above functions will get the following
compiler warnings:
function_A: deprecated symbol warning
function_B: deprecated symbol warning
function_C: no warning
function_D: no warning
function_E: undefined symbol warning
This means that it should be possible to gradually port code towards
non-deprecated API gradually, on a per-release basis.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670542
Add new macros to disable -Wdeprecated-declarations around a piece of
code, using the C99 (and GNU89) _Pragma() operator. Replace the
existing use of #pragma for this in gio, and suppress the warnings in
gvaluearray.c as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669671
Like GPtrArray has a "free function" that can be used to free memory
associated to each pointer in the array, GArray would benefit from
having a "clear function" that can be used to clear the content of
each element of the array when it's removed, or when the entire array
is freed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667243
Raised by Matthias in bgo#665685 but which I didn't spot until after pushing
commit 3ac7c35656.
Renames G_UNICHAR_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN to G_UNICHAR_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LENGTH
and fixes a few documentation issues.
See: bgo#665685
* Represents an immutable reference counted block of memory.
* This is basically the internal glib GBuffer structure exposed,
renamed, and with some additional capabilities.
* The GBytes name comes from python3's immutable 'bytes' type
* GBytes can be safely used as keys in hash tables, and have
functions for doing so: g_bytes_hash, g_bytes_equal
* GByteArray is a mutable form of GBytes, and vice versa. There
are functions for converting from one to the other efficiently:
g_bytes_unref_to_array() and g_byte_array_free_to_bytes()
* Adds g_byte_array_new_take() to support above functions
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663291
Instead of:
warning: ‘g_variant_get_gtype’ is deprecated (declared at ../../gobject/glib-types.h:242): Use '((GType) ((21) << (2)))' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
show:
warning: ‘g_variant_get_gtype’ is deprecated (declared at ../../gobject/glib-types.h:242): Use ''G_VARIANT_GET_TYPE'' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
Also, document the macro-expansion problem in the
G_GNUC_DEPRECATED_FOR docs
The documentation for maybe types failed to mention 'a' as one of the
types that was handled with a single pointer for which NULL means
"nothing". Correct that omission.
Problem caught by Shaun McCance.
We clean up the detection of if we should do 'real' atomic operations or
mutex-emulated ones with the introduction of a new (public) macro:
G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE. If defined, our atomic operations are guaranteed to
be done in hardware.
We need to use __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 to determine if our
compiler supports GCC-style atomic operations from the gatomic.h header
because we might be building a program against GLib using a different
set of compiler options (or a different compiler) than was used to build
GLib itself.
Unfortunately, this macro is not available on clang, so it has currently
regressed to using the mutex emulation. A bug about that has been
opened here:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11174
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
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
Some code using GLib (gnome-keyring-daemon, for example) assumes that
they can catch signals by masking them out in the main thread and
calling sigwait() from a worker.
The problem is that our new worker thread catches the signals before
sigwait() has a chance and the default action occurs (typically
resulting in program termination).
If we mask all the signals in our worker, then this can't happen.
Switch GCond to using monotonic time for timed waits by introducing a
new API based on monotonic time in a gint64: g_cond_wait_until().
Deprecate the old API based on wallclock time in a GTimeVal.
Fix up the gtk-doc for GCond while we're at it: update the examples to
use static-allocated GCond and GMutex and clarify some things a bit.
Also explain the rationale behind using an absolute time instead of a
relative time.
Unlike G_GNUC_... macros, the new G_DEPRECATED[_FOR] are
meant as abstractions that work with different compilers.
Using a new name also lets us restrict it to 'must be placed
before the declaration', which works with more compilers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661438
Add g_main_context_ref_thread_default(), which always returns a
reffed GMainContext, rather than sometimes returning a (non-reffed)
GMainContext, and sometimes returning NULL. This simplifies the
bookkeeping in any code that needs to keep a reference to the
thread-default context for a while.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660994
All locks are now zero-initialised, so we can drop the G_*_INIT macros
for them.
Adjust various users around GLib accordingly and change the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659866
Take out the half-private g_private_init() stuff and replace it with a
G_PRIVATE_INIT macro that allows specifying a GDestroyNotify.
Expose the GPrivate structure in a public header.
Add a g_private_replace() to (sort of) match the functionality of
g_static_mutex_set().
Improve the documentation.
Deprecate g_private_new().
Replace it with g_thread_create_with_stack_size() and a real function
implementation of g_thread_create().
Modify a testcase that was calling g_thread_create_full()
inappropriately (it was using the default values anyway).
Create a deprecated/ directory that we can start moving ancient chunks
of code to. Start with GAllocator, GMemChunk and related APIs.
Also drop all mention of them from the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659427
Previously, we were returning an empty buffer for all filenames
where fstat() gives a size of 0. But this is only appropriate
for regular files.
Also improve the documentation around this issue. Based on a
patch by Ryan Lortie.
Conflicts:
glib/tests/mappedfile.c
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659212
The boolean values to be returned by a GSourceFunc are always ambiguous,
and even in case of experienced developers then can lead to confusion.
The Perl bindings for GLib have two simple constants, mapping to TRUE
and FALSE, that make the return values less confusing: G_SOURCE_CONTINUE
and G_SOURCE_REMOVE respectively.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631413
Commit ab0e9dbfa7 introduced some changes
to the documentation Makefiles designed to clean-up the process of
deciding which headers get scanned for the docs.
Unfortunately, the gtk-doc Makefile doesn't use HFILE_GLOB for actually
generating the docs -- only for knowing when it needs to redo the
generation. Because of this, we need to use IGNORE_HFILES or otherwise
we get hundreds of symbols in the *-unused.txt files.
Revert the changes that that commit made to the docs Makefiles (but
leave the generation of the *-public-headers.txt files in place).
Change the unix signal watch API to match other sources in both
available functions, names of those functions and order of the
parameters to the _full function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657705
Several different codebases in GNOME want to implement wall clocks.
While we could pretty easily share a private library, it's not a
substantial amount of code, and GLib already has a lot of the
necessary system-specific detection and handling infrastructure.
Note this initial implementation just wakes up once a second in the
cancel_on_set case; we'll add the Linux-specific handling in a
subsequent commit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
The main rationale for adding it was to avoid having gnome-shell
mmap'ing /etc/localtime once a second. However, we can just as easily
run inotify there, and given no one else was clamoring for a way to
detect when the time zone changes, I don't see a need for public API
here - at least not yet.
In the bigger picture, I just don't believe that the vast majority of
applications are going to go out of their way to instantiate and keep
around a random GTimeZoneMonitor class. And if they do, it's has the
side effect that for other bits of code in the process, local GDateTime
instances may start varying again!
So, if code can't rely on local GDateTime instances being in a
consistent state anyways, let's just do that always. The
documentation now says that this is the case. Applications have
always been able to work in a consistent local time zone by
instantiating a zone and then using it for GDateTime constructors.
We fix the "gnome-shell stats /etc/localtime once a second" issue by
using timerfd (in glib) and inotify (in gnome-shell).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
At the same time, also add g_mkdtemp_full and g_dir_make_tmp
variants. The patch also unifies the unique-name-generating
code for all variants of mkstemp and mkdtemp and adds tests
for the new functions.
Based on patches by Paolo Bonzini,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118563
This implements g_hmac_xxx() functionality using the standard checksum
functions supported by glib.
HMAC is a secure way to hash a key and a password. Many other
approaches fraught with append and prepend issues.
Includes test cases defined in relevant RFCs
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652480
This commit changes GLib size units policy. We now prefer SI units and
allow for use of proper IEC units where desired.
g_format_size_for_display() which incorrectly mixed IEC units with SI
suffixes is left unmodified, but has been deprecated.
g_format_size() has been introduced which uses SI units and suffixes.
g_format_size_full() has also been added which takes a flags argument to
allow for use of IEC units (with correct suffixes). It also allows for
a "long format" output which includes the total number of bytes. For
example: "238.5 MB (238,472,938 bytes)".
Add G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY along with accessor functions
g_variant_new_objv, g_variant_get_objv and g_variant_dup_objv. Also add
support for '^ao' and '^a&o' format strings for g_variant_new() and
g_variant_get().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654955
This function implements the following logic:
if (g_variant_is_floating (value))
g_variant_ref_sink (value);
which is used for consuming the return value of callbacks that may or
may not return floating references.
This patch also replaces a few instances of the above code with the new
function (GSettings, GDBus) and lifts a long-standing restriction on the
use of floating values as the return value for signal handlers by
improving g_value_take_variant().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627974
The function can be used to let regex compile non-NUL-terminated
strings without redesigning the way the pattern is stored in GRegex
objects and retrieved with g_regex_get_pattern.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615895
Rather than having the gtk-doc build machinery have a list of header
files to exclude, change the GLib build to dump a list of public
header files generated from the maintained Makefile.am files for
each of glib/, gobject/, gio/.
Also, for glib, always install glib-unix.h, even on non-Unix
platforms, for the same reason we install gwin32.h even on Unix.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651745
- remove all inline assembly versions
- implement the atomic operations using either GCC intrinsics, the
Windows interlocked API or a mutex-based fallback
- drop gatomic-gcc.c since these are now defined in the header file.
Adjust Makefile.am accordingly.
- expand the set of operations: support 'get', 'set', 'compare and
exchange', 'add', 'or', and 'xor' for both integers and pointers
- deprecate g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add since g_atomic_int_add (as
with all the new arithmetic operations) now returns the prior value
- unify the use of macros: all functions are now wrapped in macros that
perform the proper casts and checks
- remove G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS use; it was never required for the integer
operations (since casting between pointers that only vary in
signedness of the target is explicitly permitted) and we avoid the
need for the pointer operations by using simple 'void *' instead of
'gpointer *' (which caused the 'type-punned pointer' warning)
- provide function implementations of g_atomic_int_inc and
g_atomic_int_dec_and_test: these were strictly macros before
- improve the documentation to make it very clear exactly which types
of pointers these operations may be used with
- remove a few uses of the now-deprecated g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add
- drop initialisation of gatomic from gthread (by using a GStaticMutex
instead of a GMutex)
- update glib.symbols and documentation sections files
Closes#650823 and #650935
This new API allows watching a few select Unix signals;
looking through the list on my system, I didn't see anything
else that I think it'd reasonable to watch.
We build on the previous patch to make the child watch helper thread
that existed on Unix handle these signals in the threaded case.
In the non-threaded case, they're just global variables.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644941
GLib historically has been designed to be "mostly" portable; there
are some functions only available on Unix like g_io_channel_unix_new(),
but these are typically paired with obvious counterparts for Win32.
However, as GLib is used not only by portable software, but components
targeting Unix (or even just Linux), there are a few cases where it
would be very convenient if GLib shipped built-in functionality.
This initial patch is a basic wrapper around pipe2(), including
fallbacks for older kernels. This pairs well with the
existing g_spawn_*() API and its child_setup functionality.
However, in the future, I want to add a signal() wrapper here,
complete with proxying the signal to a mainloop. I have initial code
for this, but doing it sanely (including factoring out gmain.c's
private worker thread), is a complex task, and I don't want to block
on that.
See also gwin32.h for Win32 specific functionality.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644941
