I didn't do this comprehensively, since there's a lot of it, mainly
due to the GDBus object manager stuff, but anyone trying to use
that would fail fast due to lack of the gdbus code generator.
My main goal was to get API additions to existing classes like
g_data_input_stream_read_line_utf8(), as well as the lower level new
API like glib-unix.h.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676816
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
_GNU_SOURCE must be defined before including any other (system)
header, so defining it in glib-unix.h (and hoping no one has included
anything else before that) is wrong. And the "#define _USE_GNU"
workaround for this problem in gnetworkingprivate.h is even wronger
(and still prone to failure anyway due to single-include guards).
Fix this by defining _GNU_SOURCE in config.h when building against
glibc. In theory this is bad because new releases of glibc may include
symbols that conflict with glib symbols, which could then cause
compile failures. However, most people only see new releases of glibc
when they upgrade their distro, at which point they also generally get
new releases of gcc, which have new warnings/errors to clean up
anyway.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649201
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
