See commit 4c2928a544829 for why checking AT_SECURE is preferable compared
to UID checks as currently done in the fallback case.
getauxval() was added with glibc 2.16
While glibc <2.19 didn't provide a way to differentiate a 0 return value from an error,
passing AT_SECURE should always succeed according to
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-07/msg00407.html
I've added an errno check anyway, to be on the safe side.
It was added in 4c2928a544829 to potentially enable accessing
AT_SECURE through __libc_enable_secure, but was never enabled.
Newer glibc provides getauxval(AT_SECURE) which should be used instead.
Add a TODO note for that.
If g_get_home_dir() calculated a NULL home directory (due to $HOME being
unset and /etc/passwd being inaccessible, for example due to an
overly-zealous LSM), it would call g_once_init_leave (&home_dir, NULL),
which would emit a critical and fail to leave the GOnce critical
section. That meant that the following call to g_get_home_dir() would
deadlock in g_once_init_enter().
Fix that by setting the home directory to a made-up value in such cases
(which the documentation handily already explicitly allows).
Thanks to Simon McVittie for the analysis leading to an easy patch.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773435
Ensures that the hostname returned by g_get_host_name is always UTF8 encoded.
Previously, on Windows, the returned string would be encoded in the
current codepage, if it contained non-ASCII characters.
The unit test for g_get_host_name was updated with a check to ensure
that the hostname is indeed at UTF-8 string.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789755
This reverts commit 51f9c95cf240b7de4c1db8e4dcb7e18d72ba0d3c.
It’s changed the set of translatable strings generated in the POT file.
Reverting until a fix can be found for that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789170
Try to get XDG_* environment variables and, if they are available, use their
contents to initialize various directories the same way this happens on *nix.
When these variables are not available, fall back to the W32-specific APIs for
getting directories.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766358
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
All glib/*.{c,h} files have been processed, as well as gtester-report.
12 of those files are not licensed under LGPL:
gbsearcharray.h
gconstructor.h
glibintl.h
gmirroringtable.h
gscripttable.h
gtranslit-data.h
gunibreak.h
gunichartables.h
gunicomp.h
gunidecomp.h
valgrind.h
win_iconv.c
Some of them are generated files, some are licensed under a BSD-style
license and win_iconv.c is in the public domain.
Sub-directories inside glib/:
deprecated/: processed in a previous commit
glib-mirroring-tab/: already LGPLv2.1+
gnulib/: not modified, the code is copied from gnulib
libcharset/: a copy
pcre/: a copy
tests/: processed in a previous commit
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776504
Adds the filename annotation for all file names
and things which can contain file names like
environment variables, argv-
On Unix they can contain anything while on Windows
they are always utf-8.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767245
The new g_abort() macro just expands to abort() on systems where abort()
behaves in a sane way. On other systems (read: Windows) it does its best
to emulate a sane abort() behaviour.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665446
If the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable is set, we are being told by
the OS that this directory exists and is appropriately configured
already. In the fallback case of ~/.cache/, however, the directory may
not yet exist.
Rework the logic of this function a little so that we only check for the
environment variable once. If it is not set, we will fall back to the
cache directory, and mkdir() it to make sure that it exists.
Meanwhile, remove a statement from the reference documentation that
promises a warning in this case (which has never been true) and replace
it with a statement that applications can rely on the directory
existing.
This change prevents each user of this API from having to check for the
directory for themselves; an example of that can be seen in bug 763274.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763344
Bug 13403 introduced support for the non-POSIX variants of these APIs
found on a system called "DG/UX". Meanwhile, the complicated checks
here are breaking cross-builds on systems that we actually care about.
Remove the complicated checks and replace them with AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
Remove the resulting dead code from a couple of .c files.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756475
gutils.h and gutils.c define three utility functions as inlines that are
also exported via the ABI. This is done via complicated G_INLINE_FUNC
and G_IMPLEMENT_INLINES logic.
In order to be able to remove this mess, we create a another convoluted
but slightly cleaner approach: write straight-up inline versions of the
functions named _impl() in the header. Define macros with the "public"
function names that call these inlines. From the .c file, export the
ABI versions of these functions, implemented using the _impl() version.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757374
Add various (nullable) and (optional) annotations which were missing
from a variety of functions. Also port a couple of existing (allow-none)
annotations in the same files to use (nullable) and (optional) as
appropriate instead.
Secondly, add various (not nullable) annotations as needed by the new
default in gobject-introspection of marking gpointers as (nullable). See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729660.
This includes adding some stub documentation comments for the
assertion macro error functions, which weren’t previously documented.
The new comments are purely to allow for annotations, and hence are
marked as (skip) to prevent the symbols appearing in the GIR file.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719966
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
