These prevent GVariants from accidentally being brought back to life after
being freed, and should make it easier to track down ref. counting issues.
Closes: bgo#665184
* 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
Also include a shorter version in the docs for g_variant_store, with a
pointer to g_variant_get_data.
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632049
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
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
Ensure callers get a warning if they pass a bad length.
Split into a separate commit and changed to order index before
n_children by Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Bug #640807 makes a reasonable case for why it's better to have your
program crash outright in the case of memory errors. With this
modification, GVariant is far more likely to do that in the case that a
GVariant pointer is used shortly after being freed.
Avoid acquiring the lock on the instance on the case of deserialising a
child. We know that it is safe to do this unlocked because a serialised
child will never become unserialised.
Closes#626320
