This is basically glnx_steal_fd() from libglnx. We already had two
private implementations of it in GLib.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This is a simple wrapper around the new source/target FD mapping
functionality in `fork_exec()`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2097
This adds g_string_replace(), a function that replaces instances of one string
with another in a GString. It allows the caller to specify the maximum number
of replacements to perform, and returns the number of replacements performed
to the caller.
Fixes: #225
This will replace the existing `g_memdup()` function, which has an
unavoidable security flaw of taking its `byte_size` argument as a
`guint` rather than as a `gsize`. Most callers will expect it to be a
`gsize`, and may pass in large values which could silently be truncated,
resulting in an undersize allocation compared to what the caller
expects.
This could lead to a classic buffer overflow vulnerability for many
callers of `g_memdup()`.
`g_memdup2()`, in comparison, takes its `byte_size` as a `gsize`.
Spotted by Kevin Backhouse of GHSL.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: GHSL-2021-045
Helps: #2319
That changes the return type of functions like g_object_ref() that can
break C++ applications like Webkit. Note that it is not an ABI break.
It must thus be opt-in the same way we did when adding this to
g_object_ref() for GNU C compilers in the first place. Unfortunately it
cannot be done directly in gmacros.h because GLIB_VERSION_2_68 is not
defined there, and gversionmacros.h cannot be included there because
there is some strict ordering in which those headers must be included.
This means that applications that does not define
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED will still get an API break, so we encourage
them to declare their minimum requirement to avoir such issues in the
future too.
I found myself wanting to know the test that is currently being run,
where e.g. __func__ would be inconvenient to use, because e.g. the place
the string was needed was not in the test case function. Using __func__
also relies on the test function itself containing the whole path, while
loosing the "/" information that is part of the test path.
These two APIs are useful to publish an object which path content is not
controlled (e.g. dynamically built or coming from external source).
Closes#968
(Rebased and tweaked by Frederic Martinsons)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
Even if the modules in the given directory never get chosen to be used,
loading arbitrary code from a user-provided directory is not safe when
running as setuid, as the process’ environment comes from an untrusted
source.
Also ignore `GIO_EXTRA_MODULES`.
Spotted by Simon McVittie.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2168
Just embed a PNG instead. gdk-pixbuf deprecated its pixdata support in
version 2.32, in 2015.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #1281
This command will try to execute a desktop file, before that
it will load the input as a keyfile for checking its existence
and its validity (as a keyfile).
File arguments are allowed after the desktop file.
Closes#54
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
It search for attribute trash::orig-path and move the input file to it.
Possibly recreating the directory of orignal path and/or overwritting
the destination.
Closes#2098
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
http://isvolatileusefulwiththreads.in/c/
It’s possible that the variables here are only marked as volatile
because they’re arguments to `g_once_*()`. Those arguments will be
modified in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #600
Add a new variant of `g_time_zone_new()` which returns `NULL` on
failure to load a timezone, rather than silently returning UTC.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #553
This commit is the unmodified results of running
```
black $(git ls-files '*.py')
```
with black version 19.10b0. See #2046.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This function returns the most specific instantiatable type
that is a prerequisite for a given interface.
This type is necessary in particular when dealing with GValues
because a GValue contains an instance of a type.
This commit includes tests for the new API.
Rather than using a mixture of ‘instantiable’ and ‘instantiatable’
everywhere, standardise on the term which is already in the public API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
For legacy reasons, Meson's gtk-doc helper script launches the
gtkdoc-mkhtml tool in the `html` directory under the build root. This
means that all paths must be relative to that location.
g_has_typeof macro is wrongly in the public g_ namespace, internaly
symbols are usually in the glib_ namespace. This will also allow to
define glib_typeof differently on non-GNUC compilers (e.g. c++11
decltype).
GLib uses NULL-terminated string arrays (GStrv) in a number of places, however
these are quite hard to construct in C when the number of elements is not known
in advance. GStrvBuilder wraps GPtrArray to make these easy to create with
type safety and does the memory management for you.
By default, when using g_subprocess_launcher_take_fd() to pass an
FD to a child, the GSubprocessLauncher object also takes ownership
of the FD in the parent, and closes it during finalize(). This is
a reasonable assumption in the majority of the cases, but sometimes
it isn't a good idea.
An example is when creating a GSubprocessLauncher in JavaScript:
here, the destruction process is managed by the Garbage Collector,
which means that those sockets will remain opened for some time
after all the references to the object has been droped. This means
that it could be not possible to detect when the child has closed
that same FD, because in order to make that work, both FDs
instances (the one in the parent and the one in the children) must
be closed. This can be a problem in, as an example, a process that
launches a child that communicates with Wayland using an specific
socket (like when using the new API MetaWaylandClient).
Of course, it isn't a valid solution to manually call close() in
the parent process just after the call to spawn(), because the FD
number could be reused in the time between it is manually closed,
and when the object is destroyed and closes again that FD. If that
happens, it will close an incorrect FD.
One solution could be to call run_dispose() from Javascript on the
GSubprocessLauncher object, to force freeing the resources.
Unfortunately, the current code frees them in the finalize()
method, not in dispose() (this is fixed in !1670 (merged) ) but it
isn't a very elegant solution.
This proposal adds a new method, g_subprocess_launcher_close(),
that allows to close the FDs passed to the child. To avoid problems,
after closing an FD with this method, no more spawns are allowed.
Fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1677
This allows programs that want to change how log messages are printed,
such as gnome-terminal (gnome-terminal#42) and Flatpak, to override
the log-writer or the legacy log-handler without having to reimplement
the G_MESSAGES_DEBUG filtering logic.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
GLib code normally prints info and debug messages to stdout,
but that interferes with programs that are documented to produce
machine-readable output such as JSON or XML on stdout. In particular,
if such a program uses a GLib-based library, setting G_MESSAGES_DEBUG
will typically result in that library's debug messages going to the
program's stdout and corrupting the machine-readable output.
Unix programs can avoid this by using dup2() to move the original stdout
to another fd, then dup2() again to make the new stdout a copy of stderr,
but it's easier if we provide a way to not write debug messages to
stdout in the first place. Calling
g_log_writer_default_set_use_stderr (TRUE) results in behaviour
resembling Python's logging.basicConfig(), with all diagnostics going
to stderr.
Suggested by Allison Karlitskaya on glib#2087.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
