GSettings objects begin watching for changes as soon as they are created
in order that they can emit the "changed" signal.
In the case of dconf, if we want to be able to emit the changed signal,
we need to go on the bus and add some match rules. This requires
creating the dconf helper thread and also requires initialising GDBus
(which creates another thread).
Some users of GSettings are never interested in the "changed" signal.
One of these users is the glib-networking code that gets run every time
a new network connection is created.
Some users are reporting that they are annoyed that simply establishing
a network connection would spawn two extra threads and create a D-Bus
connection.
In order to avoid doing unnecessary work for these simple uses, delay
the subscription until we know that we will actually need to do it.
We do this in a simple way, using a simple argument: in order for the
user to care that a value changed then they must have:
1) watched for a change signal; and then
2) actually read a value
If the user didn't actually read a value then they cannot possibly be
interested in if the value changed or not (since they never knew the old
value to begin with and therefore would be unable to observe that it
ever changed, since they have nothing to compare the new value with).
This really is a behaviour change, however, and it does impact at least
one user: the 'monitor' functionality of the GSettings commandline tool,
which is interested in reporting changes without ever having known the
original values. We add a workaround to the commandline tool in order
to ensure that it continues to function properly.
It's also possible to argue that it is completely valid to have read a
value and _then_ established a change signal connection under the
(correct) assumption that it would not have been possible to miss a
change signal by virtue of not having returned to the mainloop.
Although this argument is true, this pattern is extremely non-idiomatic,
and the problem is easily avoided by doing things in the usual order.
We never really talked about change notification in the overview
documentation for GSettings, so it seems like now is a good time to add
some discussion, including the new rules for when one can expect change
signals to be emitted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733791
This should already work according to the documentation, but doesn't
because main_options is consumed before the check in
g_application_parse_command_line().
Fix by moving the check for main_options up.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740157
The win32 headers do:
#define interface struct
which is just evil and breaks other code that assumes it can use
"interface" as a variable name. gnetworking.h was supposed to be doing
"#undef interface" after including the win headers, but it did it too
soon, resulting in it getting redefined by a later include. Fix this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738551
g_tls_certificate_new_from_file() was only loading the complete chain
if it was fully valid, but we only meant to be validating that it
formed an actual chain (since the caller may be planning to ignore
other errors).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729739
Fix a hang due to overflow by using unsigned numbers and explicitly
checking if the number overflows to zero. This also fixes the previous
logic which assigned an int which may be negative to an unsigned number
resulting in sign extension and strange results.
Use gsize rather than int to allow for large buffers on 64 bit machines.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727988
Fix a hang due to overflow by using unsigned numbers and explicitly
checking if the number overflows to zero. This also fixes the previous
logic which assigned an int which may be negative to an unsigned number
resulting in sign extension and strange results.
Use gsize rather than int to allow for large streams on 64 bit machines.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727988
There are two consistent interpretations that could be taken for memory
handling of the 'invocation' parameter passed to the method_call() virtual
function of GDBusInterfaceVTable
- A reference is passed (transfer full) to the method_call() virtual function,
and that reference is then passed (transfer full) to the return_value/error
functions on GDBusMethodInvocation.
- An internal reference is retained from the point where method_call() is called
until the return_value/error function is called.
Since the return_value/error functions were already marked (transfer full),
we use the first interpretation, annotate the invocation parameter of
method call as (transfer full) and describe this in the documentation, along
with the idea that you are always supposed to call one of the return_value/error
functions.
See bug 738122 for the leak this caused in GJS.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738259
Clarify in the documentation that a GSource created with
g_cancellable_source_new() must be explicitly removed from its
GMainContext before the GCancellable can be finalised.
This could be a common way of leaking GCancellables.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737259
da053e34 broke the tls-certificates test by requiring the backend to
implement g_tls_certificate_verify() (which the test TLS backend
didn't). Add a trivial implementation to make the test pass again;
we'll need something more complicated when we add tests that are
supposed to get errors.
So shortcut it.
I wrote this patch less as a performance optimization and more as a
clarification, so that people looking at the code can be assured of this
invariant.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738374
These functions are inconsistent with our normal conventions in that
they set an output variable to a specified value, even in the case that
an error is thrown.
Document very clearly that this should be considered exceptional.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737451
Similar to the previous patch, this commit contains a minor violation of
normal API conventions. See the explanation in the previous commit
message.
Heavily based on a patch from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737451
Add an asynchronous version of _read_all().
This API is not fully consistent with the normal expectations of a
non-asynchronous version. Consistency between the sync and async version is
probably more important.
The API will still bind correctly, but access to all functionality will
not be available: specifically, in the case of an error, higher level
languages will be unable to determine how many bytes were successfully
read before the error. Most users will probably not want to use this
information anyway, so this is OK -- and if they do need the
information, then they can just write the loop for themselves.
Heavily based on a patch from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737451
Commit e24e89b accidentally ironically introduced a typo when replacing
the code with symbolic contents. Specifically, "Added Associations" was
replaced with "Default Applications" when reading defaults.list, giving
a warning about the file containing a "Default Applications" group.
If this was intended, it should have not been lumped in with a cleanup.
This patch changes the behavior of the following functions:
g_tls_certificate_new_from_pem
g_tls_certificate_new_from_file
g_tls_certificate_new_from_files
If more than one certificate is found it will try to load the chain.
It is assumed that the chain will be in the right order (top-level
certificate will be the last one in the file). If the chain cannot be
verified, the first certificate in the file will be returned as before.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729739
g_thread_pool_push() only returns an error if it fails to spawn a new
thread. However, it unconditionally adds the task to its worker queue,
so:
• if _any_ threads exist in the pool, the task will eventually be
handled; and
• if _no_ threads exist in the pool, the task will be handled if one
is eventually successfully spawned.
If no more threads are ever spawned, the process probably has bigger
problems than a single GTask which is taking forever to complete.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736806
For the GPtrArray example, several variables declared on the same line
is harder to read and to work with (to move, remove or comment a single
variable declaration).
Some desktop file directories, like /usr/local/share/applications may be
missing on some systems.
When we try to inotify on these directories, this will result in a
every-4-seconds poll being setup which is quite bad.
This is an issue that should be fixed in inotify itself but the problem
is much larger there. For now, we can work around it in GDesktopAppInfo
by refusing to monitor missing directories.
We may get some spurious notifications of changes in the case that
/usr/local/share or /usr/local/share/applications is created without
actually adding desktop files, but spurious changes can already be
reported in other cases, so that's OK. We won't get (user-visible)
notification for a simple case of a completely unrelated file being
created (however we cannot avoid the wakeup in this case due to how
inotify works). That's probably pretty theoretical, though, since files
in /usr don't change much and for the home directory we're likely to
have at least ~/.config and ~/.local existing.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736350
We use "tweaks" structures to track how a particular directory impacts
the list of added, removed and default applications. We maintain this
set of tweaks for each directory, in a hash table, keyed by unaliased
mime type name, in order to facilitate fast lookups.
A typo in the logic for creating and maintaining the uniqueness of these
structures was causing the default app to be selected incorrectly from
time to time. Fix that.
If a g_socket_client_connect_async() operation is cancelled between the
CONNECTING and CONNECTED events (i.e. while in the
g_socket_connection_connect_async() call), the code in
g_socket_client_connected_callback() would previously unconditionally
loop round and try the next socket address from the address enumerator
(by calling enumerator_next_async()). This would correctly handle the
cancellation and return from the overall task — but not before emitting
a spurious RESOLVING event.
Avoid emitting the spurious RESOLVING event by explicitly handling
cancellation at the beginning of g_socket_client_connected_callback().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735179
This function adds a single main option entry to be handeled by
GApplication. The option entry has it arg_data field set to NULL
and will be added to the applications packed_options.
The rationale for this is that bindings will be able to add
command line options even when they can't use the un-boxed struct
GOptionEntry.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727455
