It's mostly not used anymore and doesn't do what it says it does.
The docs state that it affects GList, GSList, GNode, GMemChunks, GSignal,
GType n_preallocs and GBSearchArray while:
* GList, GSList and GNode use GSlice and are not affected
* GMemChunks is gone
* GType npreallocs is ignored
It also states that it can be used to force the usage of g_malloc/g_free,
which is handled by G_SLICE=always-malloc now.
The only places where it's used is in signal handling through GBSearchArray
and in GValueArray (deprecated). Since it's unlikely that anyone wants to
reduce allocation sizes just for those cases remove the build option.
See commit 4c2928a544 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 4c2928a544 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.
ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY_DEFAULT was supposed to set the default for the gc friendliness
while still allowing to force enable it at runtime with G_DEBUG=gc-friendly.
With commit 943a18b564 (6 years ago) things were changed to always set it
according to the content of G_DEBUG in glib_init(), making the default unused.
Since nobody complained since then just remove the macro and the build option.
Add a test for monitoring an existing local file, with the
WATCH_HARD_LINKS flag specified. This would previously cause a crash;
now it doesn’t.
This test contains a FIXME where I suspect we should be getting some
additional file change notifications from changes made through the hard
link; this requires further follow up and probably further fixes to our
inotify backend.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755721
res_query() uses global state in the form of the struct __res_state
which contains the contents of resolv.conf (and other things). On Linux,
this state seems to be thread-local, so there is no problem. On OS X,
however, it is not, and hence multiple res_query() calls from parallel
threads will compete and return bogus results.
The fix for this is to use res_nquery(), introduced in BIND 8.2, which
takes an explicit state argument. This allows us to manually store the
state thread-locally. If res_nquery() isn’t available, we fall back to
res_query(). It should be available on OS X though. As a data point,
it’s available on Fedora 27.
There’s a slight complication in the fact that OS X requires the state
to be freed using res_ndestroy() rather than res_nclose(). Linux uses
res_nclose().
(See, for example, the NetBSD man page:
https://www.unix.com/man-page/netbsd/3/res_ninit/. The Linux one is
incomplete and not so useful:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/resolver.3.html.)
The new code will call res_ninit() once per res_nquery() task. This is
not optimal, but no worse than before — since res_query() was being
called in a worker thread, on Linux, it would implicitly initialise the
thread-local struct __res_state when it was called. We’ve essentially
just made that explicit. In practical terms, this means a
stat("/etc/resolv.conf") call per res_nquery() task.
In future, we could improve this by using an explicit thread pool with
some manually-created worker threads, each of which initialises a struct
__res_state on spawning, and only updates it on receiving
the #GResolver::reload signal.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792050
It adds support for source-specific multicast IGMPv3.
Allow receiving data only from a specified source when joining
a multicast group.
g_socket_join_multicast_group_ssm can be called multiple times
to allow receiving data from more than one source.
Support IPv4 and IPv6.
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740791
We want to set _WIN32_WINNT so that functions will be properly found in
the headers, to target the NT6.1+ (Windows 7+) APIs.
Also improve the checks for if_nametoindex() and if_indextoname() on
Windows as they are supported in Windows Vista+, but they have
to be checked by linking against iphlpapi.lib (or -liphlpapi). On other
platforms, they are still checked as they were before.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
Disable gio tests on Windows, fix .gitignore to not ignore
config.h.meson, and add more things to it.
Rename the library file naming and versioning to match what Autotools
outputs, e.g., libglib-2.0.so.0.5000.2 on Linux, libglib-2.0-0.dll and
glib-2.0-0.dll on Windows with MSVC.
Several more tiny fixes, more executables built and installed, install
pkg-config and m4 files, fix building of gobject tests.
Changes to gdbus-codegen to support out-of-tree builds without
environment variables set (which you can't in Meson). We now add the
build directory to the Python module search path.
