The gutils-user-database.c is broken in two ways and currently doesn't test anything:
* It only overrides getpwuid, where the implementation used getpwnam_r if it exist, which should be every system for at least 20 years.
* It only partly cargo-culted setting the environment for the local and installed tests, but failed to actually set the environment for either.
Before commit 71b7efd08a, `GKeyFile`
incorrectly allowed invalid escape sequences: it would treat the
sequence as a literal, set a `GError`, but not return failure from the
function. So if a caller was explicitly checking for returned `GError`s,
they could detect the invalid escape; but if they were just checking the
function’s return value, they’d miss it.
This is not correct use of `GError`, and the [Desktop Entry
Spec](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s04.html)
doesn’t allow for invalid escape sequences to be accepted. So it’s wrong
in both ways.
However, the commit above changed this behaviour without realising it,
quite close to the 2.78 stable release deadline. There are numerous key
files in the wild which use invalid escape sequences, and it’s too late
in the cycle to ‘break’ parsing of all of them.
So, for now, revert to the old behaviour for invalid escape sequences,
and give people another cycle to adapt to the changes. This will likely
mean they end up calling `g_key_file_get_value()` rather than
`g_key_file_get_string()`. See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3098 for tracking
re-enabling the error handling for invalid escape sequences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Fixes: #3095
See: #3098
pthread_exit() is also marked noreturn, and the function does not in
fact return.
For win32, I can't find a copy of the header file to check if
_endthreadex() is marked with __declspec(noreturn), but its
documentation does say that it never returns.
When parsing a line of "key3=foo\i\" in a keyfile,
g_key_file_parse_value_as_string currently first sets the error to
'contains invalid escape' and later to 'contains escape character at end
of line'.
This leaks the first GError and causes the following warning message:
Error set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is
NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Key file
contains escape character at end of line
Fix this by returning when an error is detected. As we may have
collected data in pieces, we instead collect to a tmp_pieces GSList and
free it on error.
The fields are fully validated in `validate_headers()` in
`gdbusmessage.c` now, so the connection code should be able to rely on
the required ones being non-`NULL`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Helps: #3061
`object_path` and `path` were doing exactly the same thing here.
This introduces no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
We already validated that the required headers for each type of D-Bus
message were present. However, we didn’t validate that they contained a
variant of the right type. This could lead to functions like
`g_dbus_message_get_path()` returning `NULL` unexpectedly.
This failure could only be hit when using GDBus in peer-to-peer mode, or
with a D-Bus server which didn’t validate the headers itself. The
reference D-Bus server does validate the headers, and doesn’t forward
invalid messages to clients.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Fixes: #3061
This patch is based upon Garrett Regier's work from 2015 to provide
some reliability and predictability to how disposal handles weak
reference state.
A primary problem is that GWeakRef and GWeakNotify state is shared and
therefore you cannot rely on GWeakRef status due to a GWeakNotify
calling into second-degree code.
It's important to ensure that both weak pointer locations and GWeakRef
will do the proper thing before user callbacks are executed during
disposal. Otherwise, user callbacks cannot rely on the status of their
weak pointers. That would be mostly okay but becomes an issue when
second degree objects are then disposed before any notification of
dependent object disposal.
Consider objects A and B.
`A` contains a reference to `B` and `B` contains a `GWeakRef` to `A`.
When `A` is disposed, `B` may be disposed as a consequence but has not
yet been notified that `A` has been disposed. It's `GWeakRef` may also
cause liveness issues if `GWeakNotify` on `A` result in tertiary code
running which wants to interact with `B`.
This example is analagous to how `GtkTextView` and `GtkTextBuffer` work
in text editing applications.
To provide application and libraries the ability to handle this using
already existing API, `GWeakRef` is separated into it's own GData quark
so that weak locations and `GWeakRef` are cleared before user code is
executed as a consequence of `GData` cleanup.
# Conflicts:
# gobject/tests/signals.c
