This looks like it was stubbed out but not implemented; the vtable
entry dates to commit 3781343738 which
is just alex's initial merge of gio into glib.
I was working on some code that wants an asynchronous rm -rf
equivalent, and so yeah, this is desirable.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680760
Many (if not "almost all") programs that spawn other programs via
g_spawn_sync() or the like simply want to check whether or not the
child exited successfully, but doing so requires use of
platform-specific functionality and there's actually a fair amount of
boilerplate involved.
This new API will help drain a *lot* of mostly duplicated code in
GNOME, from gnome-session to gdm. And we can see that some bits even
inside GLib were doing it wrong; for example checking the exit status
on Unix, but ignoring it on Windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679691
Rather than doing a two step first-check-the-GAsyncResult-subtype-then-
check-the-tag, add a GAsyncResult-level method so that you can do them
both at once, simplifying the code for "short-circuit" async return
values where the vmethod never gets called.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661767
Finish deprecating the "handle GSimpleAsyncResult errors in the
wrapper function" idiom (and protect against future GSimpleAsyncResult
deprecation warnings) by adding a "legacy" GAsyncResult method
to do it in those classes/methods where it had been traditionally
done.
(This applies only to wrapper methods; in cases where an _async
vmethod explicitly uses GSimpleAsyncResult, its corresponding _finish
vmethod still uses g_simple_async_result_propagate_error.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667375https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661767
* Document how to override interfaces already implemented
in a base class, and also call those base class implementations
from a derived reimplementation.
* Don't recomend people use base_init() style functions to
initialize interface signals and properties, use default_init()
aka class_init() instead (as G_DEFINE_INTERFACE() uses).
* The above solves the interface init called multiple times
problem, so remove some needless naysaying about that.
* Document default_init() in the interface initialization discussion
* Linkify more stuff.
* Remove some crud and typos
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675504
The docs for GString should really mention GByteArray, and what makes
it different. Drop the comparison to Java which is dated and actually
inaccurate (because StringBuffer operates on Unicode).
While we're here, add g_string_free_to_bytes(), which further
complements the spread of GBytes-based API. For example, one can
create a buffer using GString, then send it off via
g_output_stream_write_bytes().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677064
They make a full (deep) copy of a list.
In contrast with g_[s]list_copy(), these functions take a function as a argument
to make a copy of each list element, in addition to copying the list container itself.
The functions g_[s]list_copy() were reimplemented to just call the new functions
with NULL as the function argument, which will behave like current implementation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675024
Using a caller-supplied buffer for g_input_stream_read() doesn't
translate well to the semantics of many other languages, and using a
non-refcounted buffer for read_async() and write_async() makes it
impossible to manage the memory correctly currently in
garbage-collected languages.
Fix both of these issues by adding a new set of methods that work with
GBytes objects rather than plain buffers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671139
This essentially adds an accessor for the MimeType field in desktop files,
to retrieve the list of all mime types supported by an application.
The interface though is part of GAppInfo, so it could be implemented
in the future by other backends.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674111
Provide public access to the GDBusConnect and object path that
GApplication is using. Prevents others from having to guess these
things for themselves based on the application ID.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671249
Add two new methods to GProxyAddress for recovering information about
the destination URI that the proxy was created for (and modify
GProxyAddressEnumerator to set that information when creating the
GProxyAddress).
Move g_pollable_source_new() here from gpollableinputstream.c, add
g_pollable_source_new_full(), and add some new methods to do either
blocking or nonblocking reads depending on a boolean argument.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673997
* Add resolver functions for looking up DNS records of
various types. Currently implemented: MX, TXT, SOA, SRV, NS
* Return records as GVariant tuples.
* Make the GSrvTarget lookups a wrapper over this new
functionality.
* Rework the resolver test so that it has support for
looking up MX, NS, SOA, TXT records, and uses GOptionContext
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672944
GSettings overrides are processed in such a way that
alphabetically-later files have precedence over earlier files (eg: 20_
will beat 10_). Document that fact.
Add a function g_simple_async_result_set_check_cancellable() to provide
a GCancellable that is checked for being cancelled during the call to
g_simple_async_result_propagate_error().
This gives asynchronous operation implementations an easy way to
provide reliable cancellation of those operations -- even in the case
that a positive result has occured and is pending dispatch at the time
the operation is cancelled.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672013
If an application (such as Nautilus) wants to show a sidebar with
devices group into different groups such as "Devices" and "Network",
it's currently up to the application itself to do the classification
(for example by looking at the URI scheme for the activation root,
e.g. smb://).
This patch adds a new identifier G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_CLASS that
can be set by volume monitors and used by applications.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668295
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
The way gtk-doc works, we need compiling.sgml in both
content_files (to make sure it ends up in the disted tarball)
and in expand_content_files (to have references expanded).
There are cases when it should be possible to define at compile time
what range of functions and types should be used, in order to get,
or restrict, the compiler warnings for deprecated or newly added
types or functions.
For instance, if GLib introduces a deprecation warning on a type in
version 2.32, application code can decide to specify the minimum and
maximum boundary of the used API to be 2.30; when compiling against
a new version of GLib, this would produce the following results:
- all deprecations introduced prior to 2.32 would emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all deprecations introduced in 2.32 would not emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all new symbols introduced in 2.32 would emit a compiler warning.
Using this scheme it should be possible to have fairly complex
situations, like the following one:
assuming that an application is compiled with:
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED = GLIB_VERSION_2_30
GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED = GLIB_VERSION_2_32
and a GLib header containing:
void function_A (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_26;
void function_B (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_28;
void function_C (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_30;
void function_D (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_32;
void function_E (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_34;
any application code using the above functions will get the following
compiler warnings:
function_A: deprecated symbol warning
function_B: deprecated symbol warning
function_C: no warning
function_D: no warning
function_E: undefined symbol warning
This means that it should be possible to gradually port code towards
non-deprecated API gradually, on a per-release basis.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670542
Add new macros to disable -Wdeprecated-declarations around a piece of
code, using the C99 (and GNU89) _Pragma() operator. Replace the
existing use of #pragma for this in gio, and suppress the warnings in
gvaluearray.c as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669671
This is needed for thread-safety ... yes, it would have been better to
make get_object() return a full reference and have something like a
peek_object() method return a borrowed reference for C convenience
(only a single vfunc would have been needed). But such an ABI break is
too late now...
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
It's hardly useful to bloat the resource data with blanks intended only
for human readability, so add a preprocessing option that uses xmllint --noblanks
to strip these.
Bug #667929.
Like GPtrArray has a "free function" that can be used to free memory
associated to each pointer in the array, GArray would benefit from
having a "clear function" that can be used to clear the content of
each element of the array when it's removed, or when the entire array
is freed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667243
g_settings_create_action() will create a GAction for the named key,
allowing it to be added to the action group of the application (so that
the setting can be directly manipulated from menus, for example).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668279
struct sin6_addr has two additional fields that struct sin_addr
doesn't. Add support for those to GInetSocketAddress, and make sure
they don't get lost when converting between glib and native types.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635554
This is implemented by with statfs_buffer.f_bavail (free blocks
for unprivileged users) as a default way to retrieve real free space.
Based on a patch by Marcus Carlson, bug 625751.
This can be used for debugging, or for progress UIs ("Connecting to
example.com..."), or to do low-level tweaking on the connection at
various points in the process.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665805
Previously it was more or less assumed that GSocketConnections were
always connected, although this was not enforced. Make it explicit
that they don't need to be, and add methods to connect them, and
simplify GSocketClient by using those methods.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665805
This interfaceifies the extra functions that were on GDBusActionGroup
for dealing with platform data.
The two main benefits of doing this:
- no longer have to do a silly song and dance in GApplication to avoid
calling GDBusActionGroup API from non-dbus-aware code
- the interface can be reused by the action group exporter to avoid
ugly and unbindable hook callbacks
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665737
Clean up the docs for GApplication and related classes.
I'm no longer writing documentation for the structure type of classes
and interfaces. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665926
for discussin on the correct way forward on this point.
Also: stop putting gtk-doc comments in installed headers.
Have one simple _get() API that returns the group immediately, in an
empty state. The group is initialised on the first attempt to interact
with it.
Leave a secret 'back door' for GApplication to do a blocking
initialisation.
Rename g_application_set_menu to g_application_set_app_menu and make a
couple of fixups. Clarify the documentation about exactly what this
menu is meant to be.
Add g_application_set_menubar and document that as well.
There are no public 'exporter' objects, so don't allude to them
in the function names. At the same time, we want to make it clear
that these functions are D-Bus specific.
The new APIs are
g_action_group_dbus_export_start
g_action_group_dbus_export_query
g_action_group_dbus_export_stop
g_menu_model_dbus_export_start
g_menu_model_dbus_export_query
g_menu_model_dbus_export_stop
Raised by Matthias in bgo#665685 but which I didn't spot until after pushing
commit 3ac7c35656.
Renames G_UNICHAR_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN to G_UNICHAR_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LENGTH
and fixes a few documentation issues.
See: bgo#665685
This is useful in peer-to-peer connections.
With minor changes by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662718
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Either g_type_register_static_simple (used by G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED)
and G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE use automatic variables for GTypeInfo and
GInterfaceInfo structs, while tutorials and source code often use
static variables. This commit consistently adopts the former method.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600161
This new API allows requesting multiple pieces of information about a
particular action in one go and also simplifies the burden for
GActionGroup implementations -- they need not implement all the separate
APIs now.
* 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
Add GNetworkMonitor and its associated extension point, provide a base
implementation that always claims the network is available, and a
netlink-based implementation built on top of that that actually tracks
the network state.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620932
Instead of:
warning: ‘g_variant_get_gtype’ is deprecated (declared at ../../gobject/glib-types.h:242): Use '((GType) ((21) << (2)))' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
show:
warning: ‘g_variant_get_gtype’ is deprecated (declared at ../../gobject/glib-types.h:242): Use ''G_VARIANT_GET_TYPE'' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
Also, document the macro-expansion problem in the
G_GNUC_DEPRECATED_FOR docs
Allow passing --identifier-prefix and --symbol-prefix to glib-mkenums,
with the same meanings as in g-ir-scanner, to allow fixing up the enum
name parsing globally rather than needing to add a /<* *>/ override to
each enum.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661797
The documentation for maybe types failed to mention 'a' as one of the
types that was handled with a single pointer for which NULL means
"nothing". Correct that omission.
Problem caught by Shaun McCance.
We clean up the detection of if we should do 'real' atomic operations or
mutex-emulated ones with the introduction of a new (public) macro:
G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE. If defined, our atomic operations are guaranteed to
be done in hardware.
We need to use __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 to determine if our
compiler supports GCC-style atomic operations from the gatomic.h header
because we might be building a program against GLib using a different
set of compiler options (or a different compiler) than was used to build
GLib itself.
Unfortunately, this macro is not available on clang, so it has currently
regressed to using the mutex emulation. A bug about that has been
opened here:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11174
Adds g_key_file_ref and g_key_file_unref, to be used by a future
GKeyFile boxed type for language bindings.
Based on the patch by Christian Persch and Emmanuele Bassi.
Author: Christian Persch
Signed-off-by: Johan Dahlin
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Campagna
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590808
Add functions for manipulating the environment under which a
GAppLaunchContext will launch its children, to avoid thread-related
bugs with using setenv() directly.
FIXME: win32 side isn't implemented yet
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659326
When spawning a child process, it is not safe to call setenv() before
the fork() (because setenv() isn't thread-safe), but it's also not
safe to call it after the fork() (because it's not async-signal-safe).
So the only safe way to alter the environment for a child process from
a threaded program is to pass a fully-formed envp array to
exec*/g_spawn*/etc.
So, add g_environ_getenv(), g_environ_setenv(), and
g_environ_unsetenv(), which act like their namesakes, but work on
arbitrary arrays rather than working directly on the environment.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659326
Some code using GLib (gnome-keyring-daemon, for example) assumes that
they can catch signals by masking them out in the main thread and
calling sigwait() from a worker.
The problem is that our new worker thread catches the signals before
sigwait() has a chance and the default action occurs (typically
resulting in program termination).
If we mask all the signals in our worker, then this can't happen.
With search gaining traction as being the preferred way to locate
applications, the existing .desktop file fields meant for browsing
often produce insufficient results.
gnome-control-center introduced a custom X-GNOME-Keywords field for
that purpose, which we plan to support in gnome-shell as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661763
Switch GCond to using monotonic time for timed waits by introducing a
new API based on monotonic time in a gint64: g_cond_wait_until().
Deprecate the old API based on wallclock time in a GTimeVal.
Fix up the gtk-doc for GCond while we're at it: update the examples to
use static-allocated GCond and GMutex and clarify some things a bit.
Also explain the rationale behind using an absolute time instead of a
relative time.
Unlike G_GNUC_... macros, the new G_DEPRECATED[_FOR] are
meant as abstractions that work with different compilers.
Using a new name also lets us restrict it to 'must be placed
before the declaration', which works with more compilers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661438
Add g_main_context_ref_thread_default(), which always returns a
reffed GMainContext, rather than sometimes returning a (non-reffed)
GMainContext, and sometimes returning NULL. This simplifies the
bookkeeping in any code that needs to keep a reference to the
thread-default context for a while.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660994
Make the options from an /etc/fstab entry available as public API -
this can be used to support options such as
comment=gvfs.name=Foo\040Bar
to e.g. set the name of an fstab mount in the UI to "Foo Bar".
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660536
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
All locks are now zero-initialised, so we can drop the G_*_INIT macros
for them.
Adjust various users around GLib accordingly and change the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659866
Take out the half-private g_private_init() stuff and replace it with a
G_PRIVATE_INIT macro that allows specifying a GDestroyNotify.
Expose the GPrivate structure in a public header.
Add a g_private_replace() to (sort of) match the functionality of
g_static_mutex_set().
Improve the documentation.
Deprecate g_private_new().
Replace it with g_thread_create_with_stack_size() and a real function
implementation of g_thread_create().
Modify a testcase that was calling g_thread_create_full()
inappropriately (it was using the default values anyway).
Create a deprecated/ directory that we can start moving ancient chunks
of code to. Start with GAllocator, GMemChunk and related APIs.
Also drop all mention of them from the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659427
Previously, we were returning an empty buffer for all filenames
where fstat() gives a size of 0. But this is only appropriate
for regular files.
Also improve the documentation around this issue. Based on a
patch by Ryan Lortie.
Conflicts:
glib/tests/mappedfile.c
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659212
The boolean values to be returned by a GSourceFunc are always ambiguous,
and even in case of experienced developers then can lead to confusion.
The Perl bindings for GLib have two simple constants, mapping to TRUE
and FALSE, that make the return values less confusing: G_SOURCE_CONTINUE
and G_SOURCE_REMOVE respectively.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631413
Only objects and interfaces should go in here. If enums are in here
then gtk-doc responds by outputting two anchors for the same name (which
results in many warnings being printed).
Some links were broken due to typos, because functionality was removed
in GLib 2.0 or for various other reasons. Fix up as many of them as is
reasonable.
Commit ab0e9dbfa7 introduced some changes
to the documentation Makefiles designed to clean-up the process of
deciding which headers get scanned for the docs.
Unfortunately, the gtk-doc Makefile doesn't use HFILE_GLOB for actually
generating the docs -- only for knowing when it needs to redo the
generation. Because of this, we need to use IGNORE_HFILES or otherwise
we get hundreds of symbols in the *-unused.txt files.
Revert the changes that that commit made to the docs Makefiles (but
leave the generation of the *-public-headers.txt files in place).
Change the unix signal watch API to match other sources in both
available functions, names of those functions and order of the
parameters to the _full function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657705
Several different codebases in GNOME want to implement wall clocks.
While we could pretty easily share a private library, it's not a
substantial amount of code, and GLib already has a lot of the
necessary system-specific detection and handling infrastructure.
Note this initial implementation just wakes up once a second in the
cancel_on_set case; we'll add the Linux-specific handling in a
subsequent commit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
* Load modules from paths listed in GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment
variable first.
* Ignore duplicate modules based on module basename.
* Add the concept of GIOModuleScope which allows other callers to
skip duplicate loaded modules, or block specific modules based on
basename.
* Document behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656914
Rework property getters to use a vfunc so we can take the fast path
and avoid allocating memory for both the skeleton and the proxy
cases. This requires some special case because of how GVariant expects
you to free memory in some cases, see #657100. Add test cases for
this.
Document the _get_ functions as not being thread-safe and also
generate _dup_ C getters (which are thread-safe).
Mark all the generated _get_, _dup_ and _set_ as (skip) as non-C
languages should just use GObject properties and not the (socalled)
"C binding".
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
The main rationale for adding it was to avoid having gnome-shell
mmap'ing /etc/localtime once a second. However, we can just as easily
run inotify there, and given no one else was clamoring for a way to
detect when the time zone changes, I don't see a need for public API
here - at least not yet.
In the bigger picture, I just don't believe that the vast majority of
applications are going to go out of their way to instantiate and keep
around a random GTimeZoneMonitor class. And if they do, it's has the
side effect that for other bits of code in the process, local GDateTime
instances may start varying again!
So, if code can't rely on local GDateTime instances being in a
consistent state anyways, let's just do that always. The
documentation now says that this is the case. Applications have
always been able to work in a consistent local time zone by
instantiating a zone and then using it for GDateTime constructors.
We fix the "gnome-shell stats /etc/localtime once a second" issue by
using timerfd (in glib) and inotify (in gnome-shell).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655129
At the same time, also add g_mkdtemp_full and g_dir_make_tmp
variants. The patch also unifies the unique-name-generating
code for all variants of mkstemp and mkdtemp and adds tests
for the new functions.
Based on patches by Paolo Bonzini,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118563
This implements g_hmac_xxx() functionality using the standard checksum
functions supported by glib.
HMAC is a secure way to hash a key and a password. Many other
approaches fraught with append and prepend issues.
Includes test cases defined in relevant RFCs
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652480
The implementation of GValue is not public or documented. When
allocated on the stack, initializing a GValue is usually done as
documented with:
GValue value = { 0, };
There is lot code around (including WebKit) that added all the missing
fields, resulting in this ugly and non-obvious:
GValue value = { 0, { { 0 } } };
However, this doesn't play nice with -Wmissing-field-initializers for
example. Thus, G_VALUE_INIT.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654793http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577231
The database is an abstract object implemented by the various TLS
backends, which is used by GTlsConnection to lookup certificates
and keys, as well as verify certificate chains.
Also add GTlsInteraction, which can be used to prompt the user
for a password or PIN (used with the database).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636572
Also add convenience _with_unix_fd_list variants to GDBusConnection,
GDBusProxy and GDBusMethodInvocation types to easily support this.
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
This is possible now that we have better support for object path
arrays, see
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=19878998bc386db78614f1c92ff8524a81479c7b
Note that this breaks the ABI of generated code but since
gdbus-codegen(1) has never yet been in a stable GLib release, this is
fine.
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
This commit changes GLib size units policy. We now prefer SI units and
allow for use of proper IEC units where desired.
g_format_size_for_display() which incorrectly mixed IEC units with SI
suffixes is left unmodified, but has been deprecated.
g_format_size() has been introduced which uses SI units and suffixes.
g_format_size_full() has also been added which takes a flags argument to
allow for use of IEC units (with correct suffixes). It also allows for
a "long format" output which includes the total number of bytes. For
example: "238.5 MB (238,472,938 bytes)".
Add G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY along with accessor functions
g_variant_new_objv, g_variant_get_objv and g_variant_dup_objv. Also add
support for '^ao' and '^a&o' format strings for g_variant_new() and
g_variant_get().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654955
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
The function can be used to let regex compile non-NUL-terminated
strings without redesigning the way the pattern is stored in GRegex
objects and retrieved with g_regex_get_pattern.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615895
