gcc's linker does not add constructors from object files to the main
executable if they are built into a convenience library and then the
library is linked to the executable, unless something outside of the
object file with the constructor references a symbol from the object
file.
http://osdir.com/ml/libtool-gnu/2011-06/msg00003.html
"Yes, when convenience libraries are used to create a shared library, all the
objects are included in the output, when the output is an application they are
used like a normal archive library.
Either use them to create a shared library or, if creating an application,
don't use them, use the objects instead."
Further patches will remove all references to the NMDevice subclasses
from nm-manager.c, and have each NMDevice subclass register itself
with a factory through a constructor. But due to the above issue,
we need to somehow ensure the constructor in each nm-device-*.c file
gets added to the executable. This is accomplished by explicitly
linking each NMDevice subclass' object file into the main executable.
(Note that we cannot use -Wl,-whole-archive here because libtool only
supports this option for linking a convenience library to a shared
library, but not to an executable, and will actively prevent using
-whole-archive in LDFLAGS)
In preparation for internal device types exposing factories too, it's
easier to have the device type that the factory creates be returned
by the factory object instead of the plugin, because internal device
types don't have plugins.
This requires that we create the factory objects earlier, which
further requires that any operations that trigger signals must be
moved out of each factory's construction path to a separate start()
function.
Instead of creating it in NMSettings, where we must use
NM_IS_DEVICE_ETHERNET() (not NM_DEVICE_TYPE_ETHERNET because various generic
devices masquerade as NM_DEVICE_TYPE_ETHERNET too), push knowledge
of which device types create default wired connections into the device
types themselves. This solves a problem with testcases where
libNetworkManager.a (which testcases link to) requires the symbol
nm_type_device_ethernet().
Instead of having basically the same code in a bunch of different
place to find helper programs, just have one place do it. Yes, this
does mean that the same sequence of paths is searched for all helpers
(so for example, dnsmasq will no longer be found first in /usr/local)
but I think consistency is the better option here.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734131
Otherwise we assert in _nm_utils_strv_to_slist() when setting a property,
using the code like:
g_value_init (&value, G_PARAM_SPEC_VALUE_TYPE (param_spec));
g_param_value_set_default (param_spec, &value);
g_object_set_property (G_OBJECT (setting), prop, &value);
e.g:
nmcli con mod my_profile eth.mac-address-blacklist "02:14:20:e6:16:83"
(changed by commit 6a4127cfa0)
g_strsplit_set() puts empty strings ("") into the resulting string array when
a delimiter character appears as the first or last character in the string or
when there are adjacent delimiter characters. However, this is not what is
useful in most cases.
Make register() and unregister() have cancellable sync and async
variants. And make NMSecretAgent implement GInitable/GAsyncInitable,
and do the initial auto-registration as part of initialization rather
than doing it asynchronously and emitting a signal.
Implement some basic secret agent functionality in
test-networkmanager-service.py, and add test-secret-agent to test that
NMSecretAgent works as expected.
If an NMSecretAgent is attached to the session bus rather than the
system bus, then it's presumably a test program, and so we don't want
to check that the peer is root.
The only plausible use case for the NMObject:dbus-connection property
is for using the session bus in test programs. So just drop it and use
an environment variable to decide which bus to use instead.
dbus_connection_allocate_data_slot() can only fail on ENOMEM, in which
case the immediately-following call to g_set_error() would also get
ENOMEM and abort. So just simplify and assert that the libdbus call
didn't fail.
Before, _nm_setting_to_dbus() would return NULL instead of an empty
hash. This would be the case, if all properties are default.
When exporting connections via DBUS, we eventually call
_nm_setting_to_dbus() to convert the connection into a hash of hashes.
By _nm_setting_to_hash() converting empty hashes to NULL, the setting
is missing. Not returning empty hashes means that to_dbus() and
new_from_dbus() don't make a valid round-trip conversion.
Fix that by always returning a hash from _nm_setting_to_dbus()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735255
See-also: 4d32618264
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Port the dbus-glib-based examples to GDBus.
Also, don't use libnm in them at all; there's not much point in
examples that use the D-Bus API directly if they're just going to fall
back to libnm for the hard stuff... (And also, this avoids the problem
that GDBus uses GVariant, while the libnm-core APIs currently still
use GHashTables.)
Also fix up some comment grammar and copyright style, and add emacs
modelines where missing.
Also rename the existing GDBus-based examples to have names ending in
"-gdbus", not "-GDBus", since there's no reason to gratuitously
capitalize here.
NM keeps interfaces IFF_UP when possible to receive link layer
events like carrier changes. Unfortunately, the kernel also
uses IFF_UP as a flag to assign an IPv6LL address to the interface,
which results in IPv6 connectivity on the link even if the interface
is not supposed to be activated/connected.
NM sets disable_ipv6=1 to ensure that the kernel does not set up
IPv6LL connectivity on interfaces when they are not supposed to
be active and connected. Unfortunately, that prevents users from
manually adding IPv6 addresses to the interface, since they expect
previous kernel behavior where IPv6 is enabled whenever the
interface is IFF_UP.
Furthermore, interfaces like PPP and some WWAN devices provide
misleading information to the kernel which causes the kernel to
create the wrong IPv6LL address for the interface. The IPv6LL
address for these devices is obtained through control channels
instead (IPV6CP for PPP, proprietary protocols for WWAN devices)
and should be used instead of the kernel address. So we'd like
to suppress kernel IPv6LL address generation on these interfaces
anyway.
This patch makes use of the netlink IFLA_INET6_ADDR_GEN_MODE
attribute to take over assignment of IPv6LL addresses while
keeping the interface IFF_UP, to ensure there is only IPv6
connectivity when the user requests it.
To remain compliant with standards, if a user adds IPv6 addresses
externally, NetworkManager must also immediately add an IPv6LL
address for that interface too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734149
