I used to use g_strv_length ((char **) p) instead, but that feels
ugly because it g_strv_length() is not designed to operate on
arbitrary pointer arrays.
Commit a8730c51c8 moved the enum
utils from libnm-core to shared/nm-utils.
However, three of those functions are part of public API in libnm.
So, when statically linking against "shared/nm-utils/nm-enum-utils.c"
and dynamically linking against libnm.so, those symbols are present
twice and cause a linker failure.
Fix that by moving the public API back to libnm-core.
Fixes: a8730c51c8
libnm contains the public function nm_utils_enum_from_str() et al.
The function is not flexible enough for nmcli's usecase. So, I would
need another public function like nm_utils_enum_from_str_full() that
has an extended API.
That was already required previously for ifcfg-rh writer, but in that
case I could just add it as internal API as libnm-core is linked statically
with NetworkManager.
I don't want to commit to a public API for an utility function. So move
the code instead to the shared directory, so that nmcli may link
statically against it and use the internal API.
These functions are only used by nm-meta-setting-desc.c. Make them internal.
Unfortunately, they are part of "common.h" which cannot be used without
the rest of nmcli. Still todo.
This part contains static functions and variables to describe
settings. It is distinct from the mechanism to use them, or
access them.
Split it out.
It still uses clients/cli/common.h and clients/cli/utils.h
which shall be fixed next.
GUdevClient always creates a monitor instance, even if there are no subsystems
or handlers defined. Hence the first iteration of NMUdevClient did that as
well.
I think that can be avoided however. We only need a monitor when there is
a event handler subscribed. Contrary to GUdevClient, we know that from the
very beginning.
_NM_GET_PRIVATE() macro is used to implement a standard private-getter, but it
requires that "self" is a pointer of either "const type *" or "type *". That
is great in most cases, but sometimes we have predominatly self pointers of
different type, so it would require a lot of casts.
Add a different form _NM_GET_PRIVATE_VOID() where self pointer can be any
non-const pointer and returns a non-const private pointer after casting.
"shared/nm-setting-metadata.h" will contain data structures
to handle NM setting properties in a generic way.
For now, this is internal API, but shared between libnm-core (which
extends to libnm, NetworkManager, device-plugins, settings-plugins),
and nmcli.
Related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732292
I think NM_CACHED_QUARK_FCN() is better because:
- the implementation is in our hand, meaning it is clear that
putting a "static" before NM_CACHED_QUARK_FCN() is guaranteed to
work -- without relying on G_DEFINE_QUARK() to be defined in a way
that this works (in fact, we currently never do that and instead
make all functions non-static).
- it does not construct function names by appending "_quark".
Thus you can grep for the entire function name and finding
the place where it is implemented.
- same with the stings, where the new macro doesn't stringify the
argument, which is less surpising. Again, now you can grep
for the string including the double quoting.
(yes, I really use grep to understand the source-code)
NM_CACHED_QUARK_FCN() is a replacement for G_DEFINE_QUARK().
G_DEFINE_QUARK() is mostly used to define GError quarks. As
such, it always appends _quark() to the function name, which
is unfavorable because it makes it harder to grep for the
definition of the function.
In general I think that macros that defined symbols by concatenating
something should be avoided because that makes it harder to locate
where the symbol was defined.
Fix it by converting the macro to an inline function. It's anyway
nicer.
$ make src/src_libNetworkManagerBase_la-main-utils.lo
CC src/src_libNetworkManagerBase_la-main-utils.lo
In file included from ./shared/nm-utils/nm-macros-internal.h:29:0,
from ./shared/nm-default.h:178,
from src/main-utils.c:22:
src/main-utils.c: In function ‘nm_main_utils_setup_signals’:
./shared/nm-utils/nm-glib.h:144:36: error: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true [-Werror=type-limits]
&& glib_micro_version >= (micro))))
^
src/main-utils.c:82:6: note: in expansion of macro ‘nm_glib_check_version’
if (nm_glib_check_version (2, 36, 0)) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Makefile:12312: recipe for target 'src/src_libNetworkManagerBase_la-main-utils.lo' failed
As build-requirement, we either require
- python2 with python-gobject-base
- python3 with python3-gobject-base
Previously, we would require that a plain `python` gives the desired
interpreter version.
If somebody's "/usr/bin/env python" however points to a different
python version, there was no easy way to change it -- aside
resetting the $PATH variable to some desired "python" binary.
Now, you can specify it during configure:
./configure PYTHON=python3 ...
This especially matters, if you only have python3-gobject-base
installed, you /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python2.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775768
Similar to systemd's PROTECT_ERRNO. The difference it, that it doesn't
treat the auto-variable as internal, so it is allowed to use it. E.g.
if (!(fd = open (...)) {
NM_AUTO_PROTECT_ERRNO (errno_saved);
printf ("error: %s", g_strerror (errno_saved));
return FALSE;
}
We already have gs_fd_close, which however doesn't preserve
errno and only checks for fd != -1. Add our own define.
Downside is, we have to include stdio.h and errno.h,
which effectively ends up to be included *everywhere*.
We usually don't build NM with g_assert() disabled (G_DISABLE_ASSERT).
But even if we would, there is no assertion macro that always evaluates
the condition for possible side effects.
I think that is a useful thing to have.
It was a macro to pass on the non-const-ness of the argument, but
that just doesn't make sense.
That is a signature
char *nm_str_not_empty (char *)
does not make sense, because you cannot transfer ownership
conditionally without additional checks to avoid a leak. Which makes
this form is pointless. For example:
char *
foo (void)
{
char *s;
s = _create_value ();
return nm_str_not_empty (s); /* leaks "" */
}