platform/upstream/dbus.git
13 years agoRemove the old, vague Naming Conventions section
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:07:34 +0000 (17:07 +0100)]
Remove the old, vague Naming Conventions section

The defining instance of each namespaced term now contains notes on
conventional naming.

13 years agoBriefly mention why to namespace object-paths
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:46 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Briefly mention why to namespace object-paths

13 years agoDescribe conventional naming of errors
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:30 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Describe conventional naming of errors

13 years agoDescribe conventional naming of methods and signals
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:21 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Describe conventional naming of methods and signals

13 years agoDescribe best-practices for naming well-known bus names
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:06 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Describe best-practices for naming well-known bus names

13 years agoFormally define a unique connection name and a well-known bus name
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:05:39 +0000 (17:05 +0100)]
Formally define a unique connection name and a well-known bus name

13 years agoWrite about best-practices for interface names in the same place they're defined
Simon McVittie [Tue, 17 May 2011 16:04:39 +0000 (17:04 +0100)]
Write about best-practices for interface names in the same place they're defined

I'm deliberately using a hypothetical API from example.com, rather
than a real API, to avoid perpetuating these over-simplifications any
further than they've spread already:

- "namespaces start with org.freedesktop"
- "namespaces start with org"
- "interfaces are defined by their sole implementation"
- "services have one object implementing one interface"
- "interfaces always behave like classes"
- "interfaces are always noun phrases"
- "there is a freedesktop.org D-Bus API for screensavers"

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 3 May 2011 09:27:52 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agodbus_connection_can_send_type: clarify that invalid codes are allowed here
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:02:23 +0000 (17:02 +0000)]
dbus_connection_can_send_type: clarify that invalid codes are allowed here

This is sufficiently unusual that it seems worth saying explicitly

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35182
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:45:20 +0000 (15:45 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoNEWS
Simon McVittie [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:44:35 +0000 (15:44 +0100)]
NEWS

13 years agominotaur: bail if asked to monitor >1 bus
Will Thompson [Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:19:05 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
minotaur: bail if asked to monitor >1 bus

A coworker was just tripped up by `dbus-monitor --session --system` only
monitoring the system bus. This patch would have saved him reproducing a
tricky bug several times!

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26548
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoNEWS for 1.5
Simon McVittie [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:05:19 +0000 (18:05 +0100)]
NEWS for 1.5

13 years agoClarify that 'r' and 'e' cannot appear in signatures
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:06:58 +0000 (16:06 +0100)]
Clarify that 'r' and 'e' cannot appear in signatures

Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34529

13 years agoReserve 'm', '*', '?', '@', '&' and '^' for their uses in GVariant
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:14:23 +0000 (17:14 +0100)]
Reserve 'm', '*', '?', '@', '&' and '^' for their uses in GVariant

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34529
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:59:35 +0000 (17:59 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoNEWS for 1.4
Simon McVittie [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:59:28 +0000 (17:59 +0100)]
NEWS for 1.4

13 years agomachine-id: fall back to reading /etc/machine-id if D-Bus machine ID is not available
Lennart Poettering [Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:58:39 +0000 (02:58 +0100)]
machine-id: fall back to reading /etc/machine-id if D-Bus machine ID is not available

Newer systemd-based systems support a global machine ID with the same
metrics as the D-Bus machine ID, but more powerful semantics (for
example on ro media) in /etc/machine-id.

If the D-Bus machine ID cannot be read, fall back to the systemd machine
ID.

This is a first step towards allowing D-Bus to be started up during
early boot where /var is not available.

[plus a whitespace fix -smcv]

Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35228

13 years ago_dbus_check_fdleaks_enter, _dbus_check_fdleaks_leave: whitespace
Simon McVittie [Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:16:28 +0000 (10:16 +0000)]
_dbus_check_fdleaks_enter, _dbus_check_fdleaks_leave: whitespace

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35173
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoDon't report file descriptors as "leaked" if they were already open
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:53:23 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Don't report file descriptors as "leaked" if they were already open

This is necessary to run the regression tests under valgrind (if
telling it to output to a dedicated fd), gdb, fakeroot etc.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35173
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:20:18 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

Conflicts:
NEWS

13 years agoNEWS
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:19:24 +0000 (19:19 +0100)]
NEWS

13 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'origin/dbus-1.4' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:18:35 +0000 (19:18 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/dbus-1.4' into dbus-1.4

13 years agoNEWS
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:17:29 +0000 (19:17 +0100)]
NEWS

13 years agodbus-1.pc.in: move -lpthread, -lrt, Winsock to Libs.private
Simon McVittie [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:21:04 +0000 (13:21 +0000)]
dbus-1.pc.in: move -lpthread, -lrt, Winsock to Libs.private

"Private libraries  are  libraries  which  are  not  exposed through your
library, but are needed in the case of static linking"  -- pkg-config(1)

Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:15:18 +0000 (19:15 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoNEWS
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:15:09 +0000 (19:15 +0100)]
NEWS

13 years agoactivation: Use _dbus_system_log for activation information
Colin Walters [Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:52:50 +0000 (15:52 -0400)]
activation: Use _dbus_system_log for activation information

Log when we are activating something (and whether it's via systemd)
as well as when we fail to activate, and when one succeeds.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35705

13 years agoAdd dbus-1-uninstalled.pc.in
Simon McVittie [Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:12:46 +0000 (19:12 +0000)]
Add dbus-1-uninstalled.pc.in

See: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/09/pc-uninstalled/

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32827
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:05:53 +0000 (19:05 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

Conflicts:
NEWS

13 years agoAdd support for --disable-gc-sections for broken toolchains
Simon McVittie [Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:13:12 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
Add support for --disable-gc-sections for broken toolchains

Also use AC_LINK_IFELSE rather than reinventing it as a shell function.
This was the last user of ld_supports_flag, so, delete it.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33466
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoDrop outdated list of options from README, mention configure --help instead
Simon McVittie [Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:33:29 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Drop outdated list of options from README, mention configure --help instead

13 years agoRelease notes for the -fPIE change
Simon McVittie [Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:34:13 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
Release notes for the -fPIE change

13 years agoDon't force use of -fPIE for the dbus-daemon if apparently supported
Simon McVittie [Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:23:24 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
Don't force use of -fPIE for the dbus-daemon if apparently supported

It's a minor security benefit, but not automatically beneficial (it
enables ASLR, but breaks prelinking, some buggy toolchains, and some gdb
versions). Distributions who know their infrastructure works well can
enable it just as easily via

    ./configure CFLAGS="-fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie"

without extra support from us, and that's a generic solution applicable to
many packages.

Similarly, don't force libdbus and libdbus-internal to be PIC: libtool
knows better than we do whether that's necessary/beneficial on a
particular platform.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16621
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27215
Bug-NB: NB#171940
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoInstall dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in the conventional way
Simon McVittie [Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:11:27 +0000 (12:11 +0000)]
Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in the conventional way

Also remove some pointless indirection (extra_tests etc.), don't install
the unused directory $(libexecdir)/dbus-1 (we actually install the
launch helper directly into $(libexecdir)), and allow dbus_daemondir to be
set on Windows rather than forcing dbus-daemon to be installed to
$(bindir) there.

dbus_daemon_execdir has to contain "exec" so that the dbus-daemon will be
installed by "make install-exec" and not "make install-data".

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14512
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agodbus_bus_add_match: improve error documentation.
Will Thompson [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:18:25 +0000 (18:18 +0100)]
dbus_bus_add_match: improve error documentation.

It's simply not true that the only possible error is a lack of resources
in the bus.

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:27:09 +0000 (11:27 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoWhen uploading docs, use rsync -p to set permissions
Simon McVittie [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:04:19 +0000 (12:04 +0100)]
When uploading docs, use rsync -p to set permissions

It turns out that rsync --chmod means "pretend the source files had
already had this chmod operation applied to them", and not "chmod the
destination files" like you'd expect.

As a result, the -p (--perms) option is also needed, so that rsync will
"preserve" the modified permissions. Otherwise, the docs will not be
group-writeable as intended, and only the person who made the previous
upload will be able to upload them next time.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36130
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoDevelopment version: 1.5.1, dbus-specification 0.17
Simon McVittie [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:04:30 +0000 (19:04 +0100)]
Development version: 1.5.1, dbus-specification 0.17

13 years agoPrepare 1.5.0 dbus-1.5.0
Simon McVittie [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:34:28 +0000 (13:34 +0100)]
Prepare 1.5.0

- D-Bus Specification 0.16
- libtool 9:0:6

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:23:17 +0000 (15:23 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

Conflicts:
NEWS

13 years agodevelopment version
Simon McVittie [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:22:31 +0000 (15:22 +0100)]
development version

13 years agoPrepare version 1.4.8 dbus-1.4.8
Simon McVittie [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:30:23 +0000 (14:30 +0100)]
Prepare version 1.4.8

13 years agoactivation: Strip out code to compare by Exec=
Colin Walters [Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:21:35 +0000 (13:21 -0400)]
activation: Strip out code to compare by Exec=

In commit:
 075945f6        (John (J5) Palmieri     2005-07-14 20:44:15 +0000

some code was added to compare services by Exec key.  The changelog is
not pariticularly informative as to why this was added. But while
debugging other code, we noticed this.

Comparing by Exec key is not in the specification, and triggered a
problem where while converting services to use systemd for activation,
a change was made to use Exec=/bin/false and simply rely on systemd
to activate.

While I think it was broken for the service files to be changed
to Exec=/bin/false, we shouldn't be doing something here that's
not in the spec either.

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35750

13 years agooops, fix XML mis-nesting
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:27:52 +0000 (18:27 +0100)]
oops, fix XML mis-nesting

13 years agolist which parts of the Desktop Entry spec apply to service files
Sven Herzberg [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:25:34 +0000 (18:25 +0100)]
list which parts of the Desktop Entry spec apply to service files

Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19159

13 years agoMerge branch 'arg0namespace-24317'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:16:01 +0000 (17:16 +0100)]
Merge branch 'arg0namespace-24317'

Reviewed-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24317
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31818
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34870

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:15:41 +0000 (17:15 +0100)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoMention dbus-specification.xml's separate versioning in HACKING
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:31:06 +0000 (16:31 +0100)]
Mention dbus-specification.xml's separate versioning in HACKING

13 years agoCheck parsing (or otherwise) of path_namespace in match rules
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:30:41 +0000 (16:30 +0100)]
Check parsing (or otherwise) of path_namespace in match rules

13 years agoRemove support for trailing "." on arg0namespace
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:13:56 +0000 (13:13 +0100)]
Remove support for trailing "." on arg0namespace

13 years agoRename path_prefix to path_namespace and disallow trailing '/'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:12:22 +0000 (16:12 +0100)]
Rename path_prefix to path_namespace and disallow trailing '/'

Also disallow having both path and path_namespace in the same match rule
(it wouldn't make sense, path is more specific than path_namespace).

As per IRC discussion with davidz and wjt.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34870

13 years agoDocument when arg0namespace was added, for completeness
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:27:01 +0000 (15:27 +0100)]
Document when arg0namespace was added, for completeness

13 years agoDocument when argNpath was added, for completeness
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:26:49 +0000 (15:26 +0100)]
Document when argNpath was added, for completeness

13 years agospecification: fix versioning
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:46:04 +0000 (14:46 +0100)]
specification: fix versioning

We've added things since 0.15, so this isn't still 0.15.

13 years agopath_prefix: anchor matches at path-component boundaries, and give examples
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:45:19 +0000 (14:45 +0100)]
path_prefix: anchor matches at path-component boundaries, and give examples

It seems wrong that path_prefix="/foo" matches /foobar, and it isn't
difficult or expensive to check.

13 years agoAdd path_prefix match rule
David Zeuthen [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:32:34 +0000 (10:32 -0500)]
Add path_prefix match rule

Add a new path_prefix match rule that can be used for efficient
implementations of the org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface
(see bug 34869).

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34870

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
13 years agore-word description of arg0namespace
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:12:02 +0000 (13:12 +0100)]
re-word description of arg0namespace

It's unclear at first reading whether "may contain only one element"
means "elements >= 1, as an exception to the usual rule that
elements >= 2" (which is what was intended), or "elements == 1".

"Like a bus name or interface name" is a little ambiguous because they
have different syntactic restrictions: specifically allow any valid bus
name, which also allows all interface names.

13 years agosignals.h: rename argument in declaration to match implementation
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:41:52 +0000 (12:41 +0100)]
signals.h: rename argument in declaration to match implementation

13 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'wjt/arg0namespace' into arg0namespace-24317
Simon McVittie [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:40:30 +0000 (12:40 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'wjt/arg0namespace' into arg0namespace-24317

13 years agoBreak up the monster conditional in config-parser so gcov can cope
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:45:04 +0000 (11:45 +0000)]
Break up the monster conditional in config-parser so gcov can cope

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10887
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoUpdate NEWS for master
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:02:19 +0000 (12:02 +0000)]
Update NEWS for master

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:58:36 +0000 (11:58 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoUpdate NEWS
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:58:28 +0000 (11:58 +0000)]
Update NEWS

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4', rejecting all changes
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:53:24 +0000 (11:53 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4', rejecting all changes

This commit changes nothing, but means that merge tracking won't try to
apply the reversion of d1d395774435..09c9d6406b75f to master in future.

13 years agoRevert merge of master (dbus-1.5) into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:53:09 +0000 (11:53 +0000)]
Revert merge of master (dbus-1.5) into dbus-1.4

This reverts commits d1d395774435..09c9d6406b75f, keeping Lennart's
addition of UnknownInterface etc.

13 years agoconnection: hook UnknownObject and UnknownInterface up where appropriate
Lennart Poettering [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:10:31 +0000 (04:10 +0100)]
connection: hook UnknownObject and UnknownInterface up where appropriate

This makes use of UnknownInterface and UnknownObject where appropriate
in the D-Bus core.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34527
Reviewed-By: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoprotocol: introduce four new errors
Lennart Poettering [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:06:32 +0000 (04:06 +0100)]
protocol: introduce four new errors

UnknownInterface, UnknownObject, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly,
as discussed on the ML.

The first two are already used by various bindings, such as the Qt and
Java binding, but have never been made official.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34527
Reviewed-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMake dbus_type_is_valid into public API
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:35:14 +0000 (17:35 +0000)]
Make dbus_type_is_valid into public API

This is just as useful for bindings as dbus_signature_validate, and I
think it's a good design principle to say that anything checked in a
_dbus_return_if_fail should be something the caller could check
for themselves.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20496
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:07:15 +0000 (19:07 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoadd doxygen.stamp to .gitignore
Simon McVittie [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:06:09 +0000 (13:06 +0000)]
add doxygen.stamp to .gitignore

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35182
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years ago_dbus_marshal_write_fixed_multi: remove obsolete FIXME comment
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:55:55 +0000 (16:55 +0000)]
_dbus_marshal_write_fixed_multi: remove obsolete FIXME comment

As far as I can tell, we've never accepted out-of-range booleans and
canonicalized them, ever since this was first committed in 2004. If sent,
they'd be considered to be invalid by recipients, so they're unambiguously
an error.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35182
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agodbus_message_iter_append_basic: remove misleading documentation
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:30:43 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
dbus_message_iter_append_basic: remove misleading documentation

This function specifically doesn't support Unix fds and is documented as
such.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35182
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoImplement uninstallation and cleanup for Doxygen docs, fixing distcheck
Simon McVittie [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:42:12 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
Implement uninstallation and cleanup for Doxygen docs, fixing distcheck

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'validate-when-sending-16338' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:59:26 +0000 (18:59 +0000)]
Merge branch 'validate-when-sending-16338' into dbus-1.4

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agodbus_type_is_basic etc.: it is an error to pass in bad typecodes
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:51:56 +0000 (16:51 +0000)]
dbus_type_is_basic etc.: it is an error to pass in bad typecodes

Previously, the comments said "this function will crash", but that's not
strictly true (checks can be disabled or made non-fatal). Their behaviour
is undefined if you do that, though.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20496
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoRequire specific user action to compile without 64-bit support
Simon McVittie [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:32:06 +0000 (13:32 +0000)]
Require specific user action to compile without 64-bit support

The D-Bus type system isn't implementable without 64-bit support, although
for historical reasons we have some sort of semi-working support for
platforms with no 64-bit integers. Let's find out whether any
practically relevant platform still lacks these types...

(GLib appears to have required 64-bit integer types since 2001.)

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35114
Reviewed-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:15:56 +0000 (12:15 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoautogen: add -I m4 to aclocal path
Lennart Poettering [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:56:23 +0000 (03:56 +0100)]
autogen: add -I m4 to aclocal path

This fixes 2b5959882a403cddba754b37b58bdc49bff01f90 which forgot to add
m4/ to the command line of aclocal but moved scripts there.

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:35:46 +0000 (12:35 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoUpdate NEWS
Simon McVittie [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:35:39 +0000 (12:35 +0000)]
Update NEWS

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:51:46 +0000 (14:51 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoFix some more stray occurrences of ELEMENT_TYPE
Simon McVittie [Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:55:10 +0000 (13:55 +0000)]
Fix some more stray occurrences of ELEMENT_TYPE

13 years agoDo not use the name ELEMENT_TYPE
Andre Heinecke [Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:43:23 +0000 (11:43 +0100)]
Do not use the name ELEMENT_TYPE

On Windows Systems ELEMENT_TYPE is already defined
in Winioctl.h this header is included indirectly
in dbus-sysdeps.h. By avoiding the use of the Name
ELEMENT_TYPE it is ensured that config-parser-common.h
can be included together with dbus-sysdeps.h

Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agodbus_message_iter_append_fixed_array: add a check for valid booleans
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:30:00 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
dbus_message_iter_append_fixed_array: add a check for valid booleans

The reasoning is the same as for dbus_message_iter_append_basic.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16338
Reviewed-by: Cosimo Alfarano <cosimo.alfarano@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agodbus_message_iter_append_basic: validate booleans too
Simon McVittie [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:29:17 +0000 (16:29 +0000)]
dbus_message_iter_append_basic: validate booleans too

Sending, for instance, ((dbus_bool_t) 666) is a programming error and
should be diagnosed as such.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16338
Reviewed-by: Cosimo Alfarano <cosimo.alfarano@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agodbus_message_iter_append_basic: check string-like arguments for validity
Simon McVittie [Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:44:48 +0000 (17:44 +0000)]
dbus_message_iter_append_basic: check string-like arguments for validity

Strings: UTF-8 with no embedded NULs, by adding a new internal function,
_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8

Object paths, signatures: the obvious syntactic checks

This moves some of the burden of validation to the sender.

When sending <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt>
10240 times with up to 1024 parallel calls pending, on a single-core ARM
Linux device, I found that user CPU time in dbus-spam increased by up to 80%
as a result of the validation. However, when sending messages to dbus-daemon,
overall throughput only reduced by 15%, and when sending messages to an echo
service, overall throughput actually improved by around 14% (presumably
because making the sender CPU-bound influenced kernel scheduling).

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16338
Bug-NB: NB#223152
Reviewed-by: Cosimo Alfarano <cosimo.alfarano@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:49:55 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

Conflicts:
NEWS

13 years agoMerge branch 'doxygenate' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:49:19 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
Merge branch 'doxygenate' into dbus-1.4

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
Conflicts:
configure.ac
doc/Makefile.am

13 years agoNEWS so far
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:08:48 +0000 (12:08 +0000)]
NEWS so far

13 years agoMerge branch 'changequote' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:02:00 +0000 (12:02 +0000)]
Merge branch 'changequote' into dbus-1.4

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'require-display-for-autolaunch-19997' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:31:29 +0000 (11:31 +0000)]
Merge branch 'require-display-for-autolaunch-19997' into dbus-1.4

Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
13 years agoMerge branch 'modern-autofoo-32245' into dbus-1.4
Simon McVittie [Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:30:17 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
Merge branch 'modern-autofoo-32245' into dbus-1.4

13 years agoAllow X11 autolaunch to be disabled even if the headers/libraries are there
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:57:05 +0000 (18:57 +0000)]
Allow X11 autolaunch to be disabled even if the headers/libraries are there

In an embedded system where the D-Bus session is a core part of the
environment, like Maemo, accidentally auto-launching a second session bus
(for instance for a concurrent ssh session) is a bad idea - it can lead
to a "split brain" situation where half the applications in the GUI are
using a different bus. In these controlled environments, it'd be useful
to prevent autolaunch from ever happening.

(As a side benefit, the changes to configure.in also mean that packagers
can explicitly --enable-x11-autolaunch, to make sure that failure to find
X will make compilation fail cleanly.)

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19997
Bug-NB: NB#219964

13 years agoDon't attempt Unix X11 autolaunching if DISPLAY isn't set
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:17:07 +0000 (18:17 +0000)]
Don't attempt Unix X11 autolaunching if DISPLAY isn't set

The known use cases for autolaunching (ssh -Y firefox,
run konqueror in legacy DE) all need $DISPLAY too.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19997

13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:40:31 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoconfig-parser regression test: don't require that fd.o #34496 exists
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:33:27 +0000 (18:33 +0000)]
config-parser regression test: don't require that fd.o #34496 exists

Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoMerge branch 'dbus-1.4'
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:17:36 +0000 (17:17 +0000)]
Merge branch 'dbus-1.4'

13 years agoGive XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS for servicedirs
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:17:22 +0000 (17:17 +0000)]
Give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS for servicedirs

According to the XDG Base Directory Specification, “the base directory
defined by $XDG_DATA_HOME is considered more important than any of the
base directories defined by $XDG_DATA_DIRS.”  This makes it easier to
override a system service file as a normal user.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34496
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
13 years agoHonour aclocal flags in Makefile.am, rather than gluing them onto ACLOCAL
Simon McVittie [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:58:01 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Honour aclocal flags in Makefile.am, rather than gluing them onto ACLOCAL

Part of a patch by Javier Jardón.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32245
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>