Fixes build:
In file included from ../src/devices/wwan/nm-service-providers.c:10:
In file included from ../shared/nm-default.h:279:
../libnm-core/nm-core-types.h:14:10: fatal error: 'nm-core-enum-types.h' file not found
#include "nm-core-enum-types.h"
^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [src/devices/wwan/src_devices_wwan_tests_test_service_providers-nm-service-providers.o] Error 1
This adds capability to hand over the network configuration from
OpenFirmware (and potentially other boot loaders with openfirmware
support such as U-Boot) to NetworkManager.
It's done analogously to ACPI/iBFT. In fact, the same ip=ibft command
line option is used, adding a more general ip=fw alias. This probably
deserves some documentation, but I'm not adding any at this time.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/257
gtkdoc-scan supports regular expressions in the --ignore-decorators
command-line option. Since it is easier to use a regexp than grepping
macros from a source file, revert the ugly solution from commit
2d941dc95a ('build: fix errors when building with gtk-doc 1.32').
This file causes a crash [1], add it to the tests.
Note that the test only check parsing the file and the
crash happens in the "upper" layers. So, it's not really
a test for the crash. But at least have such a file in
our repository.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/235
BlueZ 5.0 was released in December 2012 and broke API with
BlueZ 4. NetworkManager supports Bluez 5 for years already.
Of course, version 4 is long gone by now, so remove it.
Completely rework how settings plugin handle connections and how
NMSettings tracks the list of connections.
Previously, settings plugins would return objects of (a subtype of) type
NMSettingsConnection. The NMSettingsConnection was tightly coupled with
the settings plugin. That has a lot of downsides.
Change that. When changing this basic relation how settings connections
are tracked, everything falls appart. That's why this is a huge change.
Also, since I have to largely rewrite the settings plugins, I also
added support for multiple keyfile directories, handle in-memory
connections only by keyfile plugin and (partly) use copy-on-write NMConnection
instances. I don't want to spend effort rewriting large parts while
preserving the old way, that anyway should change. E.g. while rewriting ifcfg-rh,
I don't want to let it handle in-memory connections because that's not right
long-term.
--
If the settings plugins themself create subtypes of NMSettingsConnection
instances, then a lot of knowledge about tracking connections moves
to the plugins.
Just try to follow the code what happend during nm_settings_add_connection().
Note how the logic is spread out:
- nm_settings_add_connection() calls plugin's add_connection()
- add_connection() creates a NMSettingsConnection subtype
- the plugin has to know that it's called during add-connection and
not emit NM_SETTINGS_PLUGIN_CONNECTION_ADDED signal
- NMSettings calls claim_connection() which hocks up the new
NMSettingsConnection instance and configures the instance
(like calling nm_settings_connection_added()).
This summary does not sound like a lot, but try to follow that code. The logic
is all over the place.
Instead, settings plugins should have a very simple API for adding, modifying,
deleting, loading and reloading connections. All the plugin does is to return a
NMSettingsStorage handle. The storage instance is a handle to identify a profile
in storage (e.g. a particular file). The settings plugin is free to subtype
NMSettingsStorage, but it's not necessary.
There are no more events raised, and the settings plugin implements the small
API in a straightforward manner.
NMSettings now drives all of this. Even NMSettingsConnection has now
very little concern about how it's tracked and delegates only to NMSettings.
This should make settings plugins simpler. Currently settings plugins
are so cumbersome to implement, that we avoid having them. It should not be
like that and it should be easy, beneficial and lightweight to create a new
settings plugin.
Note also how the settings plugins no longer care about duplicate UUIDs.
Duplicated UUIDs are a fact of life and NMSettings must handle them. No
need to overly concern settings plugins with that.
--
NMSettingsConnection is exposed directly on D-Bus (being a subtype of
NMDBusObject) but it was also a GObject type provided by the settings
plugin. Hence, it was not possible to migrate a profile from one plugin to
another.
However that would be useful when one profile does not support a
connection type (like ifcfg-rh not supporting VPN). Currently such
migration is not implemented except for migrating them to/from keyfile's
run directory. The problem is that migrating profiles in general is
complicated but in some cases it is important to do.
For example checkpoint rollback should recreate the profile in the right
settings plugin, not just add it to persistent storage. This is not yet
properly implemented.
--
Previously, both keyfile and ifcfg-rh plugin implemented in-memory (unsaved)
profiles, while ifupdown plugin cannot handle them. That meant duplication of code
and a ifupdown profile could not be modified or made unsaved.
This is now unified and only keyfile plugin handles in-memory profiles (bgo #744711).
Also, NMSettings is aware of such profiles and treats them specially.
In particular, NMSettings drives the migration between persistent and non-persistent
storage.
Note that a settings plugins may create truly generated, in-memory profiles.
The settings plugin is free to generate and persist the profiles in any way it
wishes. But the concept of "unsaved" profiles is now something explicitly handled
by keyfile plugin. Also, these "unsaved" keyfile profiles are persisted to file system
too, to the /run directory. This is great for two reasons: first of all, all
profiles from keyfile storage in fact have a backing file -- even the
unsaved ones. It also means you can create "unsaved" profiles in /run
and load them with `nmcli connection load`, meaning there is a file
based API for creating unsaved profiles.
The other advantage is that these profiles now survive restarting
NetworkManager. It's paramount that restarting the daemon is as
non-disruptive as possible. Persisting unsaved files to /run improves
here significantly.
--
In the past, NMSettingsConnection also implemented NMConnection interface.
That was already changed a while ago and instead users call now
nm_settings_connection_get_connection() to delegate to a
NMSimpleConnection. What however still happened was that the NMConnection
instance gets never swapped but instead the instance was modified with
nm_connection_replace_settings_from_connection(), clear-secrets, etc.
Change that and treat the NMConnection instance immutable. Instead of modifying
it, reference/clone a new instance. This changes that previously when somebody
wanted to keep a reference to an NMConnection, then the profile would be cloned.
Now, it is supposed to be safe to reference the instance directly and everybody
must ensure not to modify the instance. nmtst_connection_assert_unchanging()
should help with that.
The point is that the settings plugins may keep references to the
NMConnection instance, and so does the NMSettingsConnection. We want
to avoid cloning the instances as long as they are the same.
Likewise, the device's applied connection can now also be referenced
instead of cloning it. This is not yet done, and possibly there are
further improvements possible.
--
Also implement multiple keyfile directores /usr/lib, /etc, /run (rh #1674545,
bgo #772414).
It was always the case that multiple files could provide the same UUID
(both in case of keyfile and ifcfg-rh). For keyfile plugin, if a profile in
read-only storage in /usr/lib gets modified, then it gets actually stored in
/etc (or /run, if the profile is unsaved).
--
While at it, make /etc/network/interfaces profiles for ifupdown plugin reloadable.
--
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772414https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744711https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674545
In file included from ./shared/systemd/sd-adapt-shared/nm-sd-adapt-shared.h:21,
from shared/systemd/src/shared/dns-domain.c:3:
./shared/nm-default.h:106:10: fatal error: config-extra.h: No such file or directory
#include "config-extra.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:12933: shared/systemd/src/shared/libnm_systemd_shared_la-dns-domain.lo] Error 1
Fixes: 7d3098ff90 ('systemd: add dns-domain utils to systemd static library')
dns-domain.c contains useful functions for manipulating DNS names.
Add it to the systemd static library we build in shared/, similarly to
what we already do for other utility files that were originally in
src/systemd/src/basic/.
This is inspired by the existing systemd integration, with a few differences:
* This parses the WPAD option, which systemd requested, but did not use.
* We hook into the DAD handling, only making use of the configured address
once DAD has completed successfully, and declining the lease if it fails.
There are still many areas of possible improvement. In particular, we need
to ensure the parsing of all options are compliant, as n-dhcp4 treats all
options as opaque, unlike sd-dhcp4. We probably also need to look at how
to handle failures and retries (in particular if we decline a lease).
We need to query the current MTU at client startu, as well as the hardware
broadcast address. Both these are provided by the kernel over netlink, so
it should simply be a matter of hooking that up with NM's netlink layer.
Contribution under LGPL2.0+, in addition to stated licenses.
The functionality of the ibft settings plugin is now handled by
nm-initrd-generator. There is no need for it anymore, drop it.
Note that ibft called iscsiadm, which requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN to work
([1]). We really want to drop this capability, so the current solution
of a settings plugin (as it is implemented) is wrong. The solution
instead is nm-initrd-generator.
Also, on Fedora the ibft was disabled and probably on most other
distributions as well. This was only used on RHEL.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371201#c7
When the code that generates "config-extra.h" changes, we want to regenerate
the file. Move that code to a separate makefile so we can add a
dependency.
Otherwise, we'd had to depend on "Makefile", which itself is generated by
Makefile.am.
Also, depend on "config.h" to regenerate it when ./configure runs and
touches that header. This may not cover all cases where ./configure's
configuration changes and a regeneration would be due. But such is life.
Also, most components depend on this header, so let various .dirstamp
files depend on it, so we are sure to build this first. That because,
autotools generates dependencies for header files automatically, but
that requires that the header file exist. Such automatic dependencies
don't work out-of-the-box for generated headers.
Co-authored-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
"config-extra.h" is really just like "config.h", except it works around some
limitations of autoconf.
If we depend on "Makefile", any changes to "Makefile.am" will cause a full
rebuild. We want to avoid that.
Instead, depend on "config.h". That one only changes when configure runs
again. And that's the better dependancy, because "config-extra.h" is
generated based on informations generated by configure (despite being
generated by "Makefile").
Not touching "config-extra.h" means that the target is rebuild every
time (because the timestampt does not get updated). On the other hand,
touching it will cause a full rebuild (which we often want to avoid).
The right solution is instead to depend on "config.h", which will be
done next.
This reverts commit 14271d84a0.
This code is now unused.
Also, it does not seem state of the art to me
anymore.
Drop it, it could always be resurrected if need by, but maybe
GFileMonitor could be used instead.
Before commit e3ac45c026 the reader set the private key in the
setting using the libnm function, which also set the key as client
certificate if it was in PKCS #12 format.
After the commit, existing connections with a PKCS #12 private key but
without a client certificate became invalid. Restore the old behavior.
Fixes: e3ac45c026 ('ifcfg-rh: don't use 802-1x certifcate setter functions')
We don't need it anymore.
Still, for tests let gdbus-codegen run and generate the sources and
compile them. We want to keep "dispatcher/nm-dispatcher.xml" and ensure
that it is still valid.
Glib has GValue which used for boxing value.
Add NMValueType enum, which has a similar purpose, but it's much more
limited.
- contrary to GValue, the type must be tracked separately from the
user-data. That is, the "user-data" is only a pointer of appropriate
type, and the knowledge of the actual NMValueType is kept separately.
This will be used to have a static list of meta-data that knows the
value types, but keeping the values independent of this type
information. With GValue this would not be possible.
- the use case is much more limited. Just support basic integers,
boolean and strings. Nothing fancy.
Note that we already do something similar at muliple places. See for
example NMVariantAttributeSpec and nm_utils_team_link_watcher_to_string().
These could/should instead use NMValueType.
When we link static libraries together, there must be no duplicate
symbols.
Since we have a lot of static/intermediate libraries, getting this right
is complicated and sometimes leads to ugly solutions.
As a new rule: don't let static libraries link with other static
libraries. Only binaries and libnm/libnm.la should explicitly link
with all the static libraries that they require.
There are exceptions: "src/libNetworkManager.la" and "libnm/liblibnm.la".
These are static, internal libraries, but they are basically *everything*
that ends up in "src/NetworkManager" and "libnm/libnm.la", respecitively.
Hence, these static libraries also link against other static libraries.
Another exception to this rule is "src/libNetworkManagerTest.la", for
similar reasons.
We compile src/main.c as part of src/NetworkManager. Explicitly link with
glib, because that is required by the source code. Apparently, it also
works without this, but still do it for correctness.
We have "src/libNetworkManager.la" which is an intermediate static
library containing everything that ends up in "src/NetworkManager".
Likewise, add "libnm/liblibnm.la" to be the static library that contains
everything from "libnm/libnm.la".
The point of these libraries is to tie everything together that is used
by "src/NetworkManager" and "libnm/libnm.la" so that it also can be used
by unit-tests. Thereby, the unit tests will link statically against the
code of libnm. The problem is that the unit tests also want to access
internal functionality of libnm that is not accessible when dynamically
linking.
In part, this new library replaces "libnm/libnm-utils.la". The previous
name was confusing, because to us everything is an "utils", and it's
unclear what the purpose of that library was. Now the purpose should be
a bit clearer: liblibnm.la is a step before libnm.la, similar to what
libNetworkManager.la is to NetworkManager.
We already have "libnm-core/tests/test-keyfile.c" from which we build
"test-keyfile".
Our test binaries should be named the following:
- "*/tests/test-*"
- the test binary "*/tests/test-*" should be build from a source file
"*/tests/test-*.c". Meaning: the source's and executable's name should
correspond.
- test binaries should be named uniquely. Also, because older meson
versions don't like having the same binary name more than once.
Rename to avoid the duplicate name.
Older versions of meson don't like building multiple artifacts
with the same name (even if they are in different directories). We
have multiple tests called "test-general.c", and it would be natural
to compile a test binary of the same name.
Meson encountered an error in file src/tests/meson.build, line 14, column 2:
Tried to create target "test-general", but a target of that name already exists.
It's generally a bad idea to have in our source tree multiple files with the
same name. Rename the test.
Fixes: 16cd84d346 ('build/meson: rename platform tests to use same name as autotools'):
make[3]: Entering directory 'NetworkManager/_build/sub'
CC clients/cli/nmcli-common.o
cc1: error: ./clients/common: No such file or directory [-Werror=missing-include-dirs]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
The only generated header in $builddir/clients/common is settings-docs.h
and only libnmc.la needs it. Include the directory on the command line
only when we know it exists.
The dispatcher looks there for scripts now. This actually doesn't break
the RPM build, since it doesn't mind extra empty directories in
buildroot. Good.
These tests cannot (easily) be under "shared/nm-libnm-core-aux/tests"
because libnm/libnm-core requires code under shared while
"nm-libnm-core-aux" requires libnm/libnm-core. With autotools that is
not problem, but with meson we include sub directories in a particular
order and there is no way to foward declare stuff (AFAIK). To avoid
the circular dependency, add the tests to "clients/common/tests", which
is always built last.
"libnm-core" implements common functionality for "NetworkManager" and
"libnm".
Note that clients like "nmcli" cannot access the internal API provided
by "libnm-core". So, if nmcli wants to do something that is also done by
"libnm-core", , "libnm", or "NetworkManager", the code would have to be
duplicated.
Instead, such code can be in "libnm-libnm-core-{intern|aux}.la".
Note that:
0) "libnm-libnm-core-intern.la" is used by libnm-core itsself.
On the other hand, "libnm-libnm-core-aux.la" is not used by
libnm-core, but provides utilities on top of it.
1) they both extend "libnm-core" with utlities that are not public
API of libnm itself. Maybe part of the code should one day become
public API of libnm. On the other hand, this is code for which
we may not want to commit to a stable interface or which we
don't want to provide as part of the API.
2) "libnm-libnm-core-intern.la" is statically linked by "libnm-core"
and thus directly available to "libnm" and "NetworkManager".
On the other hand, "libnm-libnm-core-aux.la" may be used by "libnm"
and "NetworkManager".
Both libraries may be statically linked by libnm clients (like
nmcli).
3) it must only use glib, libnm-glib-aux.la, and the public API
of libnm-core.
This is important: it must not use "libnm-core/nm-core-internal.h"
nor "libnm-core/nm-utils-private.h" so the static library is usable
by nmcli which couldn't access these.
Note that "shared/nm-meta-setting.c" is an entirely different case,
because it behaves differently depending on whether linking against
"libnm-core" or the client programs. As such, this file must be compiled
twice.
From the files under "shared/nm-utils" we build an internal library
that provides glib-based helper utilities.
Move the files of that basic library to a new subdirectory
"shared/nm-glib-aux" and rename the helper library "libnm-core-base.la"
to "libnm-glib-aux.la".
Reasons:
- the name "utils" is overused in our code-base. Everything's an
"utils". Give this thing a more distinct name.
- there were additional files under "shared/nm-utils", which are not
part of this internal library "libnm-utils-base.la". All the files
that are part of this library should be together in the same
directory, but files that are not, should not be there.
- the new name should better convey what this library is and what is isn't:
it's a set of utilities and helper functions that extend glib with
funcitonality that we commonly need.
There are still some files left under "shared/nm-utils". They have less
a unifying propose to be in their own directory, so I leave them there
for now. But at least they are separate from "shared/nm-glib-aux",
which has a very clear purpose.
We built (among others) two libraries from the sources in "shared/nm-utils":
"libnm-utils-base.la" and "libnm-utils-udev.la".
It's confusing. Instead use directories so there is a direct
correspondence between these internal libraries and the source files.
"shared/nm-utils" contains general purpose utility functions that only
depend on glib (and extend glib with some helper functions).
We will also add code that does not use glib, hence it would be good
if the part of "shared/nm-utils" that does not depend on glib, could be
used by these future projects.
Also, we use the term "utils" everywhere. While that covers the purpose
and content well, having everything called "nm-something-utils" is not
great. Instead, call this "nm-std-aux", inspired by "c-util/c-stdaux".
This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
- use cleanup macros everywhere.
- In particular use nm_auto_clear_variant_builder to free the
GVariantBuilder in the error cases. Note that the error cases
anyway are asserted against, so during a normal test run there
was no leak. But we should not write software like that.
- use nm_utils_strsplit_set_with_empty() instead of g_strsplit_set().
We should use our variant also in unit-tests, because that way the
function gets more test coverage. And it likely performs better
anyway.
When nmcli needs secrets for a connection it asks them for every known
setting. nmtui is a bit smarter and asks them only for settings that
actually exist in the connection. Make a step further and let clients
ask secrets only for setting that exist *and* have any secret
property. This decreases the number of D-Bus calls when editing or
showing a connection with secrets.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506536https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/327
initscripts support rule-* and rule6-* files for that.
Up until now, we ignored these files for the most part, except if
a user configured such files, the profile could not contain any static
routes (or specify a route-table setting). This also worked together
with the dispatcher script "examples/dispatcher/10-ifcfg-rh-routes.sh".
We cannot now start taking over that file format for rules. It might
break existing setups, because we can never fully understand all rules as
they are understood by iproute2. Also, if a user has a rule/rule6 file and
uses NetworkManager successfully today, then clearly there is a script
in place to make that work. We must not break that when adding rules
support.
Hence, store routing rules as numbered "ROUTING_RULE_#" and
"ROUTING_RULE6_#" keys.
Note that we use different keys for IPv4 and IPv6. The main reason is
that the string format is mostly compatible with iproute2. That means,
you can take the value and pass it to `ip rule add`.
However, `ip rule add` only accepts IPv4 rules. For IPv6 rules, the user
needs to call `ip -6 rule add`. If we would use the same key for IPv4
and IPv6, then it would be hard to write a script to do this.
Also, nm_ip_routing_rule_from_string() does take the address family as
hint in this case. This makes
ROUTING_RULE_1="pref 1"
ROUTING_RULE6_1="pref 1"
automatically determine that address families. Otherwise, such
abbreviated forms would be not valid.
We have code in "shared/nm-utils" which are general purpose
helpers, independent of "libnm", "libnm-core", "clients" and "src".
We have shared code like "shared/nm-ethtool-utils.h" and
"shared/nm-meta-setting.h", which is statically linked, shared
code that contains libnm related helpers. But these helpers already
have a specific use (e.g. they are related to ethtool or NMSetting
metadata).
Add a general purpose helper that:
- depends (and extends) libnm-core
- contains unrelated helpers
- can be shared (meaning it will be statically linked).
- this code can be used by any library user of "libnm.so"
(nmcli, nm-applet) and by "libnm-core" itself. Thus, "src/"
and "libnm/" may also use this code indirectly, via "libnm-core/".
This removes libnm-glib, libnm-glib-vpn, and libnm-util for good.
The it has been replaced with libnm since NetworkManager 1.0, disabled
by default since 1.12 and no up-to-date distributions ship it for years
now.
Removing the libraries allows us to:
* Remove the horrible hacks that were in place to deal with accidental use
of both the new and old library in a single process.
* Relief the translators of maintenance burden of similar yet different
strings.
* Get rid of known bad code without chances of ever getting fixed
(libnm-glib/nm-object.c and libnm-glib/nm-object-cache.c)
* Generally lower the footprint of the releases and our workspace
If there are some really really legacy users; they can just build
libnm-glib and friends from the NetworkManager-1.16 distribution. The
D-Bus API is stable and old libnm-glib will keep working forever.
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/308
Routing rules are unlike addresses or routes not tied to an interface.
NetworkManager thinks in terms of connection profiles. That works well
for addresses and routes, as one profile configures addresses and routes
for one device. For example, when activating a profile on a device, the
configuration does not interfere with the addresses/routes of other
devices. That is not the case for routing rules, which are global, netns-wide
entities.
When one connection profile specifies rules, then this per-device configuration
must be merged with the global configuration. And when a device disconnects later,
the rules must be removed.
Add a new NMPRulesManager API to track/untrack routing rules. Devices can
register/add there the routing rules they require. And the sync method will
apply the configuration. This is be implemented on top of NMPlatform's
caching API.
CC clients/nm_online-nm-online.o
In file included from ./shared/nm-default.h:311:0,
from clients/nm-online.c:34:
./libnm/NetworkManager.h:60:10: fatal error: nm-enum-types.h: No such file or directory
#include "nm-enum-types.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For now only add the core settings, no peers' data.
To support peers and the allowed-ips of the peers is more complicated
and will be done later. It's more complicated because these are nested
lists (allowed-ips) inside a list (peers). That is quite unusual and to
conveniently support that in D-Bus API, in keyfile format, in libnm,
and nmcli, is a effort.
Also, it's further complicated by the fact that each peer has a secret (the
preshared-key). Thus we probably need secret flags for each peer, which
is a novelty as well (until now we require a fixed set of secrets per
profile that is well known).
We named the types inconsistently:
- "p2p-wireless" ("libnm-core/nm-setting-p2p-wireless.h")
- "p2p" ("libnm/nm-p2p-peer.h")
- "p2p-wifi" ("src/devices/wifi/nm-device-p2p-wifi.h")
It seems to me, "libnm/nm-p2p-peer.h" should be qualified with a "Wi-Fi"
specific name. It's not just peer-to-peer, it's Wi-Fi P2P.
Yes, there is an inconsistency now, because there is already
"libnm/nm-access-point.h".
It seems to me (from looking at the internet), that the name "Wi-Fi P2P"
is more common than "P2P Wi-Fi" -- although both are used. There is also
the name "Wi-Fi Direct". But it's not clear which name should be
preferred here, so stick to "Wi-Fi P2P".
In this first commit only rename the files. The following commit will
rename the content.
It's not yet used, but it will be. We will need nm_sd_utils_unbase64mem()
to strictly validate WireGuard settings, which contain keys in base64 encoding.
Note that we also need a stub implementation for logging. This will do
nothing for all logging from "libnm-systemd-shared.a". This makes
sense because "libnm.so" as a library should not log directly. Also,
"libnm.so" will only use a small portion of "libnm-systemd-shared.a" which
doesn't log anything. Thus this code is unused and dropped by the linker
with "--gc-sections".
For better or worse, we already pull in large parts of systemd sources.
I need a base64 decode implementation (because glib's g_base64_decode()
cannot reject invalid encodings). Instead of coming up with my own or
copy-paste if from somewhere, reuse systemd's unbase64mem().
But for that, make systemd's basic bits an independent static library
first because I will need it in libnm-core.
This doesn't really change anything except making "libnm-systemd-core.la"
an indpendent static library that could be used from "libnm-core". We
shall still be mindful about which internal code of systemd we use, and only
access functionality that is exposed via "systemd/nm-sd-utils-shared.h".
We already import systemd code which is C11. To get this even
to build, we need workaround like patching import of <uchar.h>.
Also, the libraries from c-util and nettools are C11. We cannot even
compile them in C99 mode (and didn't do that either).
It's time to bump the version. We need C11 from now on (or better: gcc's
dialect of it).
Also, note that since nettools/nacd is not optional, we could not even
build NetworkManager without a C11 compiler. So, just use it everywhere.
In core ("src/"), we use "nm-logging.h" for all logging. This dispatches
for logging to syslog, glog or systemd-journald.
If we want to log from a shared component under "shared/", we need to
use a common logging function. Add "nm-utils/nm-logging-fwd.h" for
forward declaring the used logging mechaism.
The shared library will still need to link with "src/nm-logging.c"
or an alternative implementation, depending on whether it is used
inside core or not.
This will be our extension on top of <errno.h>.
We want to use (integer) error numbers, that can both
contain native errors from <errno.h> and our own defines,
both merge in one domain. That is, we will reserve a small
range of integers for our own defines (that hopefully won't
clash with errors from <errno.h>).
We can use this at places where GError is too cumbersome to use.
The advantage is, that our error numbers extend <errno.h> and can
be mixed.
This is what "src/platform/nm-netlink.h" already does with nl_errno(). Next,
the netlink errors from there will be merged into "nm-errno.h".
Also, platform has NMPlatformError, which are a distinct set of error
numbers. But these work differently in the sense that negative values
represent codes from <errno.h> and positive numbers are our own platform
specific defines. NMPlatformError will also be merged into "nm-errno.h".
"nm-errno.h" will unify the error handling of platform and netlink,
making it more similar to what we are used to from systemd, and give
room to extend it for our own purpose.
For P2P connections it makes sense to bind the connection to the status
of the operation that is being done. One example is that a wifi display
(miracast) P2P connection should be shut down when streaming fails for
some reason.
This new helper class allows binding a connection to the presence of a
DBus path meaning that it will be torn down if the process disappears.
