This tries to address the "bind"/"unbind" uevent kernel API breakage, by
changing the semantics of device tags.
Previously, tags would be applied on uevents (and the database entries
they result in) only depending on the immediate context. This means that
if one uevent causes the tag to be set and the next to be unset, this
would immediately effect what apps would see and the database entries
would contain each time. This is problematic however, as tags are a
filtering concept, and if tags vanish then clients won't hence notice
when a device stops being relevant to them since not only the tags
disappear but immediately also the uevents for it are filtered including
the one necessary for the app to notice that the device lost its tag and
hence relevance.
With this change tags become "sticky". If a tag is applied is once
applied to a device it will stay in place forever, until the device is
removed. Tags can never be removed again. This means that an app
watching a specific set of devices by filtering for a tag is guaranteed
to not only see the events where the tag is set but also all follow-up
events where the tags might be removed again.
This change of behaviour is unfortunate, but is required due to the
kernel introducing new "bind" and "unbind" uevents that generally have
the effect that tags and properties disappear and apps hence don't
notice when a device looses relevance to it. "bind"/"unbind" events were
introduced in kernel 4.12, and are now used in more and more subsystems.
The introduction broke userspace widely, and this commit is an attempt
to provide a way for apps to deal with it.
While tags are now "sticky" a new automatic device property
CURRENT_TAGS is introduced (matching the existing TAGS property) that
always reflects the precise set of tags applied on the most recent
events. Thus, when subscribing to devices through tags, all devices that
ever had the tag put on them will be be seen, and by CURRENT_TAGS it may
be checked whether the device right at the moment matches the tag
requirements.
See: #7587#7018#8221
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Since glibc is moving away from implicitly including sys/sysmacros.h
all the time via sys/types.h, include the header directly in more
places. This seems to cover most makedev/major/minor usage.
GLIB has recently started to officially support the gcc cleanup
attribute in its public API, hence let's do the same for our APIs.
With this patch we'll define an xyz_unrefp() call for each public
xyz_unref() call, to make it easy to use inside a
__attribute__((cleanup())) expression. Then, all code is ported over to
make use of this.
The new calls are also documented in the man pages, with examples how to
use them (well, I only added docs where the _unref() call itself already
had docs, and the examples, only cover sd_bus_unrefp() and
sd_event_unrefp()).
This also renames sd_lldp_free() to sd_lldp_unref(), since that's how we
tend to call our destructors these days.
Note that this defines no public macro that wraps gcc's attribute and
makes it easier to use. While I think it's our duty in the library to
make our stuff easy to use, I figure it's not our duty to make gcc's own
features easy to use on its own. Most likely, client code which wants to
make use of this should define its own:
#define _cleanup_(function) __attribute__((cleanup(function)))
Or similar, to make the gcc feature easier to use.
Making this logic public has the benefit that we can remove three header
files whose only purpose was to define these functions internally.
See #2008.
Exported header files should not include internal headers. Fix that.
Exported header files should not use the bool type. So far we opted to
stick to C89 for exported headers, and hence use "int" for bools in
them. Continue to do so.
Exported header files should have #include lines for everything they use
including inttypes.h and sys/types.h, so that they may be included in
any order.
Exported header files should have C++ guards, hence add them.
Exported header files should not use gcc extensions like #pragma once,
get rid of it.
It is still possible to include uninitialized ones, but now that is opt-in. In most
cases people only want initialized devices. Exception is if you want to work without
udev running.
Suggested by David Herrmann.
This provides equivalent functionality to libudev-device, but in the
systemd style. The public API only caters to creating sd_device objects
from for devices that already exist in /sys, there is no support for
listening for monitoring events or creating devices received over
the udev netlink protocol.
The private API contains the necessary functionality to make sd-device
a drop-in replacement for libudev-device, but which we would not
otherwise want to export.
