This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the
pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing
ownership of a memory area between pointers.
This takes inspiration from Rust:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take
and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi).
It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it.
Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps
readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
busctl is not part of libsystemd, and should not be stored under libsystemd.
In particular this is confusing because busctl is linked with libshared, but
stuff in libsystemd is not supposed to depend on libshared.
2017-04-04 20:36:09 -04:00
Renamed from src/libsystemd/sd-bus/busctl-introspect.c (Browse further)
Lennart Poettering