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)
Following the changes to expose the "routing" and "search" domain concepts in networkd, actually make resolved use
them. It will now use routing domains exclusively for making DNS routing decisions, and use search domains additionally
for extending single-label names.
Let's change the return value to bool. If we encounter an error while
parsing, return "false" instead of the actual parsing error, after all
the specified hostname does not qualify for what the function is
supposed to test.
Dealing with the additional error codes was always cumbersome, and
easily misused, like for example in the DHCP code.
Let's also rename the functions from dns_name_root() to
dns_name_is_root(), to indicate that this function checks something and
returns a bool. Similar for dns_name_is_signal_label().
With this change, we add a new object to resolved, "DnsSearchDomain="
which wraps a search domain. This is then used to introduce a global
search domain list, in addition to the existing per-link search domain
list which is reword to make use of this new object too.
This is preparation for implement proper unicast DNS search domain
support.
Lennart Poettering