Six years ago we declared it obsolete and removed it from the docs
(c073a0c4a5) and added a note about it in
NEWS. Two years ago we add warning messages about it, indicating the
feature will be removed (41b283d0f1) and
mentioned it in NEWS again.
Let's now kill it for good.
This is a follow-up for 9f83091e3c.
Instead of reading the mtime off the configuration files after reading,
let's do so before reading, but with the fd we read the data from. This
is not only cleaner (as it allows us to save one stat()), but also has
the benefit that we'll detect changes that happen while we read the
files.
This also reworks unit file drop-ins to use the common code for
determining drop-in mtime, instead of reading system clock for that.
An stdio FILE* stream usually refers to something with a file
descriptor, but that's just "usually". It doesn't have to, when taking
fmemopen() and similar into account. Most of our calls to fileno()
assumed the call couldn't fail. In most cases this was correct, but in
some cases where we didn't know whether we work on files or memory we'd
use the returned fd as if it was unconditionally valid while it wasn't,
and passed it to a multitude of kernel syscalls. Let's fix that, and do
something reasonably smart when encountering this case.
(Running test-fileio with this patch applied will remove tons of ioctl()
calls on -1).
If we ignore any uknown section, we will not be able to show any
warning if a typo in a section name is made. Let's reverse our
approach, and explicitly list sections to ignore instead.
I opted to make use the same section list for this, instead of adding a second
list, because this list is passed through to many functions and adding yet
another parameter to the long signature would be very noisy.
This reverts commit 8a07b4033e.
The tests are kept. test-networkd-conf is adjusted to pass.
This fixes#13276. I think current rules are extremely confusing, as the
case in test-networkd-conf shows. We apply some kinds of unescaping (relating
to quoting), but not others (related to escaping of special characters).
But fixing this is hard, because people have adjusted quoting to match
our rules, and if we make the rules "better", things might break in unexpected
places.
Urlich Windl wrote on the mailing list:
> I noticed that a line of "=======" in "[Service]" cases the message " Unknown lvalue '' in section 'Service'".
This now becomes:
/etc/systemd/system/eqeqeqeq.service:3: Missing key name before '=', ignoring line.
We generally don't treat syntax error as fatal, but in this case we would
completely refuse to load the file. I think we should treat the the same
as assignment outside of a section, or an unknown key name.
It's hard to even say what exactly this combination means. Escaping is
necessary when quoting to have quotes within the string. So the escaping of
quote characters is inherently tied to quoting. When unquoting, it seems
natural to remove escaping which was done for the quoting purposes. But with
both flags we would be expected to re-add this escaping after unqouting? Or
maybe keep the escaping which is not necessary for quoting but otherwise
present? This all seems too complicated, let's just forbid such usage and
always fully unescape when unquoting.
Whenever I see EXTRACT_QUOTES, I'm always confused whether it means to
leave the quotes in or to take them out. Let's say "unquote", like we
say "cunescape".
This works like parse_sec() but defaults to USEC_INFINITY when passed an
empty string or only whitespace.
Also introduce config_parse_sec_def_infinity, which can be used to parse
config options using this function.
This is useful for time options that use "infinity" for default and that
can be reset by unsetting them.
Introduce a test case to ensure it works as expected.
This removes the ability to configure which cgroup controllers to mount
together. Instead, we'll now hardcode that "cpu" and "cpuacct" are
mounted together as well as "net_cls" and "net_prio".
The concept of mounting controllers together has no future as it does
not exist to cgroupsv2. Moreover, the current logic is systematically
broken, as revealed by the discussions in #10507. Also, we surveyed Red
Hat customers and couldn't find a single user of the concept (which
isn't particularly surprising, as it is broken...)
This reduced the (already way too complex) cgroup handling for us, since
we now know whenever we make a change to a cgroup for one controller to
which other controllers it applies.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
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.
They are not needed, because anything that is non-zero is converted
to true.
C11:
> 6.3.1.2: When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the
> value compares equal to 0; otherwise, the result is 1.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31551888/casting-int-to-bool-in-c-c
This is mostly fall-out from d1a1f0aaf0,
however some cases are older bugs.
There might be more issues lurking, this was a simple grep for "%m"
across the tree, with all lines removed that mention "errno" at all.
Lennart Poettering