format_timestamp_relative currently returns the plural form of
years and months no matter the quantity, and in many cases (for
durations > 1 week) this is the same with days.
This patch changes this so that the function takes the quantity into account,
returning "1 month 1 week ago" instead of "1 months 1 weeks ago".
We recently started making more use of malloc_usable_size() and rely on
it (see the string_erase() story). Given that we don't really support
sytems where malloc_usable_size() cannot be trusted beyond statistics
anyway, let's go fully in and rework GREEDY_REALLOC() on top of it:
instead of passing around and maintaining the currenly allocated size
everywhere, let's just derive it automatically from
malloc_usable_size().
I am mostly after this for the simplicity this brings. It also brings
minor efficiency improvements I guess, but things become so much nicer
to look at if we can avoid these allocation size variables everywhere.
Note that the malloc_usable_size() man page says relying on it wasn't
"good programming practice", but I think it does this for reasons that
don't apply here: the greedy realloc logic specifically doesn't rely on
the returned extra size, beyond the fact that it is equal or larger than
what was requested.
(This commit was supposed to be a quick patch btw, but apparently we use
the greedy realloc stuff quite a bit across the codebase, so this ends
up touching *a*lot* of code.)
With some versions of the compiler, the _cleanup_ attr makes it think
the variable might be freed/closed when uninitialized, even though it
cannot happen. The added cost is small enough to be worth the benefit,
and optimized builds will help reduce it even further.
Let's split this out into its own helper function we can reuse at
various places.
Also, let's avoid signed values where we can so that we can cover more
of the available time range.
We already handle it specially in get_timezones(), hence we should OK it
here too, even if the timezone file doesn't actually exist.
Prompted by:
https://serverfault.com/questions/991172/invalid-time-zone-utc
(Yes, Ubuntu should install the UTC timezone data unconditionally: it
should not be an option, even if all other timezone data is excluded,
but since it's our business to validate user input but not out business
to validate distros, let's just accept "UTC" unconditionally, it's magic
after all)
Instead of checking for the STA_UNSYNC flag in the timex status, check
the maximum error. It is updated by the kernel, increasing at a rate of
500 ppm. The maximum value is 16 seconds, which triggers the STA_UNSYNC
flag.
This follows timedatex and allows timedated to correctly detect a clock
synchronized by chronyd when configured to not synchronize the RTC.
When systemd retrieve the time zone it read what is in the file
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab provided by the Time Zone Database.
According to the comments in zone.tab its content is for backward-
compatibility aid for older programs. New programs should use
zone1970.tab. This patch replaces zone.tab with zone1970.tab.
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.
"src/basic/time-util.c" is part of src/basic and should not include
"src/shared/serialize.h". It is one of the few cases where this
is done. Also, it's not even required.
All users of the macro (except for one, in serialize.c), use the macro in
connection with read_line(), so they must include fileio.h. Let's not play
libc games and require multiple header file to be included for the most common
use of a function.
The removal of def.h includes is not exact. I mostly went over the commits that
switch over to use read_line() and add def.h at the same time and reverted the
addition of def.h in those files.
Let's be more careful with what we serialize: let's ensure we never
serialize strings that are longer than LONG_LINE_MAX, so that we know we
can read them back with read_line(…, LONG_LINE_MAX, …) safely.
In order to implement this all serialization functions are move to
serialize.[ch], and internally will do line size checks. We'd rather
skip a serialization line (with a loud warning) than write an overly
long line out. Of course, this is just a second level protection, after
all the data we serialize shouldn't be this long in the first place.
While we are at it also clean up logging: while serializing make sure to
always log about errors immediately. Also, (void)ify all calls we don't
expect errors in (or catch errors as part of the general
fflush_and_check() at the end.
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.
Dan Streetman
Yu Watanabe
Anders Wenhaug
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Luca Boccassi
Susant Sahani
Miroslav Lichvar
Christopher Wong
Filipe Brandenburger
Thomas Haller