I am really not a fan of full code lines passed to macros as parameters.
Let's get rid of the 3rd parameter of FOREACH_OPTION() hence:
1. Let's return errors just as a regular value (though a negative one),
that can be handled via a OPTION_ERROR case statement for the switch.
This normalizes handling of the error, just like any other event
returned by the option parser.
2. In order to avoid exploding the amount of boilerplate in each use
(that just propagates the error on OPTION_ERROR), let's then
introduce an explicit FOREACH_OPTION_OR_RETURN(), that returns from
the calling function on its own (and makes that clear in the name).
Together this cleans up, normalizes the logic and shortens the code.
It was requested to make the 'c', 'opt', and 'arg' params the same, i.e.
defined through the FOREACH_OPTION macro. But we can't do that easily,
because 'c' was defined in the for loop definition, and we can only
define variables of the same type in that way. Also, in some cases we
need only 'c', in other cases with need 'c' and 'arg, in some cases 'c'
and 'opt', and in other cases all three. We'd need to either
conditionalize or mark those variables with _unused_ to deal with
compiler warnings. But a different approach works quite nicely: add
state.opt and state.arg to show the current option and it's argument.
(The short names are picked on purpose to reduce verbosity since those
are used a lot.)
We generally want to print an error message if table_print()
fails. Add a helper function for this and use it consistently.
This does one of the three things depending on the call site:
- a no-change reformatting of the code
- change from a custom message to the generic one
- addition of the error message where previously none was printed
In the third case, the actual use impact is very small, since the
table formatting is very unlikely to fail. But if it did, we would
often return an error without any message whatsoever, which we
never want to do.
Almost all callers of table_print() specify stdout or NULL (equivalent
to stdout) as the output stream. Simplify things by not requiring the
the stream to be specified.
In almost all cases, the printing of the table is surrounded by normal
printfs() that don't do explicit flushing and for which we don't check
the output stream status. Let's simplify most callers and skip this
step. The reason is not so much to avoid the extra step itself, but
instead to avoid the _handling_ of the potential failure. We generally
only want to print an error message for ENOMEM and other "internal"
errors, so strictly speaking we should filter out the errors from the
stream. By skipping the flush&check step we implicitly do this.
After writing the code to parse options in a bunch of places, I think
passing the argc+argv to various functions to query state is annoying.
It seems nicer to just stash them in the state struct once.
If we remove "--" from argv, the argc parameter stops being valid. But
that state is effectively global, albeit readonly, and somebody looking
at argv+argc after that will see an inconsistent state. Let's behave
like the libc parsing code and instead just shuffle things around in
argv, so that the argv+argc pair remains consistent.
This allows the code to calculate how many options are remaining to
be simplified.
Let's move some logic from _DEFINE_MAIN_FUNCTION() and other places
in main-func.h into functions that we implement in main-func.c to
allow moving some included headers from the header to the .c file.
Now that the necessary functions from log.h have been moved to macro.h,
we can stop including log.h in macro.h. This requires modifying source
files all over the tree to include log.h instead.
Follow-ups for 72586a971b.
- drop 'Options' sections,
- drop underlining for link,
- fix indentation.
Prompted by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/36850#discussion_r2020594171
> the underline stuff we only use for long --help texts that have sections,
> for the section headers. systemctl --help does that for example. This one
> here is not that long, hence doesn't really need section headers, and
> hence no underlining. The clickable links don't need to be explicitly
> underlined, the terminal emulators that supper hyperlinks will underline
> them on their own (for example gnome-terminal uses a dotted line).
Addresses https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/36873#discussion_r2017578611
This allows checking from shell scripts whether the system is in a low
battery state. It just exposed the code we anyway have in a directly
accessible way.
This is also very useful for testing things.
No code change, just some splitting out of the relevant code from
udev-util.[ch].
This makes sense on its own, but is also prepartion to move the code
that checks for low battery state into battery-util.[ch], too.
In general we almost never hit those asserts in production code, so users see
them very rarely, if ever. But either way, we just need something that users
can pass to the developers.
We have quite a few of those asserts, and some have fairly nice messages, but
many are like "WTF?" or "???" or "unexpected something". The error that is
printed includes the file location, and function name. In almost all functions
there's at most one assert, so the function name alone is enough to identify
the failure for a developer. So we don't get much extra from the message, and
we might just as well drop them.
Dropping them makes our code a tiny bit smaller, and most importantly, improves
development experience by making it easy to insert such an assert in the code
without thinking how to phrase the argument.
I think this formatting was originally used because it simplified
adding new options to the help messages. However, these days, most
tools their help message end with "\nSee the %s for details.\n" so
the final line almost never has to be edited which eliminates the
benefit of the custom formatting used for printf() help messages.
Let's make things more consistent and use the same formatting for
printf() help messages that we use everywhere else.
Prompted by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18355#discussion_r567241580
Ideally, coccinelle would strip unnecessary braces too. But I do not see any
option in coccinelle for this, so instead, I edited the patch text using
search&replace to remove the braces. Unfortunately this is not fully automatic,
in particular it didn't deal well with if-else-if-else blocks and ifdefs, so
there is an increased likelikehood be some bugs in such spots.
I also removed part of the patch that coccinelle generated for udev, where we
returns -1 for failure. This should be fixed independently.
This way, we can extend the macro a bit with stuff pulled in from other
headers without this affecting everything which pulls in macro.h, which
is one of our most basic headers.
This is just refactoring, no change in behaviour, in prepartion for
later changes.
I decided to use a separate definition for this because it's too easy to return
positive from functions which don't need this distinction and only return
negative on error and success otherwise.
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.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
As a followup to 086891e5c1 "log: add an "error" parameter to all
low-level logging calls and intrdouce log_error_errno() as log calls
that take error numbers", use sed to convert the simple cases to use
the new macros:
find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs sed -r -i -e \
's/log_(debug|info|notice|warning|error|emergency)\("(.*)%s"(.*), strerror\(-([a-zA-Z_]+)\)\);/log_\1_errno(-\4, "\2%m"\3);/'
Multi-line log_*() invocations are not covered.
And we also should add log_unit_*_errno().
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering
Daan De Meyer
Yu Watanabe
ZIHCO
Mike Yuan
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Daniel Mack
Michal Schmidt
Kay Sievers