Some calls to lookup_path_init() were not followed by any log emission.
E.g.:
$ SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemctl --root=/missing enable unit; echo $?
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Let's add a helper function and use it in various places.
$ SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug build/systemctl --root=/missing enable unit; echo $?
Failed to initialize unit search paths for root directory /missing: No such file or directory
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$ SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_SYSV=1 build/systemctl --root=/missing enable unit; echo $?
Failed to initialize unit search paths for root directory /missing: No such file or directory
Failed to enable: No such file or directory.
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The repeated error in the second case is not very nice, but this is a niche
case and I don't think it's worth the trouble to trying to avoid it.
Let's define two helpers strdupa_safe() + strndupa_safe() which do the
same as their non-safe counterparts, except that they abort if called
with allocations larger than ALLOCA_MAX.
This should ensure that all our alloca() based allocations are subject
to this limit.
afaics glibc offers three alloca() based APIs: alloca() itself,
strndupa() + strdupa(). With this we have now replacements for all of
them, that take the limit into account.
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.
The naming of variables is very inconsistent. I tried to use more
modern style naming (UNDERSCORED_TITLE_CASE), but I didn't change existing
names too much. Only SYSTEM_DATA_UNIT_PATH is renamed to SYSTEM_DATA_UNIT_DIR
to match SYSTEM_CONFIG_UNIT_DIR.
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.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Yu Watanabe
Anita Zhang
Luca Boccassi
Lennart Poettering
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