annotate libpurple/stringref.h @ 29475:6d2ba42595fe

oscar: Fix a race condition that leads to a crash. With SSL enabled, if we start connecting and something calls purple_account_disconnect between when an SSL flap connection is started and when the connection is actually established, it isn't properly cleaned up (and we try to close the flap), which leads to free-after-use. You can simulate this by adding a timeout-triggered disconnect to the end of oscar_connect_to_bos. [02/22/10 17:11:51] <libpurple/oscar> Destroying oscar connection of type 0x0002. Disconnect reason is 0 [02/22/10 17:11:51] <libpurple/oscar> Disconnected. Code is 0x0000 and msg is (hiicq:17126): GLib-WARNING **: giounix.c:400Error while getting flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9) [02/22/10 17:11:51] <libpurple/oscar> Scheduling destruction of FLAP connection of type 0x0002 [02/22/10 17:11:51] <libpurple/oscar> Signed off. ... [02/22/10 17:11:51] <libpurple/oscar> Destroying oscar connection of type 0x7261. Disconnect reason is 1668179315

/* TODO: Can we just replace this whole thing with a GCache */

/**
 * @file stringref.h Reference-counted immutable strings
 * @ingroup core
 */

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#ifndef _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_
#define _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

typedef struct _PurpleStringref PurpleStringref;

/**
 * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object.  The newly
 * created object will have a reference count of 1.
 *
 * @param value This will be the value of the string; it will be
 *              duplicated.
 *
 * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount
 *         of 1.
 */
PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_new(const char *value);

/**
 * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object.  The newly
 * created object will have a reference count of zero, and if it is
 * not referenced before the next iteration of the mainloop it will
 * be freed at that time.
 *
 * @param value This will be the value of the string; it will be
 *              duplicated.
 *
 * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount
 *         of zero.
 */
PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_new_noref(const char *value);

/**
 * Creates an immutable reference-counted string object from a printf
 * format specification and arguments.  The created object will have a
 * reference count of 1.
 *
 * @param format A printf-style format specification.
 *
 * @return A newly allocated string reference object with a refcount
 *         of 1.
 */
PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_printf(const char *format, ...);

/**
 * Increase the reference count of the given stringref.
 *
 * @param stringref String to be referenced.
 *
 * @return A pointer to the referenced string.
 */
PurpleStringref *purple_stringref_ref(PurpleStringref *stringref);

/**
 * Decrease the reference count of the given stringref.  If this
 * reference count reaches zero, the stringref will be freed; thus
 * you MUST NOT use this string after dereferencing it.
 *
 * @param stringref String to be dereferenced.
 */
void purple_stringref_unref(PurpleStringref *stringref);

/**
 * Retrieve the value of a stringref.
 *
 * @note This value should not be cached or stored in a local variable.
 *       While there is nothing inherently incorrect about doing so, it
 *       is easy to forget that the cached value is in fact a
 *       reference-counted object and accidentally use it after
 *       dereferencing.  This is more problematic for a reference-
 *       counted object than a heap-allocated object, as it may seem to
 *       be valid or invalid nondeterministically based on how many
 *       other references to it exist.
 *
 * @param stringref String reference from which to retrieve the value.
 *
 * @return The contents of the string reference.
 */
const char *purple_stringref_value(const PurpleStringref *stringref);

/**
 * Compare two stringrefs for string equality.  This returns the same
 * value as strcmp would, where <0 indicates that s1 is "less than" s2
 * in the ASCII lexicography, 0 indicates equality, etc.
 *
 * @param s1 The reference string.
 *
 * @param s2 The string to compare against the reference.
 *
 * @return An ordering indication on s1 and s2.
 */
int purple_stringref_cmp(const PurpleStringref *s1, const PurpleStringref *s2);

/**
 * Find the length of the string inside a stringref.
 *
 * @param stringref The string in whose length we are interested.
 *
 * @return The length of the string in stringref
 */
size_t purple_stringref_len(const PurpleStringref *stringref);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _PURPLE_STRINGREF_H_ */