Config files are currently read using glib's g_key_file_load_from_file function which is very inconvenient because it's limited by design to read only from "regular data files" in a filesystem. Because of this limitation notmuch can't read configs from pipes, fifos, sockets, stdin, etc. Not even "notmuch --config=/dev/stdin" works: Error reading configuration file /dev/stdin: Not a regular file So replace g_key_file_load_from_file with g_key_file_load_from_data which gives us much more freedom to read configs from multiple sources. This also helps the more security sensitive users: If someone has private information in the config file, it can be encrypted on disk, then decrypted in RAM and passed through a pipe directly to notmuch without the use of intermediate plain text files. Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adi@adirat.com> --- notmuch-config.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/notmuch-config.c b/notmuch-config.c index bd52790..fe16fa3 100644 --- a/notmuch-config.c +++ b/notmuch-config.c @@ -205,32 +205,70 @@ get_username_from_passwd_file (void *ctx) static notmuch_bool_t get_config_from_file (notmuch_config_t *config, notmuch_bool_t create_new) { + #define BUF_SIZE 4096 + char *config_str = NULL; + int config_len = 0; + int config_bufsize = BUF_SIZE; + size_t len; GError *error = NULL; notmuch_bool_t ret = FALSE; - if (g_key_file_load_from_file (config->key_file, config->filename, - G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_COMMENTS, &error)) - return TRUE; - - if (error->domain == G_FILE_ERROR && error->code == G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT) { + FILE *fp = fopen(config->filename, "r"); + if (fp == NULL) { /* If create_new is true, then the caller is prepared for a * default configuration file in the case of FILE NOT FOUND. */ if (create_new) { config->is_new = TRUE; ret = TRUE; + goto out; } else { - fprintf (stderr, "Configuration file %s not found.\n" + fprintf (stderr, "Error opening config file '%s': %s\n" "Try running 'notmuch setup' to create a configuration.\n", - config->filename); + config->filename, strerror(errno)); + goto out; } - } else { - fprintf (stderr, "Error reading configuration file %s: %s\n", - config->filename, error->message); } + config_str = talloc_zero_array (config, char, config_bufsize); + if (config_str == NULL) { + fprintf (stderr, "Error reading '%s': Out of memory\n", config->filename); + goto out; + } + + while ((len = fread (config_str + config_len, 1, + config_bufsize - config_len, fp)) > 0) { + config_len += len; + if (config_len == config_bufsize) { + config_bufsize += BUF_SIZE; + config_str = talloc_realloc (config, config_str, char, config_bufsize); + if (config_str == NULL) { + fprintf (stderr, "Error reading '%s': Failed to reallocate memory\n", + config->filename); + goto out; + } + } + } + + if (ferror (fp)) { + fprintf (stderr, "Error reading '%s': I/O error\n", config->filename); + goto out; + } + + if (g_key_file_load_from_data (config->key_file, config_str, strlen(config_str), + G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_COMMENTS, &error)) { + ret = TRUE; + goto out; + } + + fprintf (stderr, "Error parsing config file '%s': %s\n", + config->filename, error->message); + g_error_free (error); +out: + fclose(fp); + if (config_str) talloc_free(config_str); return ret; } -- 2.10.2