Re: [PATCH 2/9] lib/config: canonicalize paths relative to $HOME.

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] lib/config: canonicalize paths relative to $HOME.

Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 15:28:56 +0300

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: David Bremner

From: Tomi Ollila


On Fri, May 07 2021, David Bremner wrote:

> Prior to 0.32, notmuch had the (undocumented) behaviour that it
> expanded a relative value of database.path with respect to $HOME. In
> 0.32 this was special cased for database.path but broken for
> database.mail_root, which causes problems for at least notmuch-new
> when database.path is set to a relative path.
>
> The change in T030-config.sh reflects a user visible, but hopefully
> harmless behaviour change; the expanded form of the paths will now be
> printed by notmuch config.
> ---
>  lib/config.cc       | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  test/T030-config.sh |  6 +++---
>  test/T050-new.sh    |  1 -
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/config.cc b/lib/config.cc
> index 50bcf6a2..e08c6bf7 100644
> --- a/lib/config.cc
> +++ b/lib/config.cc
> @@ -387,6 +387,23 @@ notmuch_config_pairs_destroy (notmuch_config_pairs_t *pairs)
>      talloc_free (pairs);
>  }
>  
> +static char *
> +_expand_path (void *ctx, const char *key, const char *val)
> +{
> +    char *expanded_val;
> +
> +    if ((strcmp (key, "database.path") == 0 ||
> +	 strcmp (key, "database.mail_root") == 0 ||
> +	 strcmp (key, "database.hook_dir") == 0 ||
> +	 strcmp (key, "database.backup_path") == 0 ) &&
> +	val[0] != '/')

check val[0] first then one does not need to waste time scanning
through all the other possible values for 'key'. that is trivial
"optimization", other possible but not worth the effort...

> +	expanded_val = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s/%s", getenv("HOME"), val);
> +    else
> +	expanded_val = talloc_strdup (ctx, val);
> +
> +    return expanded_val;
> +}
> +
>  notmuch_status_t
>  _notmuch_config_load_from_file (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>  				GKeyFile *file)
> @@ -407,14 +424,17 @@ _notmuch_config_load_from_file (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>  	keys = g_key_file_get_keys (file, *grp, NULL, NULL);
>  	for (gchar **keys_p = keys; *keys_p; keys_p++) {
>  	    char *absolute_key = talloc_asprintf (notmuch, "%s.%s", *grp,  *keys_p);
> +	    char *normalized_val;
>  	    val = g_key_file_get_value (file, *grp, *keys_p, NULL);
>  	    if (! val) {
>  		status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR;
>  		goto DONE;
>  	    }
> -	    _notmuch_string_map_set (notmuch->config, absolute_key, val);
> +	    normalized_val = _expand_path (notmuch, absolute_key, val);
> +	    _notmuch_string_map_set (notmuch->config, absolute_key, normalized_val);
>  	    g_free (val);
>  	    talloc_free (absolute_key);
> +	    talloc_free (normalized_val);
>  	    if (status)
>  		goto DONE;
>  	}
> diff --git a/test/T030-config.sh b/test/T030-config.sh
> index b22d8f29..7a1660e9 100755
> --- a/test/T030-config.sh
> +++ b/test/T030-config.sh
> @@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ test_expect_equal "$(notmuch config get database.path)" \
>  
>  ln -s `pwd`/mail home/Maildir
>  add_email_corpus
> -test_begin_subtest "Relative database path expanded in open"
> +test_begin_subtest "Relative database path expanded"
>  notmuch config set database.path Maildir
> -path=$(notmuch config get database.path)
> +path=$(notmuch config get database.path | notmuch_dir_sanitize)
>  count=$(notmuch count '*')
>  test_expect_equal "${path} ${count}" \
> -		  "Maildir 52"
> +		  "CWD/home/Maildir 52"
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "Add config to database"
>  notmuch new
> diff --git a/test/T050-new.sh b/test/T050-new.sh
> index 5faf6839..33ad7f5a 100755
> --- a/test/T050-new.sh
> +++ b/test/T050-new.sh
> @@ -395,7 +395,6 @@ EOF
>  test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "Relative database path expanded in new"
> -test_subtest_known_broken
>  ln -s `pwd`/mail home/Maildir
>  notmuch config set database.path Maildir
>  generate_message
> -- 
> 2.30.2
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