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 19:16:17 +0300

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: David Bremner

From: Tomi Ollila


On Fri, May 07 2021, Tomi Ollila wrote:

> 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...

Forget this suggestion; changing order makes things worse -- probably
in values of other keys than these checked don't start with '/' so
there would be one extra check in most of the cases...

Tomi


>
>> +	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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