We don't always want to immediately write new connections to disk, to
facilitate "runtime" or "temporary" connections where an interface's
runtime config isn't backed by on-disk config. Also, just because
an interface's configuration is changed doesn't necessarily mean
that new configuration should be written to disk either.
Add D-Bus methods for adding new connections and for updating existing
connections that don't immediately save the connection to disk.
Also add infrastructure to indicate to plugins that the new connection
shouldn't be immediately saved if the connection was added with the
new method.
We'll need this for later with unsaved connections. The ifnet
plugin previously tracked connections by the "conn_name" which
was derived from keys in the /etc/conf.d/net file. These keys
take two forms:
1) interface name
config_eth0=(
"192.168.4.121/24"
"dhcp6"
)
2) wifi SSID, either text or hex-encoded:
config_myssid=("dhcp")
config_0xab3ace=("dhcp")
The conf.d net connection name is apparently usually an interface
name, so when writing to /etc/conf.d/net the NM connection name is
changed from eg "Ethernet connection 1" to the next available
interface name based on the type of connection, eg "eth0".
The ifnet plugin actively removed connections that were not present
in /etc/conf.d/net during the reload_connections() call, but in the
future we'll want to allow unsaved connections which in the case of
ifnet clearly won't yet be written to the file. Since only
connections written to the file have a "conn_name", tracking
connections by conn_name no longer works.
GObject creation cannot normally fail, except for types that implement
GInitable and take a GError in their _new() method. Some NM types
override constructor() and return NULL in some cases, but these
generally only happen in the case of programmer error (eg, failing to
set a mandatory property), and so crashing is reasonable (and most
likely inevitable anyway).
So, remove all NULL checks after calls to g_object_new() and its
myriad wrappers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693678
Can't leave the backup files lying around when doing 'make distcheck',
so when backup up a file, return the backup file path so that the
caller can (optionally) remove it.
If the certificate path from the supplicant config is not absolute,
we need to make it absolute. When building with a different builddir,
the certificate from the supplicant config is actually in the srcdir,
but the builddir is the current PWD.
The ctype macros (eg, isalnum(), tolower()) are locale-dependent. Use
glib's ASCII-only versions instead.
Also, replace isascii() with g_ascii_isprint(), since isascii()
accepts control characters, which isn't what the code wanted in any of
the places where it was using it.
Always removing wep_tx_keyidx will cause wpa_supplicant.conf being
written even if nothing has been changed. Now it will be removed only
when wep is not used anymore.
nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa() and nm_utils_hwaddr_aton() are like
ether_ntoa()/ether_aton(), but handle IPoIB too.
nm_utils_hwaddr_atoba() is like _aton() but returns a GByteArray,
since that's what's wanted in many places.
Also remove nm_ether_ntop() and replace uses of it with
nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa().
