The "shared" directory contains files that are possibly used by all components
of NetworkManager repository.
Some of these files are even copied as-is to other projects (VPN plugins, nm-applet)
and used there without modification. Move those files to a separate directory.
By moving them to a common directory, it is clearer that they belong
together. Also, you can easier compare the copied versions to their
original via
$ diff -r ./shared/nm-utils/ /path/to/nm-vpn-plugin/shared/nm-utils/
To allow for trailing whitespace, we don't need to copy and trunacate
the input string. g_ascii_strtoll() conveniently returns the location via
the endptr argument.
NM_UTILS_ERROR is our way to say, that we don't care about
the GError domain and code. nmcli sometimes passes domain "1"
and code "0" to g_set_error(), which could be considered
a bug.
We usually don't care about the error but only about the error
message, so let's have a universally available error quark around.
_nm_utils_ascii_str_to_int64() was declared in libnm-core's internal
header "nm-core-internal.h" and thus available for libnm-core, libnm,
NetworkManager and related.
It also means, the function was not available in libnm-util, libnm-glib,
clients or dispatcher. So, we either reimplemented it (nmc_string_to_int_base)
or struggle with the awkward strtol* API.