From: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adi@adirat.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:54:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: notmuch-config: replace config reading function
X-Git-Tag: 0.24_rc0~57
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2a038825b73d4b9fa6cfd3ecbe661f1e6a49840;hp=f2a038825b73d4b9fa6cfd3ecbe661f1e6a49840;p=notmuch

notmuch-config: replace config reading function

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>
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