deal with servers with different set::allowed-channelchars settings:
* We reject the link if set::allowed-channelchars settings differ between
UnrealIRCd 5 servers.
* For the case where you have a mixed network consisting of UnrealIRCd 4.x
and UnrealIRCd 5.x servers we try not to desync, BUT will not allow
anyone to join the invalid channels locally. For IRCOps a message is
printed with additional information on such a failed JOIN attempt.
See https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Set_block#set::allowed-channelchars
for the different settings, which are best and U4<->U5 advice.
CAN_SEND_TO_USER rather than HOOKTYPE_PRE_USERMSG (which is now removed).
As for the numeric change: this makes it much easier for client devs.
You rarely need to differentiate in the client code between the various
causes. One only cares about detecting that the message was not sent and
that the user needs to be informed.
This replaces various NOTICEs, ERR_NOCTCP, ERR_NONONREG etc. with just the
new numeric 531, which is taken from InspIRCd. The syntax is:
:server 531 yourname targetname :reason for the block
This makes it similar to numeric 404 (ERR_CANNOTSENDTOCHAN) that is used to
indicate that a channel message was blocked.
For module devs, the new hook CAN_SEND_TO_USER prototype is:
int hooktype_can_send_to_user(Client *client, Client *target, char **text, char **errmsg, int notice);
You can replace the text via this, by setting *text in your function.
You can block the message, by returning HOOK_DENY. If doing so, then
you must also set *errmsg to an appropriate value.
Do not send any error message to the user! UnrealIRCd will take care of
sending the error message for you, if you set *errmsg.
Only if you need something special you could violate this rule, but
preferably not!
As you can see, CAN_SEND_TO_USER works just like CAN_SEND_TO_CHANNEL.
This so I - and others - don't constantly have to wonder whether the client
is called sptr, cptr or acptr in a simple routine.
Insane --> 212 files changed, 6814 insertions(+), 6945 deletions(-)
Couldn't just mass-replace of course since there are places where there
are multiple clients involved. So had to check each function.
Also renamed some 'acptr' to 'target' and such.
I will write a page with new style rules later.. but in short if there is
only 1 client involved it will now be called 'client'.
code changes in UnrealIRCd itself:
1) Clients are no longer freed directly by exit_client. Most fields
are freed, but 'sptr' itself is not, so you can use IsDead() on it.
2) exit_client now returns void rather than int
3) ALL command functions return void rather than int.
Of course this also affects do_cmd, command overrides, etc.
This is a direct consequence of the removal of 'cptr' earlier, as that
was used to signal certain things that are now no longer possible
(and it raises the question if things were always correctly signaled
in the first place, so may fix some bugs).
It also makes the code more resillient against cases where you forgot
to check if the client was freed. Still, you are encouraged to do an
IsDead(sptr) if you are calling functions that may kill clients,
such as command functions or things that may use spamfilter.
More changes will follow, such as the removal of FLUSH_BUFFER.
MOD_UNLOAD. And MOD_HEADER(xyz) is now MOD_HEADER even without ()
since this isn't a function, really.
To make things understandable I added the following to the
developer section of the release notes:
* The module header is now as follows:
ModuleHeader MOD_HEADER
= {
"nameofmodule",
"5.0",
"Some description",
"Name of Author",
"unrealircd-5",
};
There's a new author field, the version must start with a digit,
and also the name of the module must match the loadmodule name.
So for example third/funmod must also be named third/funmod.
* The MOD_TEST, MOD_INIT, MOD_LOAD and MOD_UNLOAD functions no longer
take a name argument. So: MOD_INIT(mymod) is now MOD_INIT()
This so we have a few simple concepts:
Client: this can be a user, server, or something unknown yet
Then the type of clients:
User: this is a user, someone with a nick name.
Server: this is a server
Etc.
aChannel to Channel, and some more. Third party module coders will
love this. But.. it makes things more logical and the doxygen output
will look more clean and logical as well.
(More changes will follow)
and remove old dependency field (never used, was always NULL,
broken since 3.2.x)
I'll add some constraints later on things like names and versions.
IOTW: more changes to follow, don't mass update your own mods yet.
So rename src/modules/m_*.c to src/modules/*.c and update makefiles
and modules.default.conf. Also remove m_ at various places in the
source files, but not the CMD_FUNC(), just the module name.
Bram Matthys