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'.
Merge check_init and AllowClient into one single AllowClient()
and make it use the more logic 1 and 0 return values for allow / deny.
Similarly, use logic 1 / 0 return values for verify_link.
Module coders:
HOOKTYPE_CHECK_INIT and HOOKTYPE_PRE_LOCAL_CONNECT, changed the
return value, you should now use HOOK_*, eg HOOK_DENY to stop
processing (eg client killed).
that deal with finding TKL's or spamfilters etc.
More will likely follow, to make things more logical.
Also, run_spamfilter -> match_spamfilter
place_host_ban, can_privmsg, check_dcc, find_tkline_match all impacted.
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.
** Exit this IRC client, and all the dependents (users, servers) if this is a server.
* @param sptr The client to exit.
* @param recv_mtags Message tags to use as a base (if any).
* @param comment The (s)quit message
* @returns FLUSH_BUFFER is returned if a local client disconnects,
* otherwise 0 is returned. This so it can be used from
* command functions like: return exit_client(sptr, ....);
'sptr' is sufficient and in most cases the only one you should care about.
Should you need it, you can access sptr->direction in cases where you
need the old information (usually only for some sendto_* functions
and some protoctl checks), so 'cptr' was redundant too.
[!] This change likely introduces some bugs. This was many hours of work.
I only cut some corners in 4 functions, which will be fixed at a later
stage..... yes, more major changes to come.
On the plus side, I likely fixed some bugs in the process. Situations
where cptr vs sptr usage was incorrect. Eg using cptr->name (near server)
when sptr->name should be used (the actual source server), etc....
which specifies the time in milliseconds rather than seconds. This
allows for additional precision, or at least multiple calls per second.
The minimum allowed every_msec value is 100 at this time.
The prototype is now: EventAdd(Module *module, char *name,
vFP event, void *data, long every_msec, int count);
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.
as cptr->from is NOT (necessarily) the server where cptr is connected to.
So we now call it cptr->direction since it indicates the directly connected
server (or &me)... in other words: the direction of the client path.
including things like CallCmdoverride() to CallCommandOverride().
Type changes like aTKline -> TKL and many more (in particular
aSomething to Something etc. such as aWatch to Watch) but these are
less used by 3rd party module coders.
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)
except ban in config).
If you want to play with exceptions, type /ELINE for information.
For the configuration file it is important to know that 'except tkl'
is now called 'except ban'.
Also if you do not specify an except ban::type we now default to
exempt from all regular server ban types (but not qline, spamfilters,
blacklist or throttling)
Still need to fix some FIXME/TODO items and things haven't been
fully tested yet, so server sync issues or crashes are still possible.
Release notes will be updated another day as well..
src/modules/tkl.c is the main one).
Also move DB writing/reading functions to src/misc.c so they can be
removed out of channeldb and tkldb.
Important note to current tkldb users:
Unfortunately due to the major cleanup I had to remove upgrading
for previously saved tkl db files. That seemed not worth the effort
for maybe <15 current users or so. It also makes the tkldb code
a lot more cleaner. Otherwise it would be a huge mess.
Currently a FIXME item: spamfilter support in RMTKL.
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.
explicit cast to (long long). On *NIX we could get away with
lazily assuming time_t is of the same length as long (and use %ld),
even though the specification says nothing about it.
Unfortunately on Windows things are not that simple:
'time_t' is 'long long' (64 bits) and both 'int' and 'long'
are 32 bits, even when compiling in 64 bit mode.
This problem could be 'fixed' in multiple ways:
One way would be to minimize the usage of time_t and use 'long long'
or 'uint64_t' everywhere for variables to minimize casting later.
I, however, chose to maintain 'time_t' for most of time grabbing
and time calculations (eg: delta), and do the explicit cast in
any printf-like functions that may be there.
Both solutions work. I mostly like the explicit time_t look, so one
can immediately recognize a variable relates to time.
Bram Matthys