In CI / or local testing when you run `serenity.sh tests`, the system
will boot itself in self test mode, and the test runner will be launched
by SystemServer. Previously we were setting up settings for that
environment in the `SystemServer.ini`. This makes reproducing CI
failures a bit confusing, as the system will behavior differently if you
run in self-test mode, vs running `run-tests-and-shutdown.sh` or
`run-tests` manually in a session.
This change moves the settings to `run-tests`, so no matter how you try
to run the test runner, it will always behave the same.
ConfigServer is an IPC service that provides access to application
configuration and settings. The idea is to replace all uses of
Core::ConfigFile with IPC requests to ConfigServer.
This first cut of the API is pretty similar to Core::ConfigFile.
The old:
auto config = Core::ConfigFile::open_for_app("App");
auto value = config->read_entry("Group", "Key");
The new:
auto value = Config::read_string("App", "Group", "Key");
ConfigServer uses the ~/.config directory as its backing store
and all the files remain human-editable. :^)
A SPICE agent communicates with the host OS to provide nifty features
like clipboard sharing :^)
This patch implements only plain-text clipboard sharing.
See: github.com/freedesktop/spice-protocol/blob/master/spice/vd_agent.h
Adds new service FileSystemAccessServer which allows programs to
request a file descriptor for any file on the file system.
The user can be prompted to choose the path with a FilePicker, or the
path can be provided by the application which will show a MessageBox
showing the pid and name of the calling process and allows the user to
approve or deny the request.
This will run all the tests that are children of this service with
deadly UBSAN, ensuring we don't get any UBSAN regressions in on-target
tests anymore. :^)
Some of these were using 660 permissions which meant that other users
in the "users" group could connect to anon's service processes.
Let's tighten things up by not allowing that. :^)
This service daemon will act as an intermediary between the Inspector
program and the inspectable programs it wants to inspect.
Programs can make themselves available for inspection by connecting
to /tmp/portal/inspectables using the Core::EventLoop RPC protocol.
After looking closely at this, I realized that we've been running
all the service processes under separate user accounts even though
there's actually no need to.
Since we already use pledge() and unveil() to limit the scope and
access of these programs, separating them to another UID doesn't
achieve anything meaningful. So let's bring them back to the "anon"
user account and simplify things.
Programs affected:
- ImageDecoder
- RequestServer
- WebContent
- WebSocket
Longer term, I'd like for all of these to get spawned for the current
desktop user somehow, possibly by some kind of session manager, or
perhaps by the Browser program itself. But for now they remain under
SystemServer's control.
I can't say I like starting yet another thing on boot... but now that
LookupServer provides mDNS (and optionaly DNS) services to other hosts,
we have to start it on boot, not when the first local client connects.
The current ProtocolServer was really only used for requests, and with
the recent introduction of the WebSocket service, long-lasting
connections with another server are not part of it. To better reflect
this, this commit renames it to RequestServer.
This commit also changes the existing 'protocol' portal to 'request',
the existing 'protocol' user and group to 'request', and most mentions
of the 'download' aspect of the request to 'request' when relevant, to
make everything consistent across the system.
Note that LibProtocol still exists as-is, but the more generic Client
class and the more specific Download class have both been renamed to a
more accurate RequestClient and Request to match the new names.
This commit only change names, not behaviors.
The WebSocket service isolates communication with a WebSocket to its
own isolated process. Similar to other isolating services, it has its
own user and group.
This is useful for CI where we don't want to spend a minute and a half
benchmarking Vector::append, and we don't have a good way to pass
test-specific arguments yet. :)
With this patch the window manager related functionality is split out
onto a new endpoint pair named WindowManagerServer/Client. This allows
window manager functionality to be potentially privilege separated in
the future. To this end, a new client named WMConnectionClient
is used to maintain a window manager connection. When a process
connects to the endpoint and greets the WindowServer as a window manager
(via Window::make_window_manager(int)), they're subscribed to the events
they requested via the WM event mask.
This patch also removes the hardcoding of the Taskbar WindowType to
receive WM events automatically. However, being a window manager still
requires having an active window, at the moment.
Build a new version of Serenity in CI that doesn't have all the debug
symbols on, or we'd be waiting a very long time to boot.
Insert a TestRunner entry into SystemServer.ini that will run a shell
script that runs tests in /bin and /usr/Tests and shuts down the system
in the new self-test boot mode. Also make sure enough basic services are
started in self-test such that the tests will actually run properly.
This patch adds SymbolServer, a service daemon that provides
symbolication of ELF binaries. It has a very simple IPC API at the
moment that only turns addresses into symbol names.
This can be used to implement symbolication without having to do
in-process ELF parsing yourself. :^)
Until someone has time to implement something for not showing the
very first network change at boot, let's turn off notifications for
network changes by default altogether. Having to dismiss this
notification at every boot gets old fast.
The language server keeps track of the content of currently edited
files by receiving updates about edit actions.
Also, C++ autocompletion is no longer tied to HackStudio itself and
moved to be part of the language server.
Everyone who connects to ProtocolServer now gets his own instance.
This means that different users can no longer talk to the same exact
ProtocolServer process, enhanching security and stability.
The new ImageDecoder service (available for members of "image" via
/tmp/portal/image) allows you to decode images in a separate process.
This will allow programs to confidently load untrusted images, since
the bulk of the security concerns are sandboxed to a separate process.
The only API right now is a synchronous IPC DecodeImage() call that
takes a shbuf with encoded image data and returns a shared buffer and
metadata for the decoded image.
It also comes with a very simple library for interfacing with the
ImageDecoder service: LibImageDecoderClient. The name is a bit of a
mouthful but I guess we can rename it later if we think of something
nicer to call it.
There's obviously a bit of overhead to spawning a separate process
for every image decode, so this is mostly only appropriate for
untrusted images (e.g stuff downloaded from the web) and not necessary
for trusted local images (e.g stuff in /res)
Port the WebContent service to the new MultiInstance mechanism that
Sergey added. This means that every new WebContentView gets its very
own segregated WebContent process.
The "WebContent" service provides a very restricted instance of LibWeb
running as an unprivileged user account. This will be used to implement
process separation in Browser, among other things.
This first cut of the service only spawns a single WebContent process
when someone connects to /tmp/portal/webcontent. We will soon switch
this over to spawning a new process for each connection.
Since this feature is very immature, we'll be bringing it up inside of
Demos/WebView as a separate demo program. Eventually this will become
a reusable widget that anyone can embed and easily get out-of-process
web content in their GUI.
This is pretty, pretty cool! :^)
Now that we have SystemServer that can (re)spawn the Shell, we don't need a
separate server just for that.
The two shells (on tty0 and tty1) are configured to only be started when booting
in text mode. This means you can now simply say boot_mode=text on the kernel
command line, and SystemServer will set up the system and spawn a comfy root
shell for you :^)
It will listen for clipboard content changes in the backgroud. Once you click
on its icon, it will pop up a window listing all recorded clipboard contents.
You can then double-click on an item to copy it again.
This commit moves the clipboard from WindowServer into a new Clipboard
service program. Clipboard runs as the unprivileged "clipboard" user
and with a much tighter pledge than WindowServer.
To keep things working as before, all GUI::Application users now make
a connection to Clipboard after making the connection to WindowServer.
It could be interesting to connect to Clipboard on demand, but right
now that would necessitate expanding every GUI app's pledge to include
"unix" and also unveiling the clipboard portal, which I prefer not to.
