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mesh-catalog/modules/clipmenu/cmd/clipmenu-tools/session.go
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jochen c42cd285e2 clipmenu: the clipboard manager as a module, claiming node-clipboard and serving history and copy (hq ADR 0208)
Replaces the AUR greenclip (declared absent) with the official clipmenu, started
once from the session's xinitrc slot, its menu the launcher's dmenu command bound
as an i3 drop-in, its history in the runtime directory. Go tools read and change
clipmenu's own store under its lock.
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// The operator's graphical session, as a tool the node's runtime runs finds it (novox/hq ADR 0208).
//
// The runtime is a system service running as the operator account (ADR 0175): it has the account's
// uid and none of the session's environment — no DISPLAY, no XAUTHORITY, no session bus. A tool that
// draws on the screen or talks to the desktop's D-Bus must find them. It reads them from a process of
// the account that is part of the session (the window manager first), the same thing `loginctl` and
// a person's own shell would point at, and says where it found them.
//
// Long-lived programs a tool starts go to the account's own service manager through `systemd-run
// --user`, never as children of the tool: the runtime's unit is a cgroup the service manager empties
// whenever the runtime restarts, and a compositor or a clipboard owner started from inside it would
// die with it.
//
// This file is the same in every desktop module that carries it; it moves into the Go SDK once a
// second consumer outside the desktop wants it.
package main
import (
"bytes"
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"strconv"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
)
// Where the session is looked for. Variables so a test can point them at a fake tree.
var (
procRoot = "/proc"
runUserDir = "/run/user"
x11Sockets = "/tmp/.X11-unix"
)
// sessionHolders are the processes whose environment is the session's, best first: the window
// manager is the session, the rest are its children. Anything else carrying DISPLAY ranks after them.
var sessionHolders = []string{"i3", "sway", "i3bar", "picom", "xss-lock", "dunst", "clipmenud", "xterm"}
// sessionKeys are the variables a session carries that a tool hands on to what it runs.
var sessionKeys = []string{"DISPLAY", "XAUTHORITY", "WAYLAND_DISPLAY", "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS",
"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", "XDG_SESSION_ID", "I3SOCK"}
// Session is what a tool needs to reach the operator's desktop.
type Session struct {
UID int `json:"uid"`
Display string `json:"display,omitempty"`
XAuthority string `json:"xauthority,omitempty"`
Wayland string `json:"wayland_display,omitempty"`
Bus string `json:"bus,omitempty"`
RuntimeDir string `json:"runtime_dir,omitempty"`
SessionID string `json:"session_id,omitempty"`
I3Sock string `json:"i3sock,omitempty"`
// From says where the values were found: the tool's own environment, a process, or the socket.
From string `json:"from"`
}
// ErrNoSession is answered by a tool that needs the desktop when nobody is logged in to it.
var ErrNoSession = errors.New("no graphical session")
// ErrTimedOut is what run answers for a command ended because it ran past its time.
var ErrTimedOut = errors.New("timed out")
// ErrNoBus is answered by a tool that needs the session bus when the account has none.
var ErrNoBus = errors.New("no session bus")
// operatorHome is the account's home: what the runtime was told, else the process's own.
func operatorHome() string {
if h := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_OPERATOR_HOME")); h != "" {
return h
}
h, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
return h
}
// findSession finds the graphical session of the account this tool runs as, or answers
// ErrNoSession with what it looked at.
func findSession() (Session, error) {
s := findEnvironment()
if s.Display == "" && s.Wayland == "" {
return s, fmt.Errorf("%w for uid %d on this machine: no process of the account carries DISPLAY "+
"or WAYLAND_DISPLAY, and no X server socket in %s has an authority file to go with it. "+
"Is anyone logged in to the desktop?", ErrNoSession, s.UID, x11Sockets)
}
return s, nil
}
// findBus finds the account's session bus, which a logged-in account has whether or not a desktop
// is running.
func findBus() (Session, error) {
s := findEnvironment()
if s.Bus == "" {
return s, fmt.Errorf("%w for uid %d: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set and %s does not exist "+
"(the account is not logged in)", ErrNoBus, s.UID, filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(s.UID), "bus"))
}
return s, nil
}
func findEnvironment() Session {
uid := os.Getuid()
s := Session{UID: uid}
own := map[string]string{}
for _, k := range sessionKeys {
own[k] = os.Getenv(k)
}
if own["DISPLAY"] != "" || own["WAYLAND_DISPLAY"] != "" {
s.fill(own)
s.From = "the tool's own environment"
} else if pid, comm, env, ok := sessionProcess(uid); ok {
s.fill(env)
s.From = fmt.Sprintf("process %s (pid %d)", comm, pid)
} else if display, ok := lonelyX11Socket(); ok {
if a := filepath.Join(operatorHome(), ".Xauthority"); exists(a) {
s.Display, s.XAuthority = display, a
s.From = "the X server socket and the account's ~/.Xauthority"
}
s.fill(own)
} else {
s.fill(own)
s.From = "nothing: no session found"
}
// The bus and the runtime directory are the account's, whether or not the process named them.
runtime := filepath.Join(runUserDir, strconv.Itoa(uid))
if s.RuntimeDir == "" && exists(runtime) {
s.RuntimeDir = runtime
}
if s.Bus == "" && s.RuntimeDir != "" && exists(filepath.Join(s.RuntimeDir, "bus")) {
s.Bus = "unix:path=" + filepath.Join(s.RuntimeDir, "bus")
}
return s
}
func (s *Session) fill(env map[string]string) {
set := func(dst *string, key string) {
if *dst == "" {
*dst = env[key]
}
}
set(&s.Display, "DISPLAY")
set(&s.XAuthority, "XAUTHORITY")
set(&s.Wayland, "WAYLAND_DISPLAY")
set(&s.Bus, "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS")
set(&s.RuntimeDir, "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
set(&s.SessionID, "XDG_SESSION_ID")
set(&s.I3Sock, "I3SOCK")
}
// sessionProcess is the best process of this uid whose environment names a display.
func sessionProcess(uid int) (int, string, map[string]string, bool) {
entries, err := os.ReadDir(procRoot)
if err != nil {
return 0, "", nil, false
}
type candidate struct {
pid int
comm string
env map[string]string
rank int
}
var found []candidate
for _, e := range entries {
pid, err := strconv.Atoi(e.Name())
if err != nil {
continue
}
dir := filepath.Join(procRoot, e.Name())
if owner, ok := ownerOf(dir); !ok || owner != uid {
continue
}
raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "environ"))
if err != nil {
continue
}
env := parseEnviron(raw)
if env["DISPLAY"] == "" && env["WAYLAND_DISPLAY"] == "" {
continue
}
comm := readTrimmed(filepath.Join(dir, "comm"))
rank := len(sessionHolders)
for i, h := range sessionHolders {
if h == comm {
rank = i
break
}
}
found = append(found, candidate{pid, comm, env, rank})
}
if len(found) == 0 {
return 0, "", nil, false
}
sort.Slice(found, func(i, j int) bool {
if found[i].rank != found[j].rank {
return found[i].rank < found[j].rank
}
return found[i].pid > found[j].pid // the newer of two equals
})
best := found[0]
return best.pid, best.comm, best.env, true
}
func parseEnviron(raw []byte) map[string]string {
env := map[string]string{}
for _, kv := range bytes.Split(raw, []byte{0}) {
if i := bytes.IndexByte(kv, '='); i > 0 {
env[string(kv[:i])] = string(kv[i+1:])
}
}
return env
}
func ownerOf(path string) (int, bool) {
info, err := os.Stat(path)
if err != nil {
return 0, false
}
st, ok := info.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
if !ok {
return 0, false
}
return int(st.Uid), true
}
// lonelyX11Socket is the display of the one X server socket there is, when there is exactly one.
func lonelyX11Socket() (string, bool) {
entries, err := os.ReadDir(x11Sockets)
if err != nil {
return "", false
}
var displays []string
for _, e := range entries {
if n := strings.TrimPrefix(e.Name(), "X"); n != e.Name() {
if _, err := strconv.Atoi(n); err == nil {
displays = append(displays, ":"+n)
}
}
}
if len(displays) != 1 {
return "", false
}
return displays[0], true
}
func readTrimmed(path string) string {
b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
return ""
}
return strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
}
func exists(path string) bool {
_, err := os.Stat(path)
return err == nil
}
// Env is this process's environment with the session's variables in place of its own.
func (s Session) Env() []string {
drop := map[string]bool{}
for _, k := range sessionKeys {
drop[k] = true
}
var env []string
for _, kv := range os.Environ() {
if i := strings.IndexByte(kv, '='); i > 0 && drop[kv[:i]] {
continue
}
env = append(env, kv)
}
add := func(k, v string) {
if v != "" {
env = append(env, k+"="+v)
}
}
add("DISPLAY", s.Display)
add("XAUTHORITY", s.XAuthority)
add("WAYLAND_DISPLAY", s.Wayland)
add("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS", s.Bus)
add("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", s.RuntimeDir)
add("XDG_SESSION_ID", s.SessionID)
add("I3SOCK", s.I3Sock)
return env
}
// mostOutput bounds what a command may answer with, per stream.
const mostOutput = 256 << 10
// Result is what a command did.
type Result struct {
Stdout string `json:"stdout"`
Stderr string `json:"stderr,omitempty"`
Code int `json:"code"`
Truncated bool `json:"truncated,omitempty"`
}
// run runs a command in the session's environment, its input given, ended with everything it
// started after timeout. A command that is not installed is an error naming it; one that exits
// non-zero is a Result with its code, for the caller to judge.
func (s Session) run(timeout time.Duration, stdin string, name string, args ...string) (Result, error) {
path, err := exec.LookPath(name)
if err != nil {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%s is not installed on this machine", name)
}
cmd := exec.Command(path, args...)
cmd.Env = s.Env()
if home := operatorHome(); exists(home) {
cmd.Dir = home
}
if stdin != "" {
cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader(stdin)
}
var out, errOut capped
cmd.Stdout, cmd.Stderr = &out, &errOut
cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
}
done := make(chan error, 1)
go func() { done <- cmd.Wait() }()
select {
case err = <-done:
case <-time.After(timeout):
_ = syscall.Kill(-cmd.Process.Pid, syscall.SIGKILL)
<-done
return Result{Stdout: out.String(), Stderr: errOut.String()},
fmt.Errorf("%s did not finish within %s and was ended: %w", name, timeout, ErrTimedOut)
}
r := Result{Stdout: out.String(), Stderr: errOut.String(), Truncated: out.cut || errOut.cut}
var exit *exec.ExitError
if errors.As(err, &exit) {
r.Code = exit.ExitCode()
} else if err != nil {
return r, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
}
return r, nil
}
// detach starts a long-lived program under the account's own service manager, as a transient unit
// that carries the session's display, so it outlives the runtime that asked for it. A unit already
// running under the same name is stopped first, so a fixed name means "at most one".
func (s Session) detach(unit string, args ...string) error {
if s.RuntimeDir == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: the account's runtime directory is missing, so its service manager "+
"cannot be reached", ErrNoBus)
}
_, _ = s.run(5*time.Second, "", "systemctl", "--user", "stop", unit+".service")
call := []string{"--user", "--collect", "--quiet", "--unit=" + unit}
for _, kv := range [][2]string{{"DISPLAY", s.Display}, {"XAUTHORITY", s.XAuthority},
{"WAYLAND_DISPLAY", s.Wayland}, {"XDG_SESSION_ID", s.SessionID}, {"I3SOCK", s.I3Sock}} {
if kv[1] != "" {
call = append(call, "--setenv="+kv[0]+"="+kv[1])
}
}
call = append(call, "--")
call = append(call, args...)
r, err := s.run(10*time.Second, "", "systemd-run", call...)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if r.Code != 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("systemd-run %s: %s", unit, strings.TrimSpace(r.Stderr))
}
return nil
}
// uniqueUnit is a transient unit name that will not collide with an earlier one.
func uniqueUnit(prefix string) string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", prefix, time.Now().UnixNano())
}
type capped struct {
bytes.Buffer
cut bool
}
func (c *capped) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
if room := mostOutput - c.Len(); room < len(p) {
if room > 0 {
c.Buffer.Write(p[:room])
}
c.cut = true
return len(p), nil
}
return c.Buffer.Write(p)
}
// processesOf are the pids of this uid's processes whose command name is comm, oldest first.
func processesOf(comm string) []int {
entries, err := os.ReadDir(procRoot)
if err != nil {
return nil
}
uid := os.Getuid()
var pids []int
for _, e := range entries {
pid, err := strconv.Atoi(e.Name())
if err != nil {
continue
}
dir := filepath.Join(procRoot, e.Name())
if owner, ok := ownerOf(dir); !ok || owner != uid {
continue
}
if readTrimmed(filepath.Join(dir, "comm")) == comm {
pids = append(pids, pid)
}
}
sort.Ints(pids)
return pids
}
// signalAll sends sig to every process of this uid named comm, and answers the pids it reached.
func signalAll(comm string, sig syscall.Signal) []int {
var reached []int
for _, pid := range processesOf(comm) {
if syscall.Kill(pid, sig) == nil {
reached = append(reached, pid)
}
}
return reached
}