[glib] (335 commits) Non-fast-forward update to branch ebassi/object-allocator

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi src gnome org>]

The branch 'ebassi/object-allocator' was changed in a way that was not a fast-forward update.
NOTE: This may cause problems for people pulling from the branch. For more information,
please see:

 https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Help/NonFastForward

Commits removed from the branch:

  3dc2901... gtype: Use the system allocator on UNIX

Commits added to the branch:

  70cb59e... docs: Document the release process (*)
  6219292... gio/tests: Add tests for cancellable pollfd and cancellatio (*)
  e218371... gio/tests: Ensure that cancellable is cancelled when emitti (*)
  e7269a2... gio/tests: Ensure that a cancellable hangs if reset from ca (*)
  920f54e... gatomicarray: Use atomic exchange for data value (*)
  576e5f2... cancellable: Use more atomic exchanges operations (*)
  9c32cfb... gfileattribute: Do atomic addition before checking the old  (*)
  bfd7769... gresource: Use atomic pointer exchange operations to nullif (*)
  2c322f2... gmain: Do atomic addition before checking the old value on  (*)
  00f3f0d... gthread: Use atomic pointer exchange to check value set on  (*)
  8c4598a... dataset: Do not increment (*)
  ad0f719... glib/tests/dataset: Add a test (*)
  ac113c1... In `test_datalist_id_remove_multiple()`, verify that the da (*)
  a4fa456... gdataset: Preserve destruction order (*)
  4282657... glib/tests/dataset: Test id_remove_multiple (*)
  a437a97... dataset: Rename `i` as `destroy_index` and move it out of ` (*)
  e95a6bd... glib/tests/dataset: Use existing code (*)
  8bd6325... dataset: Improve readability (*)
  8a43ae7... dataset: Document some logic (*)
  94ba14d... gobject: Weaken an assertion in g_weak_ref_set() (*)
  4ef2025... gobject/tests/binding: Add a test with run-dispose (*)
  640e586... gbacktrace: Handle case of strerror_r returning an int valu (*)
  edd718b... gstrfuncs: Handle the case strerror_r returns an error (*)
  d21d213... gstrfuncs: Update docs for g_strerror with a string closer  (*)
  1bf53c9... Merge branch 'strerror_r-int-variant-support' into 'main' (*)
  a43723e... tests/spawn-singlethread: fix test EOL on win32 (*)
  ed564b7... Merge branch '2672-dataset-tests-and-fixes' into 'main' (*)
  17ac664... gmain: do not wakeup the wakeup registration (*)
  1a29fd4... tests/mainloop: iterate for a little while for timeout-once (*)
  7b93693... gmain: Add a clarifying comment about exit statuses vs wait (*)
  a7efce1... Merge branch 'issue-2659' into 'main' (*)
  f615eef... gmain: Use waitid() on pidfds rather than a global SIGCHLD  (*)
  c0a618a... gobject: Don't skip custom dispatch_properties_changed (*)
  edcd2d4... Add a test for custom dispatch_properties_changed (*)
  60346f1... Merge branch 'another-victim-of-gobject' into 'main' (*)
  043f3dc... Merge branch 'wip/pwithnall/2216-pidfd-sigchld' into 'main' (*)
  9d89f75... Merge branch 'release-docs' into 'main' (*)
  3290ebf... gobject: Small speedup in weak-ref-set (*)
  fb607d3... Merge branch '2776-follow-up' into 'main' (*)
  ed130c8... gobject/tests/custom-dispatch: Mark the foo property as exp (*)
  28dc989... gobject/tests: Add test to verify that custom dispatch is c (*)
  32dbedc... Merge branch 'custom-dispatch-test-more' into 'main' (*)
  a5ccaa0... glib/tests/thread-pool-slow: Fix indentation in test_thread (*)
  fabdc2d... glib/test/thread-pool-slow: Ensure all unused threads are r (*)
  a275ee6... gthreadpool: Update unused_threads while we still own the p (*)
  71e76fa... Update Persian translation (*)
  e5f3b08... Update Persian translation (*)
  6997ebc... Merge branch 'thread-pool-slow-really-stops-unused' into 'm (*)
  8d5a44d... replace pcre1 with pcre2 (*)
  cd9a5c1... Merge branch 'rybalkin-pcre2' into 'main' (*)
  39ecb71... gthread-posix: Do not do unguarded and non-atomic assignmen (*)
  e19df71... Merge branch 'scheduler-warning-atomic-set' into 'main' (*)
  e6af2d3... ci: Specify -Wno-overlength-strings on macOS (*)
  f0e98a1... gstdio: Do not pass wrong pointer types to FILETIME to unix (*)
  4353813... build: Specify -Werror=pointer-sign (*)
  df239b9... Merge branch 'wip/pwithnall/wpointer-sign' into 'main' (*)
  e2639ce... gsocketclient: Fix passing NULL to g_task_get_cancellable() (*)
  ecaa5b5... gio/tests/desktop-app-info: Wait until the callback is call (*)
  b8b037c... Merge branch '2687-socket-cancellable' into 'main' (*)
  c752b63... Merge branch 'wait-for-async-uri-handler-called' into 'main (*)
  2c8948c... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  f622a4e... 2.73.2 (*)
  99c2b4e... ci: Setup submodules and subprojects before building on dis (*)
  a2f8dca... Update Persian translation (*)
  399f46f... giomodule: Use g_once_init_enter/leave to register extensio (*)
  871e570... gmain: define non-posix symbols (*)
  0c484b9... Merge branch 'giomodule-init-once' into 'main' (*)
  42172b6... Merge branch 'musl' into 'main' (*)
  4c62849... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  8b1e8ec... goption: Slightly improve the documentation for G_OPTION_FL (*)
  0be4611... Update Hebrew translation (*)
  5cd94a0... gregex: use %s format specifier for localized error message (*)
  e395ff2... Merge branch 'rybalkin-gregex-fix-translation-extraction' i (*)
  c1eb93d... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  c05d090... gregex: Ensure we translate the errcode without asserting o (*)
  28fd2e4... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  28c07dc... Merge branch 'regex-do-not-assert-on-compile-error' into 'm (*)
  ae14f32... gsignal: Perform signal unlocked handlers block, unblock an (*)
  42d5203... gsignal: Do not try to lookup the signal id and work on unl (*)
  d0b9ebb... meson: fix build without cpp toolchain (*)
  04255e4... Add missing extension point register for for GMemorySetting (*)
  924da75... gio: Ensure extension points are registered when creating S (*)
  7c4e603... Add tests for GMemorySettingsBackend and GNullSettingsBacke (*)
  bdaf1ff... Merge branch 'c-only' into 'main' (*)
  c3a80a7... Merge branch 'non-registered-extension-point' into 'main' (*)
  b33ba73... Merge branch 'gsignal-threading-cleanup' into 'main' (*)
  32e1c2f... Merge branch 'dist-job-fix' into 'main' (*)
  37efb8c... Update Persian translation (*)
  edcedd8... Update Persian translation (*)
  937f9a6... gioenums: G_IO_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE is new in 2.74 (*)
  764f071... gdbusauth: empty DATA does not need a trailing space (*)
  a7d2e72... GDBusServer: If no initial response for EXTERNAL, send a ch (*)
  b51e3ab... GDBusServer: Accept empty authorization identity for EXTERN (*)
  3f532af... gdbusauth: Represent empty data block as DATA\r\n, with no  (*)
  0c24039... tests: Add a test for GDBusServer with various simulated cl (*)
  6abda14... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/no-such-device' into 'main' (*)
  6c93ac8... gregex: Free match info if offset matching recalc failed (*)
  8d3dac8... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/gdbus-sasl' into 'main' (*)
  34e5bb8... Merge branch 'gregex-match-info-leak-fix' into 'main' (*)
  bcd8cb3... gregex: use G_REGEX_OPTIMIZE flag to enable JIT compilation (*)
  b12e031... Merge branch 'rybalkin-gregex-jit-compilation' into 'main' (*)
  9f2e01d... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  46744b9... Update Russian translation (*)
  029e90a... Update Turkish translation (*)
  2c2e059... gregex: use g_debug instead of g_warning in case JIT is not (*)
  5094c34... Merge branch 'rybalkin-gregex-message-instead-of-warning' i (*)
  55928d6... Merge branch 'more-atomic-ops' into 'main' (*)
  58172a9... Merge branch 'flag-reverse-docs' into 'main' (*)
  e9c8070... Update Georgian translation (*)
  0c087d1... gio: Optionally install trigger executables to architecture (*)
  552328b... NEWS: Add an entry for multiarch trigger executables (*)
  e0a0749... gdbusauthmechanismexternal: Optionally send empty authoriza (*)
  32b226d... gdbus: Allow cross-namespace connections to Linux session a (*)
  a4135b9... assert-msg-test.py: Look for assert-msg-test relative to th (*)
  0714bcb... gobject/tests/performance: Use the other installed-tests te (*)
  72868c0... gobject/tests/performance: Only run a quick version as inst (*)
  101be84... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/installed-tests' into 'main' (*)
  a374b7c... gio-tool: Flatten the outputed string (*)
  196e360... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/gdbus-cross-namespace' into 'main' (*)
  206be0a... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/multiarch-triggers' into 'main' (*)
  d0967c1... Revert "gdesktopappinfo: Use `sh` rather than `gio-launch-d (*)
  6751392... tests: Avoid using deprecated meson.build_root (*)
  6620d28... gio-launch-desktop: Add SPDX-License-Identifier (*)
  e4e21f2... gio-launch-desktop: Fix a compiler warning (*)
  8157668... gdesktopappinfo: Don't trust $GIO_LAUNCH_DESKTOP if setuid (*)
  ae15c80... Install gio-launch-desktop in a non-PATH location (*)
  763643c... gio-launch-desktop: Redirect stdout, stderr to systemd Jour (*)
  6c3e52b... gmessages: Factor out _g_fd_is_journal into its own transla (*)
  f736414... gio-launch-desktop: Don't alter stdout/stderr if not alread (*)
  9c1b239... Merge branch 'iss2542' into 'main' (*)
  30c840a... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/gio-launch-desktop-sd-journal' into  (*)
  94e05f7... gio-launch-desktop: Only replace fds that point to the Jour (*)
  f2aeba9... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/gio-launch-desktop-sd-journal' into  (*)
  2292a23... Update Russian translation (*)
  68a6628... Add Abkhazian translation (*)
  6535c77... gregex: do not set match and recursion limits on match cont (*)
  a2b5b9e... gregex: add original test case for issue #2700 (*)
  6629948... Merge branch 'rybalkin-gregex-remove-match-context-limits'  (*)
  09234b5... Introduce G_APPLICATION_DEFAULT_FLAGS (*)
  aa65fc2... Rename G_TLS_CERTIFICATE_FLAGS_NONE (*)
  8f68c1e... Rename G_MARKUP_PARSE_FLAGS_NONE (*)
  f839eae... Merge branch 'ebassi/application-flags' into 'main' (*)
  b295c53... gfileinfo: Implement xattr attribute removal (*)
  2b21a30... Merge branch 'main' into 'main' (*)
  710ccee... gregex: use correct size for pcre2_pattern_info (*)
  bb0f073... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  5121b98... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  7eb791d... Merge branch 's390x-gregex-prce2-fix' into 'main' (*)
  9bc9a9b... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  dea174e... Update Georgian translation (*)
  a775578... Update Abkhazian translation (*)
  a9394bd... Implement GFileIface.set_display_name() for resource files (*)
  ecdbe3c... Update Basque translation (*)
  ece66f1... gio-tool: -d option to delete attribute (*)
  985ffc3... Update Russian translation (*)
  1473606... Merge branch 'ebassi/resource-no-display-name' into 'main' (*)
  ba5e403... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  45bdeed... GWin32AppInfo: Actually report the GPid in the GAppLaunchCo (*)
  0cb43a4... Merge branch 'g-win32-app-info-launched-signal-actually-rep (*)
  477ff94... gspawn-win32: Provide thread-safe wrappers for _wspawn*e fu (*)
  b62745f... gmain: close pidfd when finalizing GChildWatchSource (*)
  ab189ec... Merge branch 'wip/chergert/fix-2708' into 'main' (*)
  bf028b9... Merge branch 'protect-calls-to-msvcrt-wspawne-with-a-mutex' (*)
  08715a4... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  a1737ec... Fix GCancellable tests for Windows 64bit (*)
  cdb8e5e... Fix warnings in GCancellable test (*)
  61a8435... Improve default value of glib_debug option (*)
  72128e2... Merge branch 'fix-gio-tests-cancellable-for-windows-x64' in (*)
  d3ae4cc... GWin32AppInfo: Ensure COM is initialized when activating UW (*)
  6965f64... Merge branch 'iss2588' into 'main' (*)
  3feccc1... Merge branch 'mcatanzaro/build-best-practices' into 'main' (*)
  ea0617e... docs: Add --delete option to gio-tool attributes documentat (*)
  9d37075... Expose tls-exporter channel binding (*)
  0199fd5... Merge branch 'gio-tool-delete-docs' into 'main' (*)
  a4f6070... Merge branch 'mcatanzaro/tls-exporter' into 'main' (*)
  1edb3c5... 2.73.3 (*)
  bcddc56... gtlscertificate: Update reference to G_TLS_CERTIFICATE_NO_F (*)
  53e533c... Update Russian translation (*)
  14baaa9... Update Persian translation (*)
  a23580a... Update Basque translation (*)
  9c8f6a9... Update Ukrainian translation (*)
  98a6f29... Update Portuguese translation (*)
  dcf6f54... Update Persian translation (*)
  96c541c... Merge branch 'tls-no-flags-rename-fix' into 'main' (*)
  d4c16c6... Updated Spanish translation (*)
  2375d85... Update Persian translation (*)
  bfe7c34... Update Persian translation (*)
  0ffe86a... Replace most GObject warnings with criticals (*)
  bf13a5e... GWin32AppInfo: Implement launch_uris_async (*)
  9acb3e9... Update Croatian translation (*)
  663a795... Update Catalan translation (*)
  c850a06... gio-launch-desktop: replace static_assert with G_STATIC_ASS (*)
  813ce7f... gio-launch-desktop: preserve static_assert message (*)
  ebcc3c0... glib-mkenums: Specify output encoding as UTF-8 explicitly f (*)
  2a52190... Update Chinese (China) translation (*)
  f0ff6a6... GWin32AppInfo: Add g_win32_app_info_launch_uris_impl utilit (*)
  1df83ac... mem: Document OOM behavior for allocations (*)
  1fcaac9... Update Polish translation (*)
  6b98081... Update Galician translation (*)
  79c70d7... gparamspec: mark nick/blurb as nullable (*)
  5abee39... Merge branch 'andyholmes/gparampec-annotation-fixes' into ' (*)
  0e112b4... Merge branch 'document-oom-behavior' into 'main' (*)
  1dfdcaf... Updated Lithuanian translation (*)
  7435ac1... Update Persian translation (*)
  62a9a8a... Update Abkhazian translation (*)
  c135882... Update Indonesian translation (*)
  426fab1... gio-unix: Use EPOLL_CLOEXEC by default (*)
  cff3e66... GWin32AppInfo: Emit GAppLaunchContext signals for all code  (*)
  42a76e1... GWin32AppInfo: Check for task cancellation (*)
  361b4a8... GAppInfo: Clarify that GAppInfo launch methods can spawn mu (*)
  d12cf95... GDesktopAppInfo: Tidy up code a bit (*)
  5351519... GWin32AppInfo: Instantiate ApplicationActivationManager out (*)
  e493d59... Update Persian translation (*)
  e1e9bc9... Merge branch 'g-win32-app-info-launch-uris-async' into 'mai (*)
  56236d7... Merge branch 'use-cloexec-epoll' into 'main' (*)
  695d6b4... Updated Czech translation (*)
  a0e71ff... gio-tool-mount: Return early on fgets EOF (*)
  22757b2... Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (*)
  2ef66ba... Merge branch 'main' into 'main' (*)
  c0bd4d8... Update Hungarian translation (*)
  3242291... Update Danish translation (*)
  66c4e35... Update Turkish translation (*)
  e112bdb... GWin32AppInfo: Add missing g_spawn_close_pid (*)
  903c004... Fix array-bounds compiler warnings with GCC 12 (*)
  e08c954... Fix check before a memcpy (*)
  511627b... tests/dbus-appinfo: Add test case for flatpak opening an in (*)
  27203e4... documentportal: Fix small leak in add_documents with empty  (*)
  88d4b3b... Merge branch 'fix-doc-portal-add-leak' into 'main' (*)
  1da208c... gio/tests/gdbus-proxy-threads: Unref GVariant's that we own (*)
  e268ff3... gio/tests/gdbus-peer: Unref cached property GVariant value (*)
  026a699... gdesktopappinfo: Unref GDBus call result GVariant if no cal (*)
  221f22b... gdesktopappinfo: Unref the GDBus call results (*)
  74f01de... ci: Increase the valgrind job meson test timeout (*)
  0618f5e... g_strsplit: Use a pre-allocated GArray when max_tokens is p (*)
  1d9a362... Merge branch 'fix-some-variant-leaks' into 'main' (*)
  bafd025... Merge branch 'ebassi/gcc-12-fixes' into 'main' (*)
  6ed8934... Update Persian translation (*)
  72ed39a... Update Korean translation (*)
  1eb1a47... GActionGroup: Fix ownership transfer annotation for query_a (*)
  5125194... Merge branch 'andyholmes/gactiongroup-queryaction-ownership (*)
  1a32433... Merge branch 'strsplit-pre-allocated-array' into 'main' (*)
  1f4188f... Merge branch 'fgets-error-ignore' into 'main' (*)
  07c808a... gioenumtypes: Only define GLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS (*)
  07a08d5... Merge branch 'coverity-build-fix' into 'main' (*)
  3999bad... gbacktrace: Don't truncate gdb output (*)
  24572c9... Merge branch 'g-win32-app-info-fixes' into 'main' (*)
  7526f77... ci: Improve style check script (*)
  949f070... Merge branch 'ci-style-check-improvements' into 'main' (*)
  07506b3... Update Swedish translation (*)
  615c400... Update Chinese (China) translation (*)
  0a665b5... Update Slovenian translation (*)
  a94121f... Updated Spanish translation (*)
  5676303... Updated Spanish translation (*)
  c646901... Update Persian translation (*)
  23c1b40... tests/regex: Add debug strings for compile and match option (*)
  d496691... tests/regex: Actually check for match options changes (*)
  d639c4e... regex: Do not mix PCRE2 Compile, Match, Newline and BSR fla (*)
  df66951... tests/regex: Add test for gtksourceview regression (*)
  1185a13... gregex: Mark g_match_info_get_regex as transfer none (*)
  1f88976... gregex: Do not try access the undefined match offsets if we (*)
  13ad429... gregex: Fix a potential PCRE2 code leak on reallocation fai (*)
  1d628da... regex: Use size types more in line with PCRE2 returned valu (*)
  1152197... gregex: Handle the case we need to re-allocate the match da (*)
  aee84cb... gregex: Avoid re-allocating if we have no size change (*)
  e8628a7... regex: Compute the offsets size based on match results (*)
  fe1c262... regex: Avoid allocating offsets until we've a match (*)
  5e76cde... regex: Handle JIT errors more explicitly (*)
  0831393... tests/regex: Make possible to test replacements with option (*)
  bec68b2... glib/regex: Do not use JIT when using unsupported match opt (*)
  653f8eb... tests/regex: Perform more tests both with and without optim (*)
  a1c78d6... meson: Set install_tag on all tools (*)
  dcb464f... Merge branch 'install-tag' into 'main' (*)
  a2a0441... Update French translation (*)
  0d823aa... Merge branch 'wip/3v1n0/regex-pcre2-flags-fixes' into 'main (*)
  98d0714... Update Bulgarian translation (*)
  b88474e... gobject: Only emit deprecation warnings for user-specified  (*)
  fef0408... gobject: Add a test for deprecated properties (*)
  de57914... Merge branch 'wip/smcv/deprecated-construct-prop' into 'mai (*)
  d41b5bf... Revert "Merge branch 'wip/smcv/deprecated-construct-prop' i (*)
  a20a36b... Merge branch 'revert-de57914b' into 'main' (*)
  4f4ac4a... Update Finnish translation (*)
  d9ba615... Handling collision between standard i/o file descriptors an (*)
  22f5016... ci: Expose the coverage report as link in the MR's (*)
  29cf6b2... ci: Install lcov-cobertura and cobertura-split script in co (*)
  3ddfb10... ci: Generate Cobertura XML and use it to feed gitlab for MR (*)
  d6a378a... run-docker: Do not require sudo if the user is part of dock (*)
  d37beda... Merge branch 'expose-artifacts-in-pr' into 'main' (*)
  37dba1c... gio-launch-desktop: Fix the G_STATIC_ASSERT expressions for (*)
  9cd9787... gio: make g_task_get_cancellable return value nullable (*)
  eeaef8b... docs: Improve wording in documentation of g_unix_signal_sou (*)
  ee470da... Merge branch 'pr-docs-improve-wording-glib-unix' into 'main (*)
  2401e1a... glocalfileoutputstream: Do not double-close an fd on unlink (*)
  6d56a75... Update British English translation (*)
  30bd57e... 2.74.0 (*)
  115d8b4... Post-release version bump to 2.74.1 (*)
  02c14bb... Update Kazakh translation (*)
  74b9f4e... Update Turkish translation (*)
  bd3abd0... docs: Fix markup error in code blocks for "DEPRECATED" macr (*)
  b38d5a9... Merge branch 'pr-docs-fix-markup-code-blocks' into 'main' (*)
  902ba0b... tests: Only run g_error_new_valist() programmer error test  (*)
  13776b4... Merge branch 'wip/sadiq/fix-bt-lines-cut' into 'main' (*)
  d29e936... Merge branch 'mkenum-build-fix' into 'main' (*)
  22f0522... Merge branch 'mcatanzaro/gtype-criticals' into 'main' (*)
  7e9625a... Merge branch 'handling_collision_over_standard_file_descrip (*)
  871d4f9... Merge branch 'tests-error-musl' into 'main' (*)
  65abaa7... Merge branch 'task_get_cancellable_nullable' into 'main' (*)
  51cf76e... Merge branch 'kjellahl/gio-launch-desktop-clang' into 'main (*)
  7b53edb... Merge branch 'local-output-stream-prevent-double-fd-close'  (*)
  4f72d3b... gthread-win32: Fix conversion error from pointer to integer (*)
  e53c68b... Merge branch 'cast-error' into 'main' (*)
  c00df19... meson: Set install_tag on installed tests files (*)
  49fd523... meson: Set install_tag on systemtap files (*)
  a73ca33... meson: Set install_tag on remaining installed files (*)
  497f151... ci: Check that all installed files have a tag (*)
  87b4771... Merge branch 'install-tag-2' into 'main' (*)
  cfdcdaa... Consider the GLogField.length of "MESSAGE"/"GLIB_DOMAIN" fi (*)
  4e61dbc... Merge branch 'log-field-nul-termination' into 'main' (*)
  d2818c2... Update German translation (*)
  ea3f17d... Empty values are not valid GParamSpec (*)
  8f975d0... ci: Conform to Python's coding style (*)
  0b43858... Merge branch 'ebassi/fix-python-style-check' into 'main' (*)
  f0dd96c... Merge branch 'ebassi/issue-2770' into 'main' (*)
  a164b49... gregex: Allow G_REGEX_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT in compile mask for (*)
  664ee9c... gregex: Drop explanation G_REGEX_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT (*)
  df8403e... Merge branch 're-js-compat' into 'main' (*)
  ce48bf1... Update Friulian translation (*)
  274761d... Update Abkhazian translation (*)
  255fa26... build: Let Meson figure out Python installation (*)
  2843eef... Merge branch 'gbsneto/python-find' into 'main' (*)
  e3c56a2... Update Friulian translation (*)
  f5a5108... Update Occitan translation (*)
  737ca7d... gdatetime: add missing g_return_() check in g_date_time_for (*)
  07e3ec6... Merge branch 'aleksander/gdatetime-return-if-fail' into 'ma (*)
  2b8b866... Update Hebrew translation (*)
  3b7af4d... gtype: Use the system allocator on UNIX

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