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authorGravatar Aaron Jones2026-03-11 03:57:11 +0000
committerGravatar Aaron Jones2026-03-11 08:57:36 +0000
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parentMake TAGMSG behave like NOTICE for errors (diff)
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Tidy up module loading code amdj/modules
The existing code had several defects: - Core module file names were hardcoded, while autoloaded non- core module filenames were not. Code that loaded core modules had a different but in some places duplicated structure to the code that loaded autoloaded modules. - Module loading for autoloaded modules happened in dentry order, making it unpredictable from one server to the next, or even across instances of `make install` on the same server. - Module loading for autoloaded modules did not verify that the dentry was a file before trying to load it. - An IRCd start (or a conftest) only printed lines about loading modules mentioned in the configuration file. - The configuration file was parsed before loading core and autoloaded modules, meaning any modules specified in the configuration file would be loaded first. - Once a module was loaded, it was added to the head of the module list, making MODLIST show them in reverse loaded order (newest (re)loaded modules at the top of the list). These are addressed as follows: - We now scan the core and autoload module directories and use this to determine which modules to load. - We now sort the dentries according to their filename before iterating them to load them, making module load order finally deterministic. - We now test if a dentry is actually a file before trying to load it. - We now print a message to the console (if running in foreground or conftest mode) when loading any module, including core and autoloaded modules. - The message printed to the console now has the IRCd module directory prefix stripped from it if it matches. - The configuration file is now parsed after loading core and autoload modules. - The modules are added to the module list in the order that they are loaded. This now makes MODLIST show the order that modules were (re)loaded in. Modifications to two modules are part of this effort: - The autoload module `m_alias` relied upon the alias dict not being NULL when loaded, but this is only the case after the configuration file has been parsed. The module already had a "rehash" hook to destroy all existing aliases and create new ones, so we can just make the module do nothing on load (remove its modinit function) and change it to use the "conf_read_end" hook instead of the "rehash" hook, and it will still create aliases after the configuration file is subsequently parsed. With this modification, there are now no in-tree consumers of the "rehash" hook. - The autoload module `m_services` iterated `service_list` upon loading it, which will now be empty (a no-op) since the module is loaded before configuration file is parsed. This module too handles the configuration file being parsed with a "conf_read_end" hook and takes the appropriate action, so we can just remove this code from its modinit function. All other modules' modinit functions have been audited for behaviour like this; there was nothing of note.
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