docs: add claude.md and avoid dashes

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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#
# The detection is deliberately conservative. A wrong "yes" appends an unknown
# argument to something that is not Chromium, and plenty of programs treat an
# unrecognised argument as a file name to open - so every rule here is a
# unrecognised argument as a file name to open. So every rule here is a
# positive one, and anything that cannot be identified is reported as unknown
# rather than guessed at.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
# swiftshader libraries) and plain CEF (libcef).
#
# Deliberately not in here: libEGL.so and libffmpeg.so. Chromium ships both, but
# so does the system - /usr/lib/libEGL.so exists on any machine with Mesa - and
# so does the system (/usr/lib/libEGL.so exists on any machine with Mesa), and
# a marker that can be somebody else's file is not a marker.
MCA_MARKERS=(
chrome_crashpad_handler chrome-sandbox chrome_100_percent.pak
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ MCA_MARKERS=(
)
# The markers that still mean something when the whole of a tree is searched
# rather than just the directory the binary sits in - inside a Flatpak, a snap
# or an AppImage, where there is no "next to the binary" to look at.
# rather than just the directory the binary sits in. That is the case inside a
# Flatpak, a snap or an AppImage, where there is no "next to the binary".
#
# Three of the names above are missing here on purpose. icudtl.dat is ICU's
# data file and not Chromium's: a Flutter application ships one in data/, and
# a whole-tree search would find it. snapshot_blob.bin and resources.pak are
# the same kind of shared name. Next to a binary they are still evidence,
# because nothing but Chromium unpacks its payload there - a few directories
# because nothing but Chromium unpacks its payload there. A few directories
# deeper they are not.
MCA_MARKERS_STRICT=(
chrome_crashpad_handler chrome-sandbox chrome_100_percent.pak
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ MCA_SCRIPT_HINTS='ELECTRON_|app\.asar|chrome-sandbox|libcef|enable-blink-feature
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Where Flatpak and snapd put the launchers they export. Both add these to
# XDG_DATA_DIRS themselves, through a file in /etc/profile.d - but only for a
# XDG_DATA_DIRS themselves, through a file in /etc/profile.d. But only for a
# session that was started after they were installed, and only for a session
# manager that reads it at all. They are appended, after everything XDG names,
# so a directory that is already in the search path keeps its own position and
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ mca_extra_desktop_dirs() {
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
}
# The directories a desktop entry can come from, most specific first - which is
# The directories a desktop entry can come from, most specific first. This is
# also XDG lookup order, so the first file found for an id is the one that is
# actually used.
mca_desktop_dirs() {
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ _mca_desktop_read() {
# mca_exec_program <exec line>
# The program a desktop entry actually starts: the first token that is not an
# environment prefix, resolved to an absolute path. The result is left in
# MCA_PROG rather than printed - the scan calls this for every desktop entry on
# MCA_PROG rather than printed. The scan calls this for every desktop entry on
# the system, and a command substitution each time is a fork each time.
#
# Fails for entries this tool has no safe way to rewrite: anything routed
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ mca_exec_flatpak_id() {
# Whether an entry starts something inside Steam rather than starting Steam
# itself: it carries a steam:// address of its own. Steam writes one of those
# for every game somebody asks for a shortcut to, and the client's own entry
# never has one - it takes an address from the outside, through %U.
# never has one. It takes an address from the outside, through %U.
mca_exec_is_steam_link() {
local line="$1" prog="$2"
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ _mca_prog_is_steam_name() {
# _mca_prog_is_steam_wrapper <program>
# Whether a script in front of the client is a way of starting Steam. People
# put one there to add a switch of their own, and an entry pointing at it is a
# Steam start like any other - but the script is not named after Steam, so
# Steam start like any other. But the script is not named after Steam, so
# nothing above recognises it.
#
# Getting this wrong is worse than it sounds: such a script tends to mention
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ _mca_prog_is_steam_wrapper() {
# mca_prog_is_steam <program>
# Whether running this program starts the Steam client. Every packaging is in
# here and every name Valve and the distributions give the launcher, because
# the answer decides whether an entry gets Steam's own switch - and an entry
# that starts Steam without it undoes the web helper patch on the way up.
# the answer decides whether an entry gets Steam's own switch. An entry that
# starts Steam without it undoes the web helper patch on the way up.
#
# The program is what a scan leaves behind: an absolute path for a native
# install, flatpak:<id> or snap:<name> for the other two.
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ _mca_stat_batch() {
# The first line of the cache file, and the reason it is there: the verdicts
# below it are keyed on size and mtime, so an entry for a file that has not
# changed is never looked at again. A cache written when a verdict meant
# something else - before an AppImage could come out as anything but "no" -
# something else (before an AppImage could come out as anything but "no")
# would therefore keep answering the old way forever. Bumping this is how such
# a cache gets dropped instead.
MCA_CACHE_FORMAT='# middleclick-autoscroll detect 2'
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ _mca_has_markers() {
[[ $dir == "$s" ]] && return 1
done
for s in "${MCA_SYSTEM_DIR_GLOBS[@]}"; do
# Unquoted on purpose - these are patterns, not names.
# Unquoted on purpose: these are patterns, not names.
# shellcheck disable=SC2053
[[ $dir == $s ]] && return 1
done
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ _mca_has_markers() {
# The same question for a whole tree, which is the shape a Flatpak, a snap and
# an unpacked AppImage come in: everything the application ships is somewhere
# under one root and there is no single directory that is "next to the binary".
# Hence the narrower list - see MCA_MARKERS_STRICT.
# Hence the narrower list, see MCA_MARKERS_STRICT.
_mca_find_markers() {
local root="$1" depth="$2" m
local -a names=()
@@ -423,9 +423,9 @@ declare -A MCA_SCRIPT_VARS=()
# The text with $NAME and ${NAME} replaced by what the script assigned to them,
# left in MCA_SUBST.
#
# Fails as soon as something turns up that only a running shell could work out
# - a positional parameter, a name the script never set, a default value. That
# is the point: an unresolvable path has to come out as no path at all, never
# Fails as soon as something turns up that only a running shell could work out,
# like a positional parameter, a name the script never set or a default value.
# That is the point: an unresolvable path has to come out as no path at all, never
# as a wrong one.
MCA_SUBST=''
@@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ _mca_script_subst() {
# openSUSE all set the directory and the program name into variables at the top
# of the script and end on `exec -a "$APPNAME" "$LIBDIR/$APPNAME"`. Without
# resolving those there is nothing to follow, and the answer would have to come
# from the hint scan - a weaker kind of evidence than finding the binary and
# its markers.
# from the hint scan, which is weaker evidence than finding the binary and its
# markers.
_mca_script_target() {
local script="$1" line tok name val skip=0
local -a tokens
@@ -537,10 +537,10 @@ _mca_script_target() {
# mca_flags_candidates <program>
# The flag files a launcher reads, in the order it reads them, taken from the
# launcher itself rather than assumed from the distribution. Where the wrappers
# follow that convention - Arch's Electron and Chromium packages do, and take
# extra arguments from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf - it is a far better
# place to inject than a desktop entry: it survives package updates and it
# launcher itself rather than assumed from the distribution. Arch's Electron
# and Chromium packages follow that convention and take extra arguments from
# $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf. Where the wrappers do that, it is a far
# better place to inject than a desktop entry: it survives package updates and it
# applies to a launch from the terminal too. Where they do not, this finds
# nothing and the caller falls back to the desktop entry.
mca_flags_candidates() {
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ mca_flags_candidates() {
# A wrapper that only execs another wrapper (heroic -> electron43) inherits
# that one's flag files, plus the specific name it builds from a variable
# at runtime and therefore never writes down - which is why that one is
# at runtime and therefore never writes down. That is why that one is
# derived from the target's own name rather than found.
#
# It is derived only once the target has shown that it reads a flag file at
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ mca_flags_candidates() {
# Looking inside an AppImage
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# An AppImage is the AppImage runtime - an ordinary ELF executable - with a
# An AppImage is the AppImage runtime (an ordinary ELF executable) with a
# squashfs image appended to it. The payload is compressed, so nothing the
# application ships is on disk where the marker check could find it, and for a
# long time that made every AppImage a "cannot tell".
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ mca_flags_candidates() {
# _mca_bytes <file> <offset> <count>
# Count bytes from an offset, as numbers, in MCA_BYTES. od rather than a shell
# read because a variable cannot hold a NUL byte and these headers are full of
# them - and a whole header at a time rather than a field at a time, because
# them. And a whole header at a time rather than a field at a time, because
# the first question below is asked about every program on the system and one
# od per field would be four forks per program.
MCA_BYTES=()
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ _mca_slice() {
#
# Fails for the all-ones value squashfs writes down for a table that is not in
# the image, which is a case the callers below have to tell from a real offset
# and bash arithmetic - signed, 64-bit - cannot represent.
# and bash arithmetic (signed, 64-bit) cannot represent.
MCA_WORD=0
_mca_word() {
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ _mca_word() {
#
# Searching for the squashfs magic instead would not be: the runtime carries a
# copy of it in its own code. Neither is the AppImage magic at byte 8 of the
# ELF header a way in - it is there to be zeroed, and a build pipeline that
# ELF header a way in. It is there to be zeroed, and a build pipeline that
# does not want its image picked up by a desktop integration daemon does
# exactly that. So the offset is computed for any ELF at all and the caller
# finds out whether there is an image at it.
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ _mca_inflate() {
1)
# squashfs stores a zlib stream and gzip only reads its own
# container, but underneath both are the same deflate data with a
# different wrapper around it - so the wrapper is swapped: zlib's
# different wrapper around it. So the wrapper is swapped: zlib's
# two header bytes are dropped and a minimal gzip header put in
# front. gzip then writes every byte of the block and complains
# about the trailer it did not get, which is why its status is
@@ -734,10 +734,10 @@ _mca_inflate() {
# describe them, and a name is all the caller is looking for.
#
# Fails unless the walk lands exactly on the end of the table. That is the
# integrity check - the block sizes adding up to the table's own length is
# what says the fields were read from a real superblock and that the output is
# the whole of the names rather than some of them - and it is why the caller
# has to collect this before trusting it, never pipe it.
# integrity check: the block sizes adding up to the table's own length is what
# says the fields were read from a real superblock, and that the output is the
# whole of the names rather than some of them. It is also why the caller has
# to collect this before trusting it, never pipe it.
_mca_squashfs_names() {
local file="$1" base="$2"
local comp dir_start end field header size pos
@@ -750,9 +750,9 @@ _mca_squashfs_names() {
(( dir_start > 0 )) || return 1
# Where the names stop: the first table squashfs writes after them. Which
# one that is depends on the image - there is no fragment table when
# one that is depends on the image. There is no fragment table when
# nothing was packed into a fragment, and no export table unless it was
# asked for - so they are tried in the order they are written and the
# asked for. So they are tried in the order they are written and the
# first one that is actually there wins. bytes_used closes the list for an
# image that has none of them.
end=0
@@ -815,14 +815,14 @@ _mca_appimage_verdict() {
&& MCA_BYTES[2] == 113 && MCA_BYTES[3] == 115 )) || return 0
# From here on there is an image, so the worst this can end on is "cannot
# tell" - never "no", which would be an answer about contents that were
# tell". Never "no", which would be an answer about contents that were
# never read.
MCA_APPIMAGE=unknown
names="$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/mca-names.XXXXXX")" || return 0
# Nothing at all in the table means every block failed to inflate - a
# compressor whose tool is not installed - which is a "cannot tell" too.
# Nothing at all in the table means every block failed to inflate (a
# compressor whose tool is not installed). That is a "cannot tell" too.
if _mca_squashfs_names "$file" "$base" > "$names" 2>/dev/null \
&& [[ -s $names ]]
then
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ mca_detect_verdict() {
# mca_is_chromium <program>
# Succeeds when the program is a Chromium, CEF or Electron process. "Cannot
# tell" is not that, so it fails here - anything that has to treat the two
# tell" is not that, so it fails here. Anything that has to treat the two
# differently asks mca_detect_verdict instead.
mca_is_chromium() {
mca_detect_verdict "$1"
@@ -931,13 +931,13 @@ _mca_detect_uncached() {
fi
# A binary. Everything Chromium ships is unpacked next to it, either in the
# same directory or - for /opt/thing/bin/Thing layouts - one level up.
# same directory or (for /opt/thing/bin/Thing layouts) one level up.
dir="$(dirname -- "$real")"
_mca_has_markers "$dir" && return 0
[[ ${dir##*/} == bin ]] && _mca_has_markers "${dir%/*}" && return 0
# An AppImage keeps all of that inside a filesystem appended to itself, so
# there is nothing next to the binary to find - but the names of everything
# there is nothing next to the binary to find. But the names of everything
# in there can be read, and that settles it either way.
_mca_appimage_verdict "$real"
case "$MCA_APPIMAGE" in
@@ -950,8 +950,8 @@ _mca_detect_uncached() {
grep -qaFm1 -- 'enable-blink-features' "$real" 2>/dev/null && return 0
grep -qaFm1 -- 'CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA' "$real" 2>/dev/null && return 0
# What is left is an image that could not be read - an unsupported
# compressor - or the older AppImage layout, which is an ISO9660 filesystem
# What is left is an image that could not be read (an unsupported
# compressor) or the older AppImage layout, which is an ISO9660 filesystem
# and has no name table of this shape at all. Either way the answer is not
# "no", it is "nobody looked".
if [[ $MCA_APPIMAGE == unknown || $real == *.AppImage || $real == *.appimage ]]; then
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ mca_scan() {
MCA_PACKAGING=()
# Pass one: read the entries and work out what each of them starts. No
# detection yet - that needs a stat per program, and those are collected so
# detection yet: that needs a stat per program, and those are collected so
# they can be asked for all at once.
while IFS= read -r dir; do
[[ -d $dir ]] || continue
@@ -1031,8 +1031,8 @@ mca_scan() {
fi
# The shortcuts Steam writes for single games are not
# applications of their own - a game is whatever engine it was
# built with, and none of those reads a Chromium argument - and
# applications of their own. A game is whatever engine it was
# built with, and none of those reads a Chromium argument. And
# starting the client through one needs nothing on its command
# line either.
mca_exec_is_steam_link "$exec_line" "$prog" && continue
@@ -1047,8 +1047,8 @@ mca_scan() {
MCA_STAT=()
_mca_stat_batch "${c_stat[@]}"
# Pass two: decide what each one is. What it does - an application or a
# browser - and how it was packaged are two separate questions: a Chromium
# Pass two: decide what each one is. What it does (an application or a
# browser) and how it was packaged are two separate questions: a Chromium
# installed as a snap is still a browser, and somebody who has turned
# browsers off means that one too.
for i in "${!c_ids[@]}"; do
@@ -1131,8 +1131,8 @@ mca_desktop_is_browser() {
}
# mca_snap_name <program>
# The snap an executable belongs to, left in MCA_PROG - assigned rather than
# printed for the same reason mca_exec_program is: the scan asks this about
# The snap an executable belongs to, left in MCA_PROG. It is assigned rather
# than printed for the same reason mca_exec_program is: the scan asks this about
# every desktop entry on the system, and a command substitution per entry is a
# fork per entry.
#