Add documentation to more `From::from` implementations.
For users looking at documentation through IDE popups, this gives them relevant information rather than the generic trait documentation wording “Performs the conversion”. For users reading the documentation for a specific type for any reason, this informs them when the conversion may allocate or copy significant memory versus when it is always a move or cheap copy.
Notes on specific cases:
* The new documentation for `From<T> for T` explains that it is not a conversion at all.
* Also documented `impl<T, U> Into<U> for T where U: From<T>`, the other central blanket implementation of conversion.
* The new documentation for construction of maps and sets from arrays of keys mentions the handling of duplicates. Future work could be to do this for *all* code paths that convert an iterable to a map or set.
* I did not add documentation to conversions of a specific error type to a more general error type.
* I did not add documentation to unstable code.
This change was prepared by searching for the text "From<... for" and so may have missed some cases that for whatever reason did not match. I also looked for `Into` impls but did not find any worth documenting by the above criteria.
Implement most of RFC 2930, providing the ReadBuf abstraction
This replaces the `Initializer` abstraction for permitting reading into uninitialized buffers, closing #42788.
This leaves several APIs described in the RFC out of scope for the initial implementation:
* read_buf_vectored
* `ReadBufs`
Closes#42788, by removing the relevant APIs.
For users looking at documentation through IDE popups, this gives them
relevant information rather than the generic trait documentation wording
“Performs the conversion”. For users reading the documentation for a
specific type for any reason, this informs them when the conversion may
allocate or copy significant memory versus when it is always a move or
cheap copy.
Notes on specific cases:
* The new documentation for `From<T> for T` explains that it is not a
conversion at all.
* Also documented `impl<T, U> Into<U> for T where U: From<T>`, the other
central blanket implementation of conversion.
* I did not add documentation to conversions of a specific error type to
a more general error type.
* I did not add documentation to unstable code.
This change was prepared by searching for the text "From<... for" and so
may have missed some cases that for whatever reason did not match. I
also looked for `Into` impls but did not find any worth documenting by
the above criteria.
As discussed here
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/88300#issuecomment-936097710
I felt this was the best place to put this (rather than next to
ExitStatusExt). After all, it's a property of the ExitStatus type on
Unix.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Background:
Over the last year, pidfd support was added to the Linux kernel. This
allows interacting with other processes. In particular, this allows
waiting on a child process with a timeout in a race-free way, bypassing
all of the awful signal-handler tricks that are usually required.
Pidfds can be obtained for a child process (as well as any other
process) via the `pidfd_open` syscall. Unfortunately, this requires
several conditions to hold in order to be race-free (i.e. the pid is not
reused).
Per `man pidfd_open`:
```
· the disposition of SIGCHLD has not been explicitly set to SIG_IGN
(see sigaction(2));
· the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag was not specified while establishing a han‐
dler for SIGCHLD or while setting the disposition of that signal to
SIG_DFL (see sigaction(2)); and
· the zombie process was not reaped elsewhere in the program (e.g.,
either by an asynchronously executed signal handler or by wait(2)
or similar in another thread).
If any of these conditions does not hold, then the child process
(along with a PID file descriptor that refers to it) should instead
be created using clone(2) with the CLONE_PIDFD flag.
```
Sadly, these conditions are impossible to guarantee once any libraries
are used. For example, C code runnng in a different thread could call
`wait()`, which is impossible to detect from Rust code trying to open a
pidfd.
While pid reuse issues should (hopefully) be rare in practice, we can do
better. By passing the `CLONE_PIDFD` flag to `clone()` or `clone3()`, we
can obtain a pidfd for the child process in a guaranteed race-free
manner.
This PR:
This PR adds Linux-specific process extension methods to allow obtaining
pidfds for processes spawned via the standard `Command` API. Other than
being made available to user code, the standard library does not make
use of these pidfds in any way. In particular, the implementation of
`Child::wait` is completely unchanged.
Two Linux-specific helper methods are added: `CommandExt::create_pidfd`
and `ChildExt::pidfd`. These methods are intended to serve as a building
block for libraries to build higher-level abstractions - in particular,
waiting on a process with a timeout.
I've included a basic test, which verifies that pidfds are created iff
the `create_pidfd` method is used. This test is somewhat special - it
should always succeed on systems with the `clone3` system call
available, and always fail on systems without `clone3` available. I'm
not sure how to best ensure this programatically.
This PR relies on the newer `clone3` system call to pass the `CLONE_FD`,
rather than the older `clone` system call. `clone3` was added to Linux
in the same release as pidfds, so this shouldn't unnecessarily limit the
kernel versions that this code supports.
Unresolved questions:
* What should the name of the feature gate be for these newly added
methods?
* Should the `pidfd` method distinguish between an error occurring
and `create_pidfd` not being called?
In the docs for intrinsics::abort():
* Strengthen the recommendation by to use process::abort instead.
* Document the fact that it (ab)uses an LLVM debug trap and what the
likely consequences are.
* State that the precise behaviour is unstable.
In the docs for process::abort():
* Promise that we have the same behaviour as C `abort()`.
* Document the likely consequences, including, specifically, the
consequences on Unix.
In the internal comment for unix::abort_internal:
* Refer to the public docs for the public API functions.
* Correct and expand the description of libc::abort. Specifically:
* Do not claim that abort() unregisters signal handlers. It doesn't;
it honours the SIGABRT handler.
* Discuss, extensively, the issue with abort() flushing stdio buffers.
* Describe the glibc behaviour in some detail.
Co-authored-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Remove & from Command::args calls in documentation
Now that arrays implement `IntoIterator`, using `&` is no longer necessary. This makes examples easier to understand.
Redefine `ErrorKind::Other` and stop using it in std.
This implements the idea I shared yesterday in the libs meeting when we were discussing how to handle adding new `ErrorKind`s to the standard library: This redefines `Other` to be for *user defined errors only*, and changes all uses of `Other` in the standard library to a `#[doc(hidden)]` and permanently `#[unstable]` `ErrorKind` that users can not match on. This ensures that adding `ErrorKind`s at a later point in time is not a breaking change, since the user couldn't match on these errors anyway. This way, we use the `#[non_exhaustive]` property of the enum in a more effective way.
Open questions:
- How do we check this change doesn't cause too much breakage? Will a crate run help and be enough?
- How do we ensure we don't accidentally start using `Other` again in the standard library? We don't have a `pub(not crate)` or `#[deprecated(in this crate only)]`.
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79965
cc `@rust-lang/libs` `@ijackson`
r? `@dtolnay`
It is unergnomic to have to say things like
bad.into_status().signal()
Implementing `ExitStatusExt` for `ExitStatusError` fixes this.
Unfortunately it does mean making a previously-infallible method
capable of panicing, although of course the existing impl remains
infallible.
The alternative would be a whole new `ExitStatusErrorExt` trait.
`<ExitStatus as ExitStatusExt>::into_raw()` is not particularly
ergonomic to call because of the often-required type annotation.
See for example the code in the test case in
library/std/src/sys/unix/process/process_unix/tests.rs
Perhaps we should provide equivalent free functions for `ExitStatus`
and `ExitStatusExt` in std::os::unix::process and maybe deprecate this
trait method. But I think that is for the future.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Closes#73125
This is in pursuance of
Issue #73127 Consider adding #[must_use] to std::process::ExitStatus
In
MR #81452 Add #[must_use] to [...] process::ExitStatus
we concluded that the existing arrangements in are too awkward
so adding that #[must_use] is blocked on improving the ergonomics.
I wrote a mini-RFC-style discusion of the approach in
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73125#issuecomment-771092741
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Demonstrate best practice for feeding stdin of a child processes
Documentation change.
It's possible to create a deadlock with stdin/stdout I/O on a single thread:
* the child process may fill its stdout buffer, and have to wait for the parent process to read it,
* but the parent process may be waiting until its stdin write finishes before reading the stdout.
Therefore, the parent process should use separate threads for writing and reading.
These examples are not deadlocking in practice, because they use short strings, but I think it's better to demonstrate code that works even for long writes. The problem is non-obvious and tricky to debug (it seems that even libstd has a similar issue: #45572).
This also demonstrates how to use stdio with threads: it's not obvious that `.take()` can be used to avoid fighting with the borrow checker.
I've checked that the modified examples run fine.
It's possible to create a deadlock with stdin/stdout I/O on a single thread:
* the child process may fill its stdout buffer, and have to wait for the parent process to read it,
* but the parent process may be waiting until its stdin write finishes before reading the stdout.
Therefore, the parent process should use separate threads for writing and reading.
The use of `ExitStatus` as the Rust type name for a Unix *wait
status*, not an *exit status*, is very confusing, but sadly probably
too late to change.
This area is confusing enough in Unix already (and many programmers
are already confuxed). We can at least document it.
I chose *not* to mention the way shells like to exit with signal
numbers, thus turning signal numbers into exit statuses. This is only
relevant for Rust programs using `std::process` if they run shells.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Drop support for all cloudabi targets
`cloudabi` is a tier-3 target, and [it is no longer being maintained upstream][no].
This PR drops supports for cloudabi targets. Those targets are:
* aarch64-unknown-cloudabi
* armv7-unknown-cloudabi
* i686-unknown-cloudabi
* x86_64-unknown-cloudabi
Since this drops supports for a target, I'd like somebody to tag `relnotes` label to this PR.
Some other issues:
* The tidy exception for `cloudabi` crate is still remained because
* `parking_lot v0.9.0` and `parking_lot v0.10.2` depends on `cloudabi v0.0.3`.
* `parking_lot v0.11.0` depends on `cloudabi v0.1.0`.
[no]: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi#note-this-project-is-unmaintained
