Consistently present absent stdio handles on Windows as NULL handles.
This addresses #90964 by making the std API consistent about presenting
absent stdio handles on Windows as NULL handles. Stdio handles may be
absent due to `#![windows_subsystem = "windows"]`, due to the console
being detached, or due to a child process having been launched from a
parent where stdio handles are absent.
Specifically, this fixes the case of child processes of parents with absent
stdio, which previously ended up with `stdin().as_raw_handle()` returning
`INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE`, which was surprising, and which overlapped with an
unrelated valid handle value. With this patch, `stdin().as_raw_handle()`
now returns null in these situation, which is consistent with what it
does in the parent process.
And, document this in the "Windows Portability Considerations" sections of
the relevant documentation.
This updates the standard library's documentation to use the new syntax. The
documentation is worthwhile to update as it should be more idiomatic
(particularly for features like this, which are nice for users to get acquainted
with). The general codebase is likely more hassle than benefit to update: it'll
hurt git blame, and generally updates can be done by folks updating the code if
(and when) that makes things more readable with the new format.
A few places in the compiler and library code are updated (mostly just due to
already having been done when this commit was first authored).
This addresses #90964 by making the std API consistent about presenting
absent stdio handles on Windows as NULL handles. Stdio handles may be
absent due to `#![windows_subsystem = "windows"]`, due to the console
being detached, or due to a child process having been launched from a
parent where stdio handles are absent.
Specifically, this fixes the case of child processes of parents with absent
stdio, which previously ended up with `stdin().as_raw_handle()` returning
`INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE`, which was surprising, and which overlapped with an
unrelated valid handle value. With this patch, `stdin().as_raw_handle()`
now returns null in these situation, which is consistent with what it
does in the parent process.
And, document this in the "Windows Portability Considerations" sections of
the relevant documentation.
The unifying theme for this commit is weak, admittedly. I put together a
list of "expensive" functions when I originally proposed this whole
effort, but nobody's cared about that criterion. Still, it's a decent
way to bite off a not-too-big chunk of work.
Given the grab bag nature of this commit, the messages I used vary quite
a bit.
Add forwarder methods `Stdin::lines` and `Stdin::split`, which consume
and lock a `Stdin` handle, and forward on to the corresponding `BufRead`
methods. This should make it easier for beginners to use those iterator
constructors without explicitly dealing with locks or lifetimes.
Add stderr_locked, stdin_locked, and stdout_locked free functions
to obtain owned locked stdio handles in a single step. Also add
into_lock methods to consume a stdio handle and return an owned
lock. These methods will make it easier to use locked stdio
handles without having to deal with lifetime problems or keeping
bindings to the unlocked handles around.
The code in io::stdio before this change misused the ReentrantMutexes,
by calling init() on them and moving them afterwards. Now that
ReentrantMutex requires Pin for init(), this mistake is no longer easy
to make.
Simplify output capturing
This is a sequence of incremental improvements to the unstable/internal `set_panic` and `set_print` mechanism used by the `test` crate:
1. Remove the `LocalOutput` trait and use `Arc<Mutex<dyn Write>>` instead of `Box<dyn LocalOutput>`. In practice, all implementations of `LocalOutput` were just `Arc<Mutex<..>>`. This simplifies some logic and removes all custom `Sink` implementations such as `library/test/src/helpers/sink.rs`. Also removes a layer of indirection, as the outermost `Box` is now gone. It also means that locking now happens per `write_fmt`, not per individual `write` within. (So `"{} {}\n"` now results in one `lock()`, not four or more.)
2. Since in all cases the `dyn Write`s were just `Vec<u8>`s, replace the type with `Arc<Mutex<Vec<u8>>>`. This simplifies things more, as error handling and flushing can be removed now. This also removes the hack needed in the default panic handler to make this work with `::realstd`, as (unlike `Write`) `Vec<u8>` is from `alloc`, not `std`.
3. Replace the `RefCell`s by regular `Cell`s. The `RefCell`s were mostly used as `mem::replace(&mut *cell.borrow_mut(), something)`, which is just `Cell::replace`. This removes an unecessary bookkeeping and makes the code a bit easier to read.
4. Merge `set_panic` and `set_print` into a single `set_output_capture`. Neither the test crate nor rustc (the only users of this feature) have a use for using these separately. Merging them simplifies things even more. This uses a new function name and feature name, to make it clearer this is internal and not supposed to be used by other crates.
Might be easier to review per commit.
specialize io::copy to use copy_file_range, splice or sendfile
Fixes#74426.
Also covers #60689 but only as an optimization instead of an official API.
The specialization only covers std-owned structs so it should avoid the problems with #71091
Currently linux-only but it should be generalizable to other unix systems that have sendfile/sosplice and similar.
There is a bit of optimization potential around the syscall count. Right now it may end up doing more syscalls than the naive copy loop when doing short (<8KiB) copies between file descriptors.
The test case executes the following:
```
[pid 103776] statx(3, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=17, ...}) = 0
[pid 103776] write(4, "wxyz", 4) = 4
[pid 103776] write(4, "iklmn", 5) = 5
[pid 103776] copy_file_range(3, NULL, 4, NULL, 5, 0) = 5
```
0-1 `stat` calls to identify the source file type. 0 if the type can be inferred from the struct from which the FD was extracted
𝖬 `write` to drain the `BufReader`/`BufWriter` wrappers. only happen when buffers are present. 𝖬 ≾ number of wrappers present. If there is a write buffer it may absorb the read buffer contents first so only result in a single write. Vectored writes would also be an option but that would require more invasive changes to `BufWriter`.
𝖭 `copy_file_range`/`splice`/`sendfile` until file size, EOF or the byte limit from `Take` is reached. This should generally be *much* more efficient than the read-write loop and also have other benefits such as DMA offload or extent sharing.
## Benchmarks
```
OLD
test io::tests::bench_file_to_file_copy ... bench: 21,002 ns/iter (+/- 750) = 6240 MB/s [ext4]
test io::tests::bench_file_to_file_copy ... bench: 35,704 ns/iter (+/- 1,108) = 3671 MB/s [btrfs]
test io::tests::bench_file_to_socket_copy ... bench: 57,002 ns/iter (+/- 4,205) = 2299 MB/s
test io::tests::bench_socket_pipe_socket_copy ... bench: 142,640 ns/iter (+/- 77,851) = 918 MB/s
NEW
test io::tests::bench_file_to_file_copy ... bench: 14,745 ns/iter (+/- 519) = 8889 MB/s [ext4]
test io::tests::bench_file_to_file_copy ... bench: 6,128 ns/iter (+/- 227) = 21389 MB/s [btrfs]
test io::tests::bench_file_to_socket_copy ... bench: 13,767 ns/iter (+/- 3,767) = 9520 MB/s
test io::tests::bench_socket_pipe_socket_copy ... bench: 26,471 ns/iter (+/- 6,412) = 4951 MB/s
```
It was only ever used with Vec<u8> anyway. This simplifies some things.
- It no longer needs to be flushed, because that's a no-op anyway for
a Vec<u8>.
- Writing to a Vec<u8> never fails.
- No #[cfg(test)] code is needed anymore to use `realstd` instead of
`std`, because Vec comes from alloc, not std (like Write).
The thread local LOCAL_STDOUT and LOCAL_STDERR are only used by the test
crate to capture output from tests when running them in the same process
in differen threads. However, every program will check these variables
on every print, even outside of testing.
This involves allocating a thread local key, and registering a thread
local destructor. This can be somewhat expensive.
This change keeps a global flag (LOCAL_STREAMS) which will be set to
true when either of these local streams is used. (So, effectively only
in test and benchmark runs.) When this flag is off, these thread locals
are not even looked at and therefore will not be initialized on the
first output on every thread, which also means no thread local
destructors will be registered.
Remove std::io::lazy::Lazy in favour of SyncOnceCell
The (internal) std::io::lazy::Lazy was used to lazily initialize the stdout and stdin buffers (and mutexes). It uses atexit() to register a destructor to flush the streams on exit, and mark the streams as 'closed'. Using the stream afterwards would result in a panic.
Stdout uses a LineWriter which contains a BufWriter that will flush the buffer on drop. This one is important to be executed during shutdown, to make sure no buffered output is lost. It also forbids access to stdout afterwards, since the buffer is already flushed and gone.
Stdin uses a BufReader, which does not implement Drop. It simply forgets any previously read data that was not read from the buffer yet. This means that in the case of stdin, the atexit() function's only effect is making stdin inaccessible to the program, such that later accesses result in a panic. This is uncessary, as it'd have been safe to access stdin during shutdown of the program.
---
This change removes the entire io::lazy module in favour of SyncOnceCell. SyncOnceCell's fast path is much faster (a single atomic operation) than locking a sys_common::Mutex on every access like Lazy did.
However, SyncOnceCell does not use atexit() to drop the contained object during shutdown.
As noted above, this is not a problem for stdin. It simply means stdin is now usable during shutdown.
The atexit() call for stdout is moved to the stdio module. Unlike the now-removed Lazy struct, SyncOnceCell does not have a 'gone and unusable' state that panics. Instead of adding this again, this simply replaces the buffer with one with zero capacity. This effectively flushes the old buffer *and* makes any writes afterwards pass through directly without touching a buffer, making print!() available during shutdown without panicking.
---
In addition, because the contents of the SyncOnceCell are no longer dropped, we can now use `&'static` instead of `Arc` in `Stdout` and `Stdin`. This also saves two levels of indirection in `stdin()` and `stdout()`, since Lazy effectively stored a `Box<Arc<T>>`, and SyncOnceCell stores the `T` directly.
The (internal) std::io::lazy::Lazy was used to lazily initialize the
stdout and stdin buffers (and mutexes). It uses atexit() to register a
destructor to flush the streams on exit, and mark the streams as
'closed'. Using the stream afterwards would result in a panic.
Stdout uses a LineWriter which contains a BufWriter that will flush the
buffer on drop. This one is important to be executed during shutdown,
to make sure no buffered output is lost. It also forbids access to
stdout afterwards, since the buffer is already flushed and gone.
Stdin uses a BufReader, which does not implement Drop. It simply forgets
any previously read data that was not read from the buffer yet. This
means that in the case of stdin, the atexit() function's only effect is
making stdin inaccessible to the program, such that later accesses
result in a panic. This is uncessary, as it'd have been safe to access
stdin during shutdown of the program.
---
This change removes the entire io::lazy module in favour of
SyncOnceCell. SyncOnceCell's fast path is much faster (a single atomic
operation) than locking a sys_common::Mutex on every access like Lazy
did.
However, SyncOnceCell does not use atexit() to drop the contained object
during shutdown.
As noted above, this is not a problem for stdin. It simply means stdin
is now usable during shutdown.
The atexit() call for stdout is moved to the stdio module. Unlike the
now-removed Lazy struct, SyncOnceCell does not have a 'gone and
unusable' state that panics. Instead of adding this again, this simply
replaces the buffer with one with zero capacity. This effectively
flushes the old buffer *and* makes any writes afterwards pass through
directly without touching a buffer, making print!() available during
shutdown without panicking.
