This generates a warning of irrefutable patterns. I decided to slightly
tweak the example so the closure returns unit, since the intent wasn't
to show the weird behavior of returning `!`.
Update `catch_unwind` doc comments for `c_unwind`
Updates `catch_unwind` doc comments to indicate that catching a foreign exception _will no longer_ be UB. Instead, there are two possible behaviors, though it is not specified which one an implementation will choose.
Nominated for t-lang to confirm that they are okay with making such a promise based on t-opsem FCP, or whether they would like to be included in the FCP.
Related: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74990, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/115285, https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/pull/1226
If another thread calls `set_backtrace_style` while a `get_backtrace_style` is reading the environment variables, `get_backtrace_style` will overwrite the value. Use an atomic CAS to avoid this.
Closes#118009
This commit adds unwind safety to Condvar. Previously, only select
platforms implemented unwind safety through auto traits. Known by this
committer: Linux was unwind safe, but Mac and Windows are not before
this change.
Fix may not to appropriate might not or must not
I went through and changed occurrences of `may not` to be more explicit with `might not` and `must not`.
Do not allocate or unwind after fork
### Objective scenarios
* Make (simple) panics safe in `Command::pre_exec_hook`, including most `panic!` calls, `Option::unwrap`, and array bounds check failures.
* Make it possible to `libc::fork` and then safely panic in the child (needed for the above, but this requirement means exposing the new raw hook API which the `Command` implementation needs).
* In singlethreaded programs, where panic in `pre_exec_hook` is already memory-safe, prevent the double-unwinding malfunction #79740.
I think we want to make panic after fork safe even though the post-fork child environment is only experienced by users of `unsafe`, beause the subset of Rust in which any panic is UB is really far too hazardous and unnatural.
#### Approach
* Provide a way for a program to, at runtime, switch to having panics abort. This makes it possible to panic without making *any* heap allocations, which is needed because on some platforms malloc is UB in a child forked from a multithreaded program (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/80263#issuecomment-774272370, and maybe also the SuS [spec](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fork.html)).
* Make that change in the child spawned by `Command`.
* Document the rules comprehensively enough that a programmer has a fighting chance of writing correct code.
* Test that this all works as expected (and in particular, that there aren't any heap allocations we missed)
Fixes#79740
#### Rejected (or previously attempted) approaches
* Change the panic machinery to be able to unwind without allocating, at least when the payload and message are both `'static`. This seems like it would be even more subtle. Also that is a potentially-hot path which I don't want to mess with.
* Change the existing panic hook mechanism to not convert the message to a `String` before calling the hook. This would be a surprising change for existing code and would not be detected by the type system.
* Provide a `raw_panic_hook` function to intercept panics in a way that doesn't allocate. (That was an earlier version of this MR.)
### History
This MR could be considered a v2 of #80263. Thanks to everyone who commented there. In particular, thanks to `@m-ou-se,` `@Mark-Simulacrum` and `@hyd-dev.` (Tagging you since I think you might be interested in this new MR.) Compared to #80263, this MR has very substantial changes and additions.
Additionally, I have recently (2021-04-20) completely revised this series following very helpful comments from `@m-ou-se.`
r? `@m-ou-se`
