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authorJack O'Connor <oconnor663@gmail.com>2017-02-03 17:39:41 -0500
committerJack O'Connor <oconnor663@gmail.com>2017-02-06 23:04:47 -0500
commit2a345bbcc1e6332241883f784896ea93d2a7ccb3 (patch)
tree42aa5e90e250c126c2d34cb24e487a461aa20ec6 /src/libstd/sys/redox
parentc49d10207a7e105525fb3bd71c18fde6fc2f5aed (diff)
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make Child::try_wait return io::Result<Option<ExitStatus>>
This is much nicer for callers who want to short-circuit real I/O errors
with `?`, because they can write this

    if let Some(status) = foo.try_wait()? {
        ...
    } else {
        ...
    }

instead of this

    match foo.try_wait() {
        Ok(status) => {
            ...
        }
        Err(err) if err.kind() == io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock => {
            ...
        }
        Err(err) => return Err(err),
    }

The original design of `try_wait` was patterned after the `Read` and
`Write` traits, which support both blocking and non-blocking
implementations in a single API. But since `try_wait` is never blocking,
it makes sense to optimize for the non-blocking case.

Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/38903
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstd/sys/redox')
-rw-r--r--src/libstd/sys/redox/process.rs8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/redox/process.rs b/src/libstd/sys/redox/process.rs
index 50dcd44b42e..60dc03fcf47 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/redox/process.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/redox/process.rs
@@ -502,17 +502,17 @@ impl Process {
         Ok(ExitStatus(status as i32))
     }
 
-    pub fn try_wait(&mut self) -> io::Result<ExitStatus> {
+    pub fn try_wait(&mut self) -> io::Result<Option<ExitStatus>> {
         if let Some(status) = self.status {
-            return Ok(status)
+            return Ok(Some(status))
         }
         let mut status = 0;
         let pid = cvt(syscall::waitpid(self.pid, &mut status, syscall::WNOHANG))?;
         if pid == 0 {
-            Err(io::Error::from_raw_os_error(syscall::EWOULDBLOCK))
+            Ok(None)
         } else {
             self.status = Some(ExitStatus(status as i32));
-            Ok(ExitStatus(status as i32))
+            Ok(Some(ExitStatus(status as i32)))
         }
     }
 }