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2014-05-13io: Implement process wait timeoutsAlex Crichton-149/+0
This implements set_timeout() for std::io::Process which will affect wait() operations on the process. This follows the same pattern as the rest of the timeouts emerging in std::io::net. The implementation was super easy for everything except libnative on unix (backwards from usual!), which required a good bit of signal handling. There's a doc comment explaining the strategy in libnative. Internally, this also required refactoring the "helper thread" implementation used by libnative to allow for an extra helper thread (not just the timer). This is a breaking change in terms of the io::Process API. It is now possible for wait() to fail, and subsequently wait_with_output(). These two functions now return IoResult<T> due to the fact that they can time out. Additionally, the wait_with_output() function has moved from taking `&mut self` to taking `self`. If a timeout occurs while waiting with output, the semantics are undesirable in almost all cases if attempting to re-wait on the process. Equivalent functionality can still be achieved by dealing with the output handles manually. [breaking-change] cc #13523
2014-05-11core: Remove the cast moduleAlex Crichton-3/+3
This commit revisits the `cast` module in libcore and libstd, and scrutinizes all functions inside of it. The result was to remove the `cast` module entirely, folding all functionality into the `mem` module. Specifically, this is the fate of each function in the `cast` module. * transmute - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is now marked as #[unstable]. This is due to planned changes to the `transmute` function and how it can be invoked (see the #[unstable] comment). For more information, see RFC 5 and #12898 * transmute_copy - This function was moved to `mem`, with clarification that is is not an error to invoke it with T/U that are different sizes, but rather that it is strongly discouraged. This function is now #[stable] * forget - This function was moved to `mem` and marked #[stable] * bump_box_refcount - This function was removed due to the deprecation of managed boxes as well as its questionable utility. * transmute_mut - This function was previously deprecated, and removed as part of this commit. * transmute_mut_unsafe - This function doesn't serve much of a purpose when it can be achieved with an `as` in safe code, so it was removed. * transmute_lifetime - This function was removed because it is likely a strong indication that code is incorrect in the first place. * transmute_mut_lifetime - This function was removed for the same reasons as `transmute_lifetime` * copy_lifetime - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is marked `#[unstable]` now due to the likelihood of being removed in the future if it is found to not be very useful. * copy_mut_lifetime - This function was also moved to `mem`, but had the same treatment as `copy_lifetime`. * copy_lifetime_vec - This function was removed because it is not used today, and its existence is not necessary with DST (copy_lifetime will suffice). In summary, the cast module was stripped down to these functions, and then the functions were moved to the `mem` module. transmute - #[unstable] transmute_copy - #[stable] forget - #[stable] copy_lifetime - #[unstable] copy_mut_lifetime - #[unstable] [breaking-change]
2014-05-06librustc: Remove `~EXPR`, `~TYPE`, and `~PAT` from the language, exceptPatrick Walton-1/+1
for `~str`/`~[]`. Note that `~self` still remains, since I forgot to add support for `Box<self>` before the snapshot. How to update your code: * Instead of `~EXPR`, you should write `box EXPR`. * Instead of `~TYPE`, you should write `Box<Type>`. * Instead of `~PATTERN`, you should write `box PATTERN`. [breaking-change]
2014-05-02Replace most ~exprs with 'box'. #11779Brian Anderson-1/+1
2014-04-04Fix fallout from std::libc separationCorey Richardson-3/+3
2014-03-23std: Move NativeMutex from &mut self to &selfAlex Crichton-1/+1
The proper usage of shared types is now sharing through `&self` rather than `&mut self` because the mutable version will provide stronger guarantees (no aliasing on *any* thread).
2014-03-13std: Rename Chan/Port types and constructorAlex Crichton-8/+8
* Chan<T> => Sender<T> * Port<T> => Receiver<T> * Chan::new() => channel() * constructor returns (Sender, Receiver) instead of (Receiver, Sender) * local variables named `port` renamed to `rx` * local variables named `chan` renamed to `tx` Closes #11765
2014-03-05std: Move libnative task count bookkeeping to stdAlex Crichton-1/+1
When using tasks in Rust, the expectation is that the runtime does not exit before all tasks have exited. This is enforced in libgreen through the `SchedPool` type, and it is enforced in libnative through a `bookkeeping` module and a global count/mutex pair. Unfortunately, this means that a process which originates with libgreen will not wait for spawned native tasks. In order to fix this problem, the bookkeeping module was moved from libnative to libstd so the runtime itself can wait for native tasks to exit. Green tasks do not manage themselves through this bookkeeping module, but native tasks will continue to manage themselves through this module. Closes #12684
2014-03-05native: Fix usage of a deallocated mutexAlex Crichton-10/+11
When the timer_helper thread exited, it would attempt to re-acquire the global task count mutex, but the mutex had previously been deallocated, leading to undefined behavior of the mutex, and in some cases deadlock. Another mutex is used to coordinate shutting down the timer helper thread. Closes #12699
2014-02-27native: Improve windows file handlingAlex Crichton-3/+0
This commit splits the file implementation into file_unix and file_win32. The two implementations have diverged to the point that they share almost 0 code at this point, so it's easier to maintain as separate files. The other major change accompanied with this commit is that file::open is no longer based on libc's open function on windows, but rather windows's CreateFile function. This fixes dealing with binary files on windows (test added in previous commit). This also changes the read/write functions to use ReadFile and WriteFile instead of libc's read/write. Closes #12406
2014-02-21Changed NonCamelCaseTypes lint to warn by defaultmr.Shu-1/+4
Added allow(non_camel_case_types) to librustc where necesary Tried to fix problems with non_camel_case_types outside rustc fixed failing tests Docs updated Moved #[allow(non_camel_case_types)] a level higher. markdown.rs reverted Fixed timer that was failing tests Fixed another timer
2014-02-16std: Rename unstable::mutex::Mutex to StaticNativeMutex.Huon Wilson-2/+2
This better reflects its purpose and design.
2014-02-16std: add an RAII unlocker to Mutex.Huon Wilson-2/+1
This automatically unlocks its lock when it goes out of scope, and provides a safe(ish) method to call .wait.
2014-02-11Rewrite channels yet again for upgradeabilityAlex Crichton-4/+6
This, the Nth rewrite of channels, is not a rewrite of the core logic behind channels, but rather their API usage. In the past, we had the distinction between oneshot, stream, and shared channels, but the most recent rewrite dropped oneshots in favor of streams and shared channels. This distinction of stream vs shared has shown that it's not quite what we'd like either, and this moves the `std::comm` module in the direction of "one channel to rule them all". There now remains only one Chan and one Port. This new channel is actually a hybrid oneshot/stream/shared channel under the hood in order to optimize for the use cases in question. Additionally, this also reduces the cognitive burden of having to choose between a Chan or a SharedChan in an API. My simple benchmarks show no reduction in efficiency over the existing channels today, and a 3x improvement in the oneshot case. I sadly don't have a pre-last-rewrite compiler to test out the old old oneshots, but I would imagine that the performance is comparable, but slightly slower (due to atomic reference counting). This commit also brings the bonus bugfix to channels that the pending queue of messages are all dropped when a Port disappears rather then when both the Port and the Chan disappear.
2014-02-03Various bug fixes and rebase conflictsAlex Crichton-4/+8
2014-02-03Fixing remaining warnings and errors throughoutAlex Crichton-2/+2
2014-01-29auto merge of #11754 : alexcrichton/rust/unused-result, r=brsonbors-1/+1
The general consensus is that we want to move away from conditions for I/O, and I propose a two-step plan for doing so: 1. Warn about unused `Result` types. When all of I/O returns `Result`, it will require you inspect the return value for an error *only if* you have a result you want to look at. By default, for things like `write` returning `Result<(), Error>`, these will all go silently ignored. This lint will prevent blind ignorance of these return values, letting you know that there's something you should do about them. 2. Implement a `try!` macro: ``` macro_rules! try( ($e:expr) => (match $e { Ok(e) => e, Err(e) => return Err(e) }) ) ``` With these two tools combined, I feel that we get almost all the benefits of conditions. The first step (the lint) is a sanity check that you're not ignoring return values at callsites. The second step is to provide a convenience method of returning early out of a sequence of computations. After thinking about this for awhile, I don't think that we need the so-called "do-notation" in the compiler itself because I think it's just *too* specialized. Additionally, the `try!` macro is super lightweight, easy to understand, and works almost everywhere. As soon as you want to do something more fancy, my answer is "use match". Basically, with these two tools in action, I would be comfortable removing conditions. What do others think about this strategy? ---- This PR specifically implements the `unused_result` lint. I actually added two lints, `unused_result` and `unused_must_use`, and the first commit has the rationale for why `unused_result` is turned off by default.
2014-01-29Flag Result as #[must_use] and deal with fallout.Alex Crichton-1/+1
2014-01-29Removing do keyword from libnativeScott Lawrence-2/+2
2014-01-22Implement native timersAlex Crichton-0/+143
Native timers are a much hairier thing to deal with than green timers due to the interface that we would like to expose (both a blocking sleep() and a channel-based interface). I ended up implementing timers in three different ways for the various platforms that we supports. In all three of the implementations, there is a worker thread which does send()s on channels for timers. This worker thread is initialized once and then communicated to in a platform-specific manner, but there's always a shared channel available for sending messages to the worker thread. * Windows - I decided to use windows kernel timer objects via CreateWaitableTimer and SetWaitableTimer in order to provide sleeping capabilities. The worker thread blocks via WaitForMultipleObjects where one of the objects is an event that is used to wake up the helper thread (which then drains the incoming message channel for requests). * Linux/(Android?) - These have the ideal interface for implementing timers, timerfd_create. Each timer corresponds to a timerfd, and the helper thread uses epoll to wait for all active timers and then send() for the next one that wakes up. The tricky part in this implementation is updating a timerfd, but see the implementation for the fun details * OSX/FreeBSD - These obviously don't have the windows APIs, and sadly don't have the timerfd api available to them, so I have thrown together a solution which uses select() plus a timeout in order to ad-hoc-ly implement a timer solution for threads. The implementation is backed by a sorted array of timers which need to fire. As I said, this is an ad-hoc solution which is certainly not accurate timing-wise. I have done this implementation due to the lack of other primitives to provide an implementation, and I've done it the best that I could, but I'm sure that there's room for improvement. I'm pretty happy with how these implementations turned out. In theory we could drop the timerfd implementation and have linux use the select() + timeout implementation, but it's so inaccurate that I would much rather continue to use timerfd rather than my ad-hoc select() implementation. The only change that I would make to the API in general is to have a generic sleep() method on an IoFactory which doesn't require allocating a Timer object. For everything but windows it's super-cheap to request a blocking sleep for a set amount of time, and it's probably worth it to provide a sleep() which doesn't do something like allocate a file descriptor on linux.