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This functionality has lived for a while in the tokio ecosystem, where
it can improve performance by minimizing copies.
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This commit deletes the `alloc_system` crate from the standard
distribution. This unstable crate is no longer needed in the modern
stable global allocator world, but rather its functionality is folded
directly into the standard library. The standard library was already the
only stable location to access this crate, and as a result this should
not affect any stable code.
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As discussed in #47268, libstd isn't ready to have certain functionality
disabled yet. Follow wasm's approach of adding no-op modules for all of
the features that we can't implement.
I've placed all of those shims in a shims/ subdirectory, so we (the
CloudABI folks) can experiment with removing them more easily. It also
ensures that the code that does work doesn't get polluted with lots of
useless boilerplate code.
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Though CloudABI is strongly inspired by POSIX, its absence of features
that don't work well with capability-based sandboxing makes it different
enough that adding bits to sys/unix will make things a mess. This change
therefore adds CloudABI specific platform code under sys/cloudabi and
borrows parts from sys/unix that can be used without changes.
One of the goals of this implementation is to build as much as possible
directly on top of CloudABI's system call layer, as opposed to using the
C library. This is preferred, as the system call layer is supposed to be
stable, whereas the C library ABI technically is not. An advantage of
this approach is that it allows us to implement certain interfaces, such
as mutexes and condition variables more optimally. They can be lighter
than the ones provided by pthreads.
This change disables some modules that cannot realistically be
implemented right now. For example, libstd's pathname abstraction is not
designed with POSIX *at() (e.g., openat()) in mind. The *at() functions
are the only set of file system APIs available on CloudABI. There is no
global file system namespace, nor a process working directory.
Discussions on how to port these modules over are outside the scope of
this change.
Apart from this change, there are still some other minor fixups that
need to be made to platform independent code to make things build. These
will be sent out separately, so they can be reviewed more thoroughly.
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