This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1288][rfc] which adds two new unstable
types to the `std::time` module. The `Instant` type is used to represent
measurements of a monotonically increasing clock suitable for measuring time
withing a process for operations such as benchmarks or just the elapsed time to
do something. An `Instant` favors panicking when bugs are found as the bugs are
programmer errors rather than typical errors that can be encountered.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1288
The `SystemTime` type is used to represent a system timestamp and is not
monotonic. Very few guarantees are provided about this measurement of the system
clock, but a fixed point in time (`UNIX_EPOCH`) is provided to learn about the
relative distance from this point for any particular time stamp.
This PR takes the same implementation strategy as the `time` crate on crates.io,
namely:
| Platform | Instant | SystemTime |
|------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| Windows | QueryPerformanceCounter | GetSystemTimeAsFileTime |
| OSX | mach_absolute_time | gettimeofday |
| Unix | CLOCK_MONOTONIC | CLOCK_REALTIME |
These implementations can perhaps be refined over time, but they currently
satisfy the requirements of the `Instant` and `SystemTime` types while also
being portable across implementations and revisions of each platform.
cc #29866
Leading equals symbols are treated as part of the variable name, if
there is no other equality symbol or none at all, the environment string
is ignored.
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1288][rfc] which adds two new unstable
types to the `std::time` module. The `Instant` type is used to represent
measurements of a monotonically increasing clock suitable for measuring time
withing a process for operations such as benchmarks or just the elapsed time to
do something. An `Instant` favors panicking when bugs are found as the bugs are
programmer errors rather than typical errors that can be encountered.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1288
The `SystemTime` type is used to represent a system timestamp and is not
monotonic. Very few guarantees are provided about this measurement of the system
clock, but a fixed point in time (`UNIX_EPOCH`) is provided to learn about the
relative distance from this point for any particular time stamp.
This PR takes the same implementation strategy as the `time` crate on crates.io,
namely:
| Platform | Instant | SystemTime |
|------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| Windows | QueryPerformanceCounter | GetSystemTimeAsFileTime |
| OSX | mach_absolute_time | gettimeofday |
| Unix | CLOCK_MONOTONIC | CLOCK_REALTIME |
These implementations can perhaps be refined over time, but they currently
satisfy the requirements of the `Instant` and `SystemTime` types while also
being portable across implementations and revisions of each platform.
Otherwise, the iterator and the functions for getting specific
environment variables might disagree, for environments like
FOOBAR
Variable names starting with equals sign are OK:
glibc only interprets equals signs not in the first position as
separators between variable name and variable value. Instead of skipping
them entirely, a leading equals sign is interpreted to be part of the
variable name.
* Delete `sys::unix::{c, sync}` as these are now all folded into libc itself
* Update all references to use `libc` as a result.
* Update all references to the new flat namespace.
* Moves all windows bindings into sys::c
* Store the native representation directly in the `ExitStatus` structure instead
of a "parsed version" (mostly for Unix).
* On Windows, be more robust against processes exiting with the status of 259.
Unfortunately this exit code corresponds to `STILL_ACTIVE`, causing libstd to
think the process was still alive, causing an infinite loop. Instead the loop
is removed altogether and `WaitForSingleObject` is used to wait for the
process to exit.
* Store the native representation directly in the `ExitStatus` structure instead
of a "parsed version" (mostly for Unix).
* On Windows, be more robust against processes exiting with the status of 259.
Unfortunately this exit code corresponds to `STILL_ACTIVE`, causing libstd to
think the process was still alive, causing an infinite loop. Instead the loop
is removed altogether and `WaitForSingleObject` is used to wait for the
process to exit.
As discovered in #29298, `env::set_var("", "")` will panic, but it turns out
that it *also* deadlocks on Unix systems. This happens because if a panic
happens while holding the environment lock, we then go try to read
RUST_BACKTRACE, grabbing the environment lock, causing a deadlock.
Specifically, the changes made here are:
* The environment lock is pushed into `std::sys` instead of `std::env`. This
also only puts it in the Unix implementation, not Windows where the functions
are already threadsafe.
* The `std::sys` implementation now returns `io::Result` so panics are
explicitly at the `std::env` level.
Note: for now, this change only affects `-windows-gnu` builds.
So why was this `libgcc` dylib dependency needed in the first place?
The stack unwinder needs to know about locations of unwind tables of all the modules loaded in the current process. The easiest portable way of achieving this is to have each module register itself with the unwinder when loaded into the process. All modules compiled by GCC do this by calling the __register_frame_info() in their startup code (that's `crtbegin.o` and `crtend.o`, which are automatically linked into any gcc output).
Another important piece is that there should be only one copy of the unwinder (and thus unwind tables registry) in the process. This pretty much means that the unwinder must be in a shared library (unless everything is statically linked).
Now, Rust compiler tries very hard to make sure that any given Rust crate appears in the final output just once. So if we link the unwinder statically to one of Rust's crates, everything should be fine.
Unfortunately, GCC startup objects are built under assumption that `libgcc` is the one true place for the unwind info registry, so I couldn't find any better way than to replace them. So out go `crtbegin`/`crtend`, in come `rsbegin`/`rsend`!
A side benefit of this change is that rustc is now more in control of the command line that goes to the linker, so we could stop using `gcc` as the linker driver and just invoke `ld` directly.
As discovered in #29298, `env::set_var("", "")` will panic, but it turns out
that it *also* deadlocks on Unix systems. This happens because if a panic
happens while holding the environment lock, we then go try to read
RUST_BACKTRACE, grabbing the environment lock, causing a deadlock.
Specifically, the changes made here are:
* The environment lock is pushed into `std::sys` instead of `std::env`. This
also only puts it in the Unix implementation, not Windows where the functions
are already threadsafe.
* The `std::sys` implementation now returns `io::Result` so panics are
explicitly at the `std::env` level. The panic messages have also been improved
in these situations.
This commit stabilizes and deprecates library APIs whose FCP has closed in the
last cycle, specifically:
Stabilized APIs:
* `fs::canonicalize`
* `Path::{metadata, symlink_metadata, canonicalize, read_link, read_dir, exists,
is_file, is_dir}` - all moved to inherent methods from the `PathExt` trait.
* `Formatter::fill`
* `Formatter::width`
* `Formatter::precision`
* `Formatter::sign_plus`
* `Formatter::sign_minus`
* `Formatter::alternate`
* `Formatter::sign_aware_zero_pad`
* `string::ParseError`
* `Utf8Error::valid_up_to`
* `Iterator::{cmp, partial_cmp, eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge}`
* `<[T]>::split_{first,last}{,_mut}`
* `Condvar::wait_timeout` - note that `wait_timeout_ms` is not yet deprecated
but will be once 1.5 is released.
* `str::{R,}MatchIndices`
* `str::{r,}match_indices`
* `char::from_u32_unchecked`
* `VecDeque::insert`
* `VecDeque::shrink_to_fit`
* `VecDeque::as_slices`
* `VecDeque::as_mut_slices`
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_front` - (renamed from `swap_front_remove`)
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_back` - (renamed from `swap_back_remove`)
* `Vec::resize`
* `str::slice_mut_unchecked`
* `FileTypeExt`
* `FileTypeExt::{is_block_device, is_char_device, is_fifo, is_socket}`
* `BinaryHeap::from` - `from_vec` deprecated in favor of this
* `BinaryHeap::into_vec` - plus a `Into` impl
* `BinaryHeap::into_sorted_vec`
Deprecated APIs
* `slice::ref_slice`
* `slice::mut_ref_slice`
* `iter::{range_inclusive, RangeInclusive}`
* `std::dynamic_lib`
Closes#27706Closes#27725
cc #27726 (align not stabilized yet)
Closes#27734Closes#27737Closes#27742Closes#27743Closes#27772Closes#27774Closes#27777Closes#27781
cc #27788 (a few remaining methods though)
Closes#27790Closes#27793Closes#27796Closes#27810
cc #28147 (not all parts stabilized)
This commit stabilizes and deprecates library APIs whose FCP has closed in the
last cycle, specifically:
Stabilized APIs:
* `fs::canonicalize`
* `Path::{metadata, symlink_metadata, canonicalize, read_link, read_dir, exists,
is_file, is_dir}` - all moved to inherent methods from the `PathExt` trait.
* `Formatter::fill`
* `Formatter::width`
* `Formatter::precision`
* `Formatter::sign_plus`
* `Formatter::sign_minus`
* `Formatter::alternate`
* `Formatter::sign_aware_zero_pad`
* `string::ParseError`
* `Utf8Error::valid_up_to`
* `Iterator::{cmp, partial_cmp, eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge}`
* `<[T]>::split_{first,last}{,_mut}`
* `Condvar::wait_timeout` - note that `wait_timeout_ms` is not yet deprecated
but will be once 1.5 is released.
* `str::{R,}MatchIndices`
* `str::{r,}match_indices`
* `char::from_u32_unchecked`
* `VecDeque::insert`
* `VecDeque::shrink_to_fit`
* `VecDeque::as_slices`
* `VecDeque::as_mut_slices`
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_front` - (renamed from `swap_front_remove`)
* `VecDeque::swap_remove_back` - (renamed from `swap_back_remove`)
* `Vec::resize`
* `str::slice_mut_unchecked`
* `FileTypeExt`
* `FileTypeExt::{is_block_device, is_char_device, is_fifo, is_socket}`
* `BinaryHeap::from` - `from_vec` deprecated in favor of this
* `BinaryHeap::into_vec` - plus a `Into` impl
* `BinaryHeap::into_sorted_vec`
Deprecated APIs
* `slice::ref_slice`
* `slice::mut_ref_slice`
* `iter::{range_inclusive, RangeInclusive}`
* `std::dynamic_lib`
Closes#27706Closes#27725
cc #27726 (align not stabilized yet)
Closes#27734Closes#27737Closes#27742Closes#27743Closes#27772Closes#27774Closes#27777Closes#27781
cc #27788 (a few remaining methods though)
Closes#27790Closes#27793Closes#27796Closes#27810
cc #28147 (not all parts stabilized)
This commit adds `#[derive(Clone)]` to `std::fs::Metadata`, making that struct cloneable. Although the exact contents of that struct differ between OSes, they all have it contain only value types, meaning that the data can be re-used without repercussions.
It also adds `#[derive(Clone)]` to every type used by that struct across all OSes, including the various Unix `stat` structs and Windows's `WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA`.
This stems from my comment here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/939#issuecomment-140524439
This commit adds #[derive(Clone)] to std::fs::Metadata, making that struct
cloneable. Although the exact contents of that struct differ between OSes,
they all have it contain only value types, meaning that the data can be re-used without repercussions.
It also adds #[derive(Clone)] to every type used by that struct across all
OSes, including the various Unix `stat` structs and Windows's
`WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA`.
Part of #28710
Landing pads during stage0 are now enabled by defaullt. Since this has its downsides and upsides either way, I made it possible to change the option through configure.
Travis CI has new infrastructure using the Google Compute Engine which has both
faster CPUs and more memory, and we've been encouraged to switch as it should
help our build times! The only downside currently, however, is that IPv6 is
disabled, causing a number of standard library tests to fail.
Consequently this commit tweaks our travis config in a few ways:
* ccache is disabled as it's not working on GCE just yet
* Docker is used to run tests inside which reportedly will get IPv6 working
* A system LLVM installation is used instead of building LLVM itself. This is
primarily done to reduce build times, but we want automation for this sort of
behavior anyway and we can extend this in the future with building from source
as well if needed.
* gcc-specific logic is removed as the docker image for Ubuntu gives us a
recent-enough gcc by default.
For most parts, rumprun currently looks like NetBSD, as they share the same
libc and drivers. However, being a unikernel, rumprun does not support
process management, signals or virtual memory, so related functions
might fail at runtime. Stack guards are disabled exactly for this reason.
Code for rumprun is always cross-compiled, it uses always static
linking and needs a custom linker.
Move the panic handling logic from the `unwind` module to `panicking`
and use a panic counter to distinguish between normal state, panics
and double panics.
This is part of some cleanup I did while investigating #28129.
This also ensures that `on_panic` is run even if the user has registered too many callbacks.
These changes introduce the ability to cross-compile working binaries for NetBSD/amd64. Previous support added in PR #26682 shared all its code with the OpenBSD implementation, and was therefore never functional (e.g. linking against non-existing symbols and using wrong type definitions). Nonetheless, the previous patches were a great starting point and made my work significantly easier. 😃
Because there are no stage0 snapshots for NetBSD (yet), I used a cross-compiler for NetBSD 7.0 RC3 and only tested some toy programs (threading and channels, stack guards, a small TCP/IP echo server and some other platform dependent bits). If someone could point me to documentation on how to generate a stage0 snapshot from a cross-compiler I'm happy to run the full test suite.
A few other notes regarding Rust on NetBSD/amd64:
- To preserve binary compatibility, NetBSD introduces new symbols for system call wrappers on breaking ABI changes and keeps the old (legacy) symbols around, see [this documentation](https://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/chap-processes.html#syscalls_master) for some details. I went ahead and modified the `libc` and `std` crate to use the current (renamed) symbols instead of the legacy ones where I found them, but I might have missed some. Notably using the `sigaction` symbol (deprecated in 1998) instead of `__sigaction14` even triggers SIGSYS (bad syscall) on my amd64 setup. I also changed the type definitions to use the most recent version.
- NetBSD's gdb doesn't really support position independent executables, so you might want to turn that off for debugging, see [NetBSD Problem Report #48250](https://gnats.netbsd.org/48250).
- For binaries invoked using a relative path, NetBSD supports `$ORIGIN` only for short `rpath`s (~64 chars or so, I'm told). If running an executable fails with `execname not specified in AUX vector: No such file or directory`, consider invoking the binary using its full absolute path.
The `register` function is unstable and it is not used anymore, hence
it can be removed (together with the now-unused `Callback` type and
`static` variables).
The registration of `panicking::on_panic` as a general-purpose
callback is overcomplicated and can fail.
Instead, invoking it explicitly removes the need for locking and paves
the way for further improvements.