Initially I wanted to pick a different name to avoid confusion with
process groups, but really job trees *are* process groups. So name them
to reflect that fact.
Also rename "placeholder" to "internal" which is clearer.
job_lineage was used to track "where jobs came from" but the job tree idea is
a better abstraction. It groups jobs together similar to how a process group
would in other shells. Begin to remove the notion of lineage.
Job trees come in two flavors: “placeholders” for jobs which are only fish
functions, and non-placeholders which need to track a pgid. This adds
logic to allow a job to decide if its parent's job tree is appropriate,
and allocating a new tree if not.
It used to error out when a command wasn't known, even when it was a
function that would only be discovered via autoloading.
Now we just accept that a command doesn't exist when no-execute is
given - we're not gonna execute it anyway.
Also, in the same breath stop counting empty commands after expansion
and empty wildcard expansions as errors - these depend on runtime
values, so we can't verify them without executing.
Fixes#977.
(note that it still executes "time", but that's another commit)
The `function --on-job-exit caller` feature allows a command substitution
to observe when the parent job exits. This has never worked very well - in
particular it is based on job IDs, so a function that observes this will
run multiple times. Implement it properly.
Do this by having a not-recycled "internal job id".
This is only used by psub, but ensure it works properly none-the-less.
Introduce pgroup_provenance_t, a type which captures "where the pgroup
comes from." This centralizes some logic around how pgroups are
assigned, and it anticipates concurrent execution.
Prior to this fix, fish was rather inconsistent in when $status gets set
in response to an error. For example, a failed expansion like "$foo["
would not modify $status.
This makes the following inter-related changes:
1. String expansion now directly returns the value to set for $status on
error. The value is always used.
2. parser_t::eval() now directly returns the proc_status_t, which cleans
up a lot of call sites.
3. We expose a new function exec_subshell_for_expand() which ignores
$status but returns errors specifically related to subshell expansion.
4. We reify the notion of "expansion breaking" errors. These include
command-not-found, expand syntax errors, and others.
The upshot is we are more consistent about always setting $status on
errors.
This commit recognizes an existing pattern: many operations need some
combination of a set of variables, a way to detect cancellation, and
sometimes a parser. For example, tab completion needs a parser to execute
custom completions, the variable set, should cancel on SIGINT. Background
autosuggestions don't need a parser, but they do need the variables and
should cancel if the user types something new. Etc.
This introduces a new triple operation_context_t that wraps these concepts
up. This simplifies many method signatures and argument passing.
for-loops that were not inside a function could overwrite global
and universal variables with the loop variable. Avoid this by making
for-loop-variables local variables in their enclosing scope.
This means that if someone does:
set a global
for a in local; end
echo $a
The local $a will shadow the global one (but not be visible in child
scopes). Which is surprising, but less dangerous than the previous
behavior.
The detection whether the loop is running inside a function was failing
inside command substitutions. Remove this special handling of functions
alltogether, it's not needed anymore.
Fixes#6480
Store the entire function declaration, not just its job list.
This allows us to extract the body of the function complete with any
leading comments and indents.
Fixes#5285
In particular, this allows `true && time true`, or `true; and time true`,
and both `time not true` as well as `not time true` (like bash).
time is valid only as job _prefix_, so `true | time true` could call
`/bin/time` (same in bash)
See discussion in #6442
This PR is aimed at improving how job ids are assigned. In particular,
previous to this commit, a job id would be consumed by functions (and
thus aliases). Since it's usual to use functions as command wrappers
this results in awkward job id assignments.
For example if the user is like me and just made the jump from vim -> neovim
then the user might create the following alias:
```
alias vim=nvim
```
Previous to this commit if the user ran `vim` after setting up this
alias, backgrounded (^Z) and ran `jobs` then the output might be:
```
Job Group State Command
2 60267 stopped nvim $argv
```
If the user subsequently opened another vim (nvim) session, backgrounded
and ran jobs then they might see what follows:
```
Job Group State Command
4 70542 stopped nvim $argv
2 60267 stopped nvim $argv
```
These job ids feel unnatural, especially when transitioning away from
e.g. bash where job ids are sequentially incremented (and aliases/functions
don't consume a job id).
See #6053 for more details.
As @ridiculousfish pointed out in
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/6053#issuecomment-559899400,
we want to elide a job's job id if it corresponds to a single function in the
foreground. This translates to the following prerequisites:
- A job must correspond to a single process (i.e. the job continuation
must be empty)
- A job must be in the foreground (i.e. `&` wasn't appended)
- The job's single process must resolve to a function invocation
If all of these conditions are true then we should mark a job as
"internal" and somehow remove it from consideration when any
infrastructure tries to interact with jobs / job ids.
I saw two paths to implement these requirements:
- At the time of job creation calculate whether or not a job is
"internal" and use a separate list of job ids to track their ids.
Additionally introduce a new flag denoting that a job is internal so
that e.g. `jobs` doesn't list internal jobs
- I started implementing this route but quickly realized I was
computing the same information that would be computed later on (e.g.
"is this job a single process" and "is this jobs statement a
function"). Specifically I was computing data that populate_job_process
would end up computing later anyway. Additionally this added some
weird complexities to the job system (after the change there were two
job id lists AND an additional flag that had to be taken into
consideration)
- Once a function is about to be executed we release the current jobs
job id if the prerequisites are satisfied (which at this point have
been fully computed).
- I opted for this solution since it seems cleaner. In this
implementation "releasing a job id" is done by both calling
`release_job_id` and by marking the internal job_id member variable to
-1. The former operation allows subsequent child jobs to reuse that
same job id (so e.g. the situation described in Motivation doesn't
occur), and the latter ensures that no other job / job id
infrastructure will interact with these jobs because valid jobs have
positive job ids. The second operation causes job_id to become
non-const which leads to the list of code changes outside of `exec.c`
(i.e. a codemod from `job_t::job_id` -> `job_t::job_id()` and moving the
old member variable to a non-const private `job_t::job_id_`)
Note: Its very possible I missed something and setting the job id to -1
will break some other infrastructure, please let me know if so!
I tried to run `make/ninja lint`, but a bunch of non-relevant issues
appeared (e.g. `fatal error: 'config.h' file not found`). I did
successfully clang-format (`git clang-format -f`) and run tests, though.
This PR closes#6053.
If a Control-C is received during expanding a command substitution, we
may execute the job anyways, because we do not check for cancellation
after the expansion. Ensure that does not happen.
This should fix sporadic test failures in the cancellation unit test.
Prior to this change, a process after it has been constructed by
parse_execution, but before it is executed, was given a list of
io_data_t redirections. The problem is that redirections have a
sensitive ownership policy because they hold onto fds. This made it
rather hard to reason about fd lifetime.
Change these to redirection_spec_t. This is a textual description
of a redirection after expansion. It does not represent an open file and
so its lifetime is no longer important.
This enables files to be held only on the stack, and are no longer owned
by a process of indeterminate lifetime.
Prior to this fix, a job would hold onto any IO redirections from its
parent. For example:
begin
echo a
end < file.txt
The "echo a" job would hold a reference to the I/O redirection.
The problem is that jobs then extend the life of pipes until the job is
cleaned up. This can prevent pipes from closing, leading to hangs.
Fix this by not storing the block IO; this ensures that jobs do not
prolong the life of pipes.
Fixes#6397
