Now that our interactive signal handlers are a strict superset of
non-interactive ones, there is no reason to "reset" signals or take action
when becoming non-interactive. Clean up how signal handlers get installed.
This runs build_tools/style.fish, which runs clang-format on C++, fish_indent on fish and (new) black on python.
If anything is wrong with the formatting, we should fix the tools, but automated formatting is worth it.
These tests used raw, unescaped parentheses to perform `test` logical
grouping, but the test failures weren't caught because the parser
evaluation errors were not being propagated (fixed in bdbd173e).
Mostly related to usage _(L"foo"), keeping in mind the _
macro does a wcstring().c_str() already.
And a smattering of other trivial micro-optimizations certain
to not help tangibly.
As it turns out, NetBSD's rand(3) is awful - it's possible that in any
given run it'll only return odd numbers, which means
while (rand() % 10)
will never stop.
Since random(3) is also standardized and works, let's use that!
This introduces "internal processes" which are backed by a pthread instead
of a normal process. Internal processes are reaped using the topic
machinery, plugging in neatly alongside the sigchld topic; this means that
process_mark_finished_children() can wait for internal and external
processes simultaneously.
Initially internal processes replace the forked process that fish uses to
write out the output of blocks and functions.
This adds an "in-process" interpretation of dup2s, allowing for fish to
output directly to the correct file descriptor without having to perform
an in-kernel dup2 sequence.
topic_monitor allows for querying changes posted to one or more topics,
initially sigchld. This will eventually replace the waitpid logic in
process_mark_finished_children().
Comment from the new header:
Topic monitoring support. Topics are conceptually "a thing that can
happen." For example, delivery of a SIGINT, a child process exits, etc. It
is possible to post to a topic, which means that that thing happened.
Associated with each topic is a current generation, which is a 64 bit
value. When you query a topic, you get back a generation. If on the next
query the generation has increased, then it indicates someone posted to
the topic.
For example, if you are monitoring a child process, you can query the
sigchld topic. If it has increased since your last query, it is possible
that your child process has exited.
Topic postings may be coalesced. That is there may be two posts to a given
topic, yet the generation only increases by 1. The only guarantee is that
after a topic post, the current generation value is larger than any value
previously queried.
Tying this all together is the topic_monitor_t. This provides the current
topic generations, and also provides the ability to perform a blocking
wait for any topic to change in a particular topic set. This is the real
power of topics: you can wait for a sigchld signal OR a thread exit.
This is a large change to how io_buffers are filled. The essential problem
comes about with code like (example):
echo ( /bin/pwd )
The output of /bin/pwd must go to fish, not the tty. To arrange for this,
fish does the following:
1. Invoke pipe() to create a pipe.
2. Add an io_bufferfill_t redirection that owns the write end of the pipe.
3. After fork (or equiv), call dup2() to replace pwd's stdout with this pipe.
Now when /bin/pwd writes, it will send output to the read end of the pipe.
But who reads it?
Prior to this fix, fish would do the following in a loop:
1. select() on the pipe with a 10 msec timeout
2. waitpid(WNOHANG) on the pwd proc
This polling is ugly and confusing and is what is replaced here.
With this new change, fish now reads from the pipe via a background thread:
1. Spawn a background pthread, which select()s on the pipe's read end with
a long (100 msec) timeout.
2. In the foreground, waitpid() (allowing hanging) on the pwd proc.
The big win here is a major simplification of job_t::continue_job() since
it no longer has to worry about filling buffers. This will make things
easier for concurrent execution.
It may not be obvious why the background thread still needs a poll (100 msec).
The answer is for cases where the write end of the fd escapes, in particular
background processes invoked inside command substitutions. psub is perhaps
the only important case of this (other shells typically just hang here).
This makes some significant architectual improvements to io_pipe_t and
io_buffer_t.
Prior to this fix, io_buffer_t subclassed io_pipe_t. io_buffer_t is now
replaced with a class io_bufferfill_t, which does not subclass pipe.
io_pipe_t no longer remembers both fds. Instead it has an autoclose_fd_t,
so that the file descriptor ownership is clear.
