fish's signal handlers are now sufficiently innocuous that there should
be no reason to block signals (outside of temporarily, when creating a
thread and we need to manipulate the signal mask).
Prior to this fix, an "event" was used as both a predicate on which events
to match, and also as the event itself. Re-express these concepts
distinctly: an event is something that happened, an event_handler is the
predicate and name of the function to execute.
Prior to this fix, fish had a signal_list_t that accumulated signals.
Signals were added to an array of integers, with an overflow flag.
The event machinery would attempt to atomically "swap in" the other list.
After this fix, there is a single list of pending signal events, as an array
of atomic booleans. The signal handler sets the boolean corresponding to its
signal.
In a galaxy far, far away, event_blockage_t was intended to block only cetain
events. But it always just blocked everything. Eliminate the event block
mask.
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!
Now that we use an internal process to perform builtin output, simplify the
logic around how it is performed. In particular we no longer have to be
careful about async-safe functions since we do not fork.
Also fix a bunch of comments that no longer apply.
This uses the new internal process mechanism to write output for builtins.
After this the only reason fish ever forks is to execute external processes.
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.
The sigchld generation expresses the idea that, if we receive a sigchld
signal, the generation will be different than when we last recorded it. A
process cannot exit before it has launched, so check the generation count
before process launch. This is an optimization that reduces failing
waitpid calls.
This is a big change to how process reaping works, reimplenting it using
topics. The idea is to simplify the logic in
process_mark_finished_children around blocking, and also prepare for
"internal processes" which do not correspond to real processes.
Before this change, fish would use waitpid() to wait for a process group,
OR would individually poll processes if the process group leader was
unreapable.
After this change, fish no longer ever calls blocking waitpid(). Instead
fish uses the topic mechanism. For each reapable process, fish checks if
it has received a SIGCHLD since last poll; if not it waits until the next
SIGCHLD, and then polls them all.
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 resolves the issue where running pre-compiled Linux packages from
binary package manager repositories lead fish to think that we are not
running under WSL.
- Closes#5619.
- Ping neovim/neovim#7330
This happens on OpenIndiana/Solaris/Illumos/SunOS.
Elsewhere we use read_blocked, which already returned in this
case (and which we might want to use here as well!).
