This improves API consistency with uv_read and uv_write and may
improve efficiency for some uses. Vectored IO is emulated when the
requisite system calls are unavailable.
Every file descriptor opened using libuv should be automatically marked
as CLOEXEC to prevent it from leaking to a child process. Note that
since we are opening fds in a thread pool, there is a possible race
condition between `uv_spawn()` and the `open()` + `uv__cloexec()`. The
rwlock was added to avoid it.
see https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6905
If multiple handles arrive to the IPC pipe at the same time (happens on
some platforms), libuv will queue them internally, and call `read2_cb`
multiple times with a null-buffer and proper `handle_type`.
If spawning a process fails due to an exec() failure (but it succeeded
in forking), then this should be considered a spawn failure instead of
an asynchronous termination of the process. This allows to check for
common exec() failure conditions such as a bad path quickly instead of
having to rely on keeping track of the async callback.
Additionally, the meaning of the two fields returned in the callback are
now exactly what they advertise to be. The process exit argument is not
one of two values depending on what happened to the child.
Fixes#978.
Before this commit, multiple event loops raced with each other when a
SIGCHLD signal was received. More concretely, it was possible for
event loop A to consume waitpid() events that should have been
delivered to event loop B.
This commit addresses that by doing a linear scan over the list of
child processes. An O(n) scan is not terribly efficient but the
actual performance impact is not measurable in a benchmark that spawns
rounds of several thousands instances of /bin/false. For the time
being, this patch will suffice; we can always revisit it later.
Fixes#887.
Passing or returning structs as values makes life hard for people that
work with libuv through a foreign function interface. Switch to a
pointer-based approach.
Fixes#684.
Uses the pthread_key_{create,delete} and pthread_{get,set}specific
functions on UNIX platforms, Tls{Alloc,Free} and Tls{Get,Set}Value
on Windows.
Fixes#904.
Switch to the build tool everyone loves to hate. The Makefile has
served us well over the years but it's been acquiring more and more
features that autotools gives us for free, like easy static+shared
library building, sane install targets, and so on.
This commit drops MinGW support. If there is demand for it, we'll
re-add it.
Based on UNIX sockets to avoid the vagaries of FIFOs
in asynchronous mode. Currently unlinks stale sockets
before binding and cleans them up again after shutdown.
Instead of uv_shutdown, uv_write, uv_connect taking raw uv_req_t we subclass
uv_req_t into uv_shutdown_t, uv_write_t, and uv_connect_t.
uv_req_init is removed.
