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.
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.
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.
This commit changes the libuv API to return error codes directly rather
than storing them in a loop-global field.
A code snippet like this one:
if (uv_foo(loop) < 0) {
uv_err_t err = uv_last_error(loop);
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", uv_strerror(err));
}
Should be rewritten like this:
int err = uv_foo(loop);
if (err < 0)
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", uv_strerror(err));
The rationale for this change is that it should make creating bindings
for other languages a lot easier: dealing with struct return values is
painful with most FFIs and often downright buggy.
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.
This changes uv-win to use the new uv_req subclasses.
It gets rid of the uv_req.flags field. There used to be only request flag
(UV_REQ_PENDING), and it was mostly obsolete; it only had a real purpose for
internal uv_read requests. Now we'll use the UV_HANDLE_READ_PENDING flag on
the handle instead.
This patch also simplifies the accept logic for named pipes on windows. We
no longer have a separate struct to store information about established
connections. Instead we just carry over the windows HANDLE from the accept
request to the client handle in uv_pipe_accept().
