This is a behavioral difference in libuv between different platforms in
different situations. It turns out that libuv on windows will immediately
allocate a buffer instead of waiting for data to be ready. What this implies is
that we must have our custom data set on the handle before we call
uv_read_start.
I wish I knew of a way to test this, but this relies to being on the windows
platform *and* reading from a true TTY handle which only happens when this is
actually attached to a terminal. I have manually verified this works.
Closes#10645
In the ideal world, uv I/O could be canceled safely at any time. In reality,
however, we are unable to do this. Right now linked failure is fairly flaky as
implemented in the runtime, making it very difficult to test whether the linked
failure mechanisms inside of the uv bindings are ready for this kind of
interaction.
Right now, all constructors will execute in a task::unkillable block, and all
homing I/O operations will prevent linked failure in the duration of the homing
operation. What this means is that tasks which perform I/O are still susceptible
to linked failure, but the I/O operations themselves will never get interrupted.
Instead, the linked failure will be received at the edge of the I/O operation.
