Printing is an incredibly useful debugging utility, and it's not much help if
your debugging prints just trigger an obscure abort when you need them most. In
order to handle this case, forcibly fall back to a libc::write implementation of
printing whenever a local task is not available.
Note that this is *not* a 1:1 fallback. All 1:1 rust tasks will still have a
local Task that it can go through (and stdio will be created through the local
IO factory), this is only a fallback for "no context" rust code (such as that
setting up the context).
It is not the case that all programs will always be able to acquire an instance
of the LocalIo borrow, so this commit exposes this limitation by returning
Option<LocalIo> from LocalIo::borrow().
At the same time, a helper method LocalIo::maybe_raise() has been added in order
to encapsulate the functionality of raising on io_error if there is on local I/O
available.
This implements a fair amount of the unimpl() functionality in io::native
relating to filesystem operations. I've also modified all io::fs tests to run in
both a native and uv environment (so everything is actually tested).
There are a two bits of remaining functionality which I was unable to get
working:
* change_file_times on windows
* lstat on windows
I think that change_file_times may just need a better interface, but lstat has a
large implementation in libuv which I didn't want to tackle trying to copy.
This commit re-organizes the io::native module slightly in order to have a
working implementation of rtio::IoFactory which uses native implementations. The
goal is to seamlessly multiplex among libuv/native implementations wherever
necessary.
Right now most of the native I/O is unimplemented, but we have existing bindings
for file descriptors and processes which have been hooked up. What this means is
that you can now invoke println!() from libstd with no local task, no local
scheduler, and even without libuv.
There's still plenty of work to do on the native I/O factory, but this is the
first steps into making it an official portion of the standard library. I don't
expect anyone to reach into io::native directly, but rather only std::io
primitives will be used. Each std::io interface seamlessly falls back onto the
native I/O implementation if the local scheduler doesn't have a libuv one
(hurray trait ojects!)
