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About
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=====
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`Nikhil Marathe <https://nikhilism.com>`_ started writing this book one
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afternoon (June 16, 2012) when he didn't feel like programming. He had recently
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been stung by the lack of good documentation on libuv while working on
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`node-taglib <https://github.com/nikhilm/node-taglib>`_. Although reference
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documentation was present, there were no comprehensive tutorials. This book is
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the output of that need and tries to be accurate. That said, the book may have
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mistakes. Pull requests are encouraged.
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Nikhil is indebted to Marc Lehmann's comprehensive `man page
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<http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod>`_ about libev which
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describes much of the semantics of the two libraries.
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This book was made using `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_ and `vim
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<https://www.vim.org>`_.
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.. note::
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In 2017 the libuv project incorporated the Nikhil's work into the official
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documentation and it's maintained there henceforth.
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Basics of libuv
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===============
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libuv enforces an **asynchronous**, **event-driven** style of programming. Its
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core job is to provide an event loop and callback based notifications of I/O
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and other activities. libuv offers core utilities like timers, non-blocking
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networking support, asynchronous file system access, child processes and more.
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Event loops
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-----------
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In event-driven programming, an application expresses interest in certain events
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and respond to them when they occur. The responsibility of gathering events
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from the operating system or monitoring other sources of events is handled by
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libuv, and the user can register callbacks to be invoked when an event occurs.
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The event-loop usually keeps running *forever*. In pseudocode:
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.. code-block:: python
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while there are still events to process:
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e = get the next event
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if there is a callback associated with e:
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call the callback
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Some examples of events are:
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* File is ready for writing
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* A socket has data ready to be read
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* A timer has timed out
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This event loop is encapsulated by ``uv_run()`` -- the end-all function when using
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libuv.
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The most common activity of systems programs is to deal with input and output,
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rather than a lot of number-crunching. The problem with using conventional
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input/output functions (``read``, ``fprintf``, etc.) is that they are
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**blocking**. The actual write to a hard disk or reading from a network, takes
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a disproportionately long time compared to the speed of the processor. The
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functions don't return until the task is done, so that your program is doing
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nothing. For programs which require high performance this is a major roadblock
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as other activities and other I/O operations are kept waiting.
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One of the standard solutions is to use threads. Each blocking I/O operation is
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started in a separate thread (or in a thread pool). When the blocking function
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gets invoked in the thread, the processor can schedule another thread to run,
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which actually needs the CPU.
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The approach followed by libuv uses another style, which is the **asynchronous,
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non-blocking** style. Most modern operating systems provide event notification
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subsystems. For example, a normal ``read`` call on a socket would block until
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the sender actually sent something. Instead, the application can request the
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operating system to watch the socket and put an event notification in the
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queue. The application can inspect the events at its convenience (perhaps doing
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some number crunching before to use the processor to the maximum) and grab the
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data. It is **asynchronous** because the application expressed interest at one
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point, then used the data at another point (in time and space). It is
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**non-blocking** because the application process was free to do other tasks.
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This fits in well with libuv's event-loop approach, since the operating system
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events can be treated as just another libuv event. The non-blocking ensures
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that other events can continue to be handled as fast as they come in [#]_.
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.. NOTE::
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How the I/O is run in the background is not of our concern, but due to the
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way our computer hardware works, with the thread as the basic unit of the
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processor, libuv and OSes will usually run background/worker threads and/or
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polling to perform tasks in a non-blocking manner.
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Bert Belder, one of the libuv core developers has a small video explaining the
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architecture of libuv and its background. If you have no prior experience with
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either libuv or libev, it is a quick, useful watch.
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libuv's event loop is explained in more detail in the `documentation
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<http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/design.html#the-i-o-loop>`_.
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.. raw:: html
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<iframe width="560" height="315"
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src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nGn60vDSxQ4" frameborder="0"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Hello World
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-----------
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With the basics out of the way, let's write our first libuv program. It does
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nothing, except start a loop which will exit immediately.
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.. rubric:: helloworld/main.c
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.. literalinclude:: ../../code/helloworld/main.c
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:linenos:
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This program quits immediately because it has no events to process. A libuv
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event loop has to be told to watch out for events using the various API
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functions.
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Starting with libuv v1.0, users should allocate the memory for the loops before
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initializing it with ``uv_loop_init(uv_loop_t *)``. This allows you to plug in
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custom memory management. Remember to de-initialize the loop using
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``uv_loop_close(uv_loop_t *)`` and then delete the storage. The examples never
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close loops since the program quits after the loop ends and the system will
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reclaim memory. Production grade projects, especially long running systems
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programs, should take care to release correctly.
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Default loop
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++++++++++++
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A default loop is provided by libuv and can be accessed using
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``uv_default_loop()``. You should use this loop if you only want a single
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loop.
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.. note::
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node.js uses the default loop as its main loop. If you are writing bindings
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you should be aware of this.
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.. _libuv-error-handling:
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Error handling
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--------------
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Initialization functions or synchronous functions which may fail return a negative number on error. Async functions that may fail will pass a status parameter to their callbacks. The error messages are defined as ``UV_E*`` `constants`_.
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.. _constants: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/errors.html#error-constants
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You can use the ``uv_strerror(int)`` and ``uv_err_name(int)`` functions
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to get a ``const char *`` describing the error or the error name respectively.
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I/O read callbacks (such as for files and sockets) are passed a parameter ``nread``. If ``nread`` is less than 0, there was an error (UV_EOF is the end of file error, which you may want to handle differently).
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Handles and Requests
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--------------------
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libuv works by the user expressing interest in particular events. This is
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usually done by creating a **handle** to an I/O device, timer or process.
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Handles are opaque structs named as ``uv_TYPE_t`` where type signifies what the
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handle is used for.
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.. rubric:: libuv watchers
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.. code-block:: c
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/* Handle types. */
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typedef struct uv_loop_s uv_loop_t;
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typedef struct uv_handle_s uv_handle_t;
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typedef struct uv_dir_s uv_dir_t;
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typedef struct uv_stream_s uv_stream_t;
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typedef struct uv_tcp_s uv_tcp_t;
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typedef struct uv_udp_s uv_udp_t;
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typedef struct uv_pipe_s uv_pipe_t;
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typedef struct uv_tty_s uv_tty_t;
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typedef struct uv_poll_s uv_poll_t;
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typedef struct uv_timer_s uv_timer_t;
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typedef struct uv_prepare_s uv_prepare_t;
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typedef struct uv_check_s uv_check_t;
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typedef struct uv_idle_s uv_idle_t;
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typedef struct uv_async_s uv_async_t;
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typedef struct uv_process_s uv_process_t;
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typedef struct uv_fs_event_s uv_fs_event_t;
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typedef struct uv_fs_poll_s uv_fs_poll_t;
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typedef struct uv_signal_s uv_signal_t;
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/* Request types. */
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typedef struct uv_req_s uv_req_t;
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typedef struct uv_getaddrinfo_s uv_getaddrinfo_t;
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typedef struct uv_getnameinfo_s uv_getnameinfo_t;
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typedef struct uv_shutdown_s uv_shutdown_t;
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typedef struct uv_write_s uv_write_t;
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typedef struct uv_connect_s uv_connect_t;
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typedef struct uv_udp_send_s uv_udp_send_t;
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typedef struct uv_fs_s uv_fs_t;
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typedef struct uv_work_s uv_work_t;
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Handles represent long-lived objects. Async operations on such handles are
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identified using **requests**. A request is short-lived (usually used across
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only one callback) and usually indicates one I/O operation on a handle.
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Requests are used to preserve context between the initiation and the callback
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of individual actions. For example, an UDP socket is represented by
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a ``uv_udp_t``, while individual writes to the socket use a ``uv_udp_send_t``
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structure that is passed to the callback after the write is done.
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Handles are setup by a corresponding::
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uv_TYPE_init(uv_loop_t *, uv_TYPE_t *)
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function.
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Callbacks are functions which are called by libuv whenever an event the watcher
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is interested in has taken place. Application specific logic will usually be
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implemented in the callback. For example, an IO watcher's callback will receive
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the data read from a file, a timer callback will be triggered on timeout and so
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on.
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Idling
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++++++
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Here is an example of using an idle handle. The callback is called once on
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every turn of the event loop. A use case for idle handles is discussed in
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:doc:`utilities`. Let us use an idle watcher to look at the watcher life cycle
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and see how ``uv_run()`` will now block because a watcher is present. The idle
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watcher is stopped when the count is reached and ``uv_run()`` exits since no
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event watchers are active.
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.. rubric:: idle-basic/main.c
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.. literalinclude:: ../../code/idle-basic/main.c
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:emphasize-lines: 6,10,14-17
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Storing context
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+++++++++++++++
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In callback based programming style you'll often want to pass some 'context' --
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application specific information -- between the call site and the callback. All
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handles and requests have a ``void* data`` member which you can set to the
|
||||
context and cast back in the callback. This is a common pattern used throughout
|
||||
the C library ecosystem. In addition ``uv_loop_t`` also has a similar data
|
||||
member.
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. [#] Depending on the capacity of the hardware of course.
|
48
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/eventloops.rst
vendored
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48
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/eventloops.rst
vendored
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@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
|
||||
Advanced event loops
|
||||
====================
|
||||
|
||||
libuv provides considerable user control over event loops, and you can achieve
|
||||
interesting results by juggling multiple loops. You can also embed libuv's
|
||||
event loop into another event loop based library -- imagine a Qt based UI, and
|
||||
Qt's event loop driving a libuv backend which does intensive system level
|
||||
tasks.
|
||||
|
||||
Stopping an event loop
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_stop()`` can be used to stop an event loop. The earliest the loop will
|
||||
stop running is *on the next iteration*, possibly later. This means that events
|
||||
that are ready to be processed in this iteration of the loop will still be
|
||||
processed, so ``uv_stop()`` can't be used as a kill switch. When ``uv_stop()``
|
||||
is called, the loop **won't** block for i/o on this iteration. The semantics of
|
||||
these things can be a bit difficult to understand, so let's look at
|
||||
``uv_run()`` where all the control flow occurs.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: src/unix/core.c - uv_run
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../../src/unix/core.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 304-324
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 10,19,21
|
||||
|
||||
``stop_flag`` is set by ``uv_stop()``. Now all libuv callbacks are invoked
|
||||
within the event loop, which is why invoking ``uv_stop()`` in them will still
|
||||
lead to this iteration of the loop occurring. First libuv updates timers, then
|
||||
runs pending timer, idle and prepare callbacks, and invokes any pending I/O
|
||||
callbacks. If you were to call ``uv_stop()`` in any of them, ``stop_flag``
|
||||
would be set. This causes ``uv_backend_timeout()`` to return ``0``, which is
|
||||
why the loop does not block on I/O. If on the other hand, you called
|
||||
``uv_stop()`` in one of the check handlers, I/O has already finished and is not
|
||||
affected.
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_stop()`` is useful to shutdown a loop when a result has been computed or
|
||||
there is an error, without having to ensure that all handlers are stopped one
|
||||
by one.
|
||||
|
||||
Here is a simple example that stops the loop and demonstrates how the current
|
||||
iteration of the loop still takes places.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvstop/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvstop/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 11
|
||||
|
330
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/filesystem.rst
vendored
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330
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/filesystem.rst
vendored
Normal file
@ -0,0 +1,330 @@
|
||||
Filesystem
|
||||
==========
|
||||
|
||||
Simple filesystem read/write is achieved using the ``uv_fs_*`` functions and the
|
||||
``uv_fs_t`` struct.
|
||||
|
||||
.. note::
|
||||
|
||||
The libuv filesystem operations are different from :doc:`socket operations
|
||||
<networking>`. Socket operations use the non-blocking operations provided
|
||||
by the operating system. Filesystem operations use blocking functions
|
||||
internally, but invoke these functions in a `thread pool`_ and notify
|
||||
watchers registered with the event loop when application interaction is
|
||||
required.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _thread pool: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/threadpool.html#thread-pool-work-scheduling
|
||||
|
||||
All filesystem functions have two forms - *synchronous* and *asynchronous*.
|
||||
|
||||
The *synchronous* forms automatically get called (and **block**) if the
|
||||
callback is null. The return value of functions is a :ref:`libuv error code
|
||||
<libuv-error-handling>`. This is usually only useful for synchronous calls.
|
||||
The *asynchronous* form is called when a callback is passed and the return
|
||||
value is 0.
|
||||
|
||||
Reading/Writing files
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
A file descriptor is obtained using
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_fs_open(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int flags, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb)
|
||||
|
||||
``flags`` and ``mode`` are standard
|
||||
`Unix flags <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html>`_.
|
||||
libuv takes care of converting to the appropriate Windows flags.
|
||||
|
||||
File descriptors are closed using
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_fs_close(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_fs_cb cb)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Filesystem operation callbacks have the signature:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
void callback(uv_fs_t* req);
|
||||
|
||||
Let's see a simple implementation of ``cat``. We start with registering
|
||||
a callback for when the file is opened:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvcat/main.c - opening a file
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvcat/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 41-53
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 4, 6-7
|
||||
|
||||
The ``result`` field of a ``uv_fs_t`` is the file descriptor in case of the
|
||||
``uv_fs_open`` callback. If the file is successfully opened, we start reading it.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvcat/main.c - read callback
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvcat/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 26-40
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2,8,12
|
||||
|
||||
In the case of a read call, you should pass an *initialized* buffer which will
|
||||
be filled with data before the read callback is triggered. The ``uv_fs_*``
|
||||
operations map almost directly to certain POSIX functions, so EOF is indicated
|
||||
in this case by ``result`` being 0. In the case of streams or pipes, the
|
||||
``UV_EOF`` constant would have been passed as a status instead.
|
||||
|
||||
Here you see a common pattern when writing asynchronous programs. The
|
||||
``uv_fs_close()`` call is performed synchronously. *Usually tasks which are
|
||||
one-off, or are done as part of the startup or shutdown stage are performed
|
||||
synchronously, since we are interested in fast I/O when the program is going
|
||||
about its primary task and dealing with multiple I/O sources*. For solo tasks
|
||||
the performance difference usually is negligible and may lead to simpler code.
|
||||
|
||||
Filesystem writing is similarly simple using ``uv_fs_write()``. *Your callback
|
||||
will be triggered after the write is complete*. In our case the callback
|
||||
simply drives the next read. Thus read and write proceed in lockstep via
|
||||
callbacks.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvcat/main.c - write callback
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvcat/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 16-24
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 6
|
||||
|
||||
.. warning::
|
||||
|
||||
Due to the way filesystems and disk drives are configured for performance,
|
||||
a write that 'succeeds' may not be committed to disk yet.
|
||||
|
||||
We set the dominos rolling in ``main()``:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvcat/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvcat/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 55-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2
|
||||
|
||||
.. warning::
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_fs_req_cleanup()`` function must always be called on filesystem
|
||||
requests to free internal memory allocations in libuv.
|
||||
|
||||
Filesystem operations
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
All the standard filesystem operations like ``unlink``, ``rmdir``, ``stat`` are
|
||||
supported asynchronously and have intuitive argument order. They follow the
|
||||
same patterns as the read/write/open calls, returning the result in the
|
||||
``uv_fs_t.result`` field. The full list:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: Filesystem operations
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_fs_close(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_open(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int flags, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_read(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, const uv_buf_t bufs[], unsigned int nbufs, int64_t offset, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_unlink(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_write(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, const uv_buf_t bufs[], unsigned int nbufs, int64_t offset, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_copyfile(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, const char* new_path, int flags, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_mkdir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_mkdtemp(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* tpl, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_rmdir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_scandir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int flags, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_scandir_next(uv_fs_t* req, uv_dirent_t* ent);
|
||||
int uv_fs_opendir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_readdir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_dir_t* dir, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_closedir(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_dir_t* dir, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_stat(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_fstat(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_rename(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, const char* new_path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_fsync(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_fdatasync(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_ftruncate(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, int64_t offset, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_sendfile(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file out_fd, uv_file in_fd, int64_t in_offset, size_t length, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_access(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_chmod(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_utime(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, double atime, double mtime, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_futime(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, double atime, double mtime, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_lstat(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_link(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, const char* new_path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_symlink(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, const char* new_path, int flags, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_readlink(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_realpath(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_fchmod(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, int mode, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_chown(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_uid_t uid, uv_gid_t gid, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_fchown(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, uv_file file, uv_uid_t uid, uv_gid_t gid, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
int uv_fs_lchown(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_fs_t* req, const char* path, uv_uid_t uid, uv_gid_t gid, uv_fs_cb cb);
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
.. _buffers-and-streams:
|
||||
|
||||
Buffers and Streams
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
The basic I/O handle in libuv is the stream (``uv_stream_t``). TCP sockets, UDP
|
||||
sockets, and pipes for file I/O and IPC are all treated as stream subclasses.
|
||||
|
||||
Streams are initialized using custom functions for each subclass, then operated
|
||||
upon using
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_read_start(uv_stream_t*, uv_alloc_cb alloc_cb, uv_read_cb read_cb);
|
||||
int uv_read_stop(uv_stream_t*);
|
||||
int uv_write(uv_write_t* req, uv_stream_t* handle,
|
||||
const uv_buf_t bufs[], unsigned int nbufs, uv_write_cb cb);
|
||||
|
||||
The stream based functions are simpler to use than the filesystem ones and
|
||||
libuv will automatically keep reading from a stream when ``uv_read_start()`` is
|
||||
called once, until ``uv_read_stop()`` is called.
|
||||
|
||||
The discrete unit of data is the buffer -- ``uv_buf_t``. This is simply
|
||||
a collection of a pointer to bytes (``uv_buf_t.base``) and the length
|
||||
(``uv_buf_t.len``). The ``uv_buf_t`` is lightweight and passed around by value.
|
||||
What does require management is the actual bytes, which have to be allocated
|
||||
and freed by the application.
|
||||
|
||||
.. ERROR::
|
||||
|
||||
THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK, NEED SOMETHING BETTER**
|
||||
|
||||
To demonstrate streams we will need to use ``uv_pipe_t``. This allows streaming
|
||||
local files [#]_. Here is a simple tee utility using libuv. Doing all operations
|
||||
asynchronously shows the power of evented I/O. The two writes won't block each
|
||||
other, but we have to be careful to copy over the buffer data to ensure we don't
|
||||
free a buffer until it has been written.
|
||||
|
||||
The program is to be executed as::
|
||||
|
||||
./uvtee <output_file>
|
||||
|
||||
We start off opening pipes on the files we require. libuv pipes to a file are
|
||||
opened as bidirectional by default.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvtee/main.c - read on pipes
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvtee/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 61-80
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 4,5,15
|
||||
|
||||
The third argument of ``uv_pipe_init()`` should be set to 1 for IPC using named
|
||||
pipes. This is covered in :doc:`processes`. The ``uv_pipe_open()`` call
|
||||
associates the pipe with the file descriptor, in this case ``0`` (standard
|
||||
input).
|
||||
|
||||
We start monitoring ``stdin``. The ``alloc_buffer`` callback is invoked as new
|
||||
buffers are required to hold incoming data. ``read_stdin`` will be called with
|
||||
these buffers.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvtee/main.c - reading buffers
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvtee/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 19-22,44-60
|
||||
|
||||
The standard ``malloc`` is sufficient here, but you can use any memory allocation
|
||||
scheme. For example, node.js uses its own slab allocator which associates
|
||||
buffers with V8 objects.
|
||||
|
||||
The read callback ``nread`` parameter is less than 0 on any error. This error
|
||||
might be EOF, in which case we close all the streams, using the generic close
|
||||
function ``uv_close()`` which deals with the handle based on its internal type.
|
||||
Otherwise ``nread`` is a non-negative number and we can attempt to write that
|
||||
many bytes to the output streams. Finally remember that buffer allocation and
|
||||
deallocation is application responsibility, so we free the data.
|
||||
|
||||
The allocation callback may return a buffer with length zero if it fails to
|
||||
allocate memory. In this case, the read callback is invoked with error
|
||||
UV_ENOBUFS. libuv will continue to attempt to read the stream though, so you
|
||||
must explicitly call ``uv_close()`` if you want to stop when allocation fails.
|
||||
|
||||
The read callback may be called with ``nread = 0``, indicating that at this
|
||||
point there is nothing to be read. Most applications will just ignore this.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvtee/main.c - Write to pipe
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvtee/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 9-13,23-42
|
||||
|
||||
``write_data()`` makes a copy of the buffer obtained from read. This buffer
|
||||
does not get passed through to the write callback trigged on write completion. To
|
||||
get around this we wrap a write request and a buffer in ``write_req_t`` and
|
||||
unwrap it in the callbacks. We make a copy so we can free the two buffers from
|
||||
the two calls to ``write_data`` independently of each other. While acceptable
|
||||
for a demo program like this, you'll probably want smarter memory management,
|
||||
like reference counted buffers or a pool of buffers in any major application.
|
||||
|
||||
.. WARNING::
|
||||
|
||||
If your program is meant to be used with other programs it may knowingly or
|
||||
unknowingly be writing to a pipe. This makes it susceptible to `aborting on
|
||||
receiving a SIGPIPE`_. It is a good idea to insert::
|
||||
|
||||
signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN)
|
||||
|
||||
in the initialization stages of your application.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _aborting on receiving a SIGPIPE: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#The_special_problem_of_SIGPIPE
|
||||
|
||||
File change events
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
All modern operating systems provide APIs to put watches on individual files or
|
||||
directories and be informed when the files are modified. libuv wraps common
|
||||
file change notification libraries [#fsnotify]_. This is one of the more
|
||||
inconsistent parts of libuv. File change notification systems are themselves
|
||||
extremely varied across platforms so getting everything working everywhere is
|
||||
difficult. To demonstrate, I'm going to build a simple utility which runs
|
||||
a command whenever any of the watched files change::
|
||||
|
||||
./onchange <command> <file1> [file2] ...
|
||||
|
||||
The file change notification is started using ``uv_fs_event_init()``:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: onchange/main.c - The setup
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/onchange/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 26-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 15
|
||||
|
||||
The third argument is the actual file or directory to monitor. The last
|
||||
argument, ``flags``, can be:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
/*
|
||||
* Flags to be passed to uv_fs_event_start().
|
||||
*/
|
||||
enum uv_fs_event_flags {
|
||||
UV_FS_EVENT_WATCH_ENTRY = 1,
|
||||
UV_FS_EVENT_STAT = 2,
|
||||
UV_FS_EVENT_RECURSIVE = 4
|
||||
};
|
||||
|
||||
``UV_FS_EVENT_WATCH_ENTRY`` and ``UV_FS_EVENT_STAT`` don't do anything (yet).
|
||||
``UV_FS_EVENT_RECURSIVE`` will start watching subdirectories as well on
|
||||
supported platforms.
|
||||
|
||||
The callback will receive the following arguments:
|
||||
|
||||
#. ``uv_fs_event_t *handle`` - The handle. The ``path`` field of the handle
|
||||
is the file on which the watch was set.
|
||||
#. ``const char *filename`` - If a directory is being monitored, this is the
|
||||
file which was changed. Only non-``null`` on Linux and Windows. May be ``null``
|
||||
even on those platforms.
|
||||
#. ``int flags`` - one of ``UV_RENAME`` or ``UV_CHANGE``, or a bitwise OR of
|
||||
both.
|
||||
#. ``int status`` - Currently 0.
|
||||
|
||||
In our example we simply print the arguments and run the command using
|
||||
``system()``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: onchange/main.c - file change notification callback
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/onchange/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 9-24
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. [#fsnotify] inotify on Linux, FSEvents on Darwin, kqueue on BSDs,
|
||||
ReadDirectoryChangesW on Windows, event ports on Solaris, unsupported on Cygwin
|
||||
.. [#] see :ref:`pipes`
|
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|
||||
Introduction
|
||||
============
|
||||
|
||||
This 'book' is a small set of tutorials about using libuv_ as
|
||||
a high performance evented I/O library which offers the same API on Windows and Unix.
|
||||
|
||||
It is meant to cover the main areas of libuv, but is not a comprehensive
|
||||
reference discussing every function and data structure. The `official libuv
|
||||
documentation`_ may be consulted for full details.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _official libuv documentation: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/
|
||||
|
||||
This book is still a work in progress, so sections may be incomplete, but
|
||||
I hope you will enjoy it as it grows.
|
||||
|
||||
Who this book is for
|
||||
--------------------
|
||||
|
||||
If you are reading this book, you are either:
|
||||
|
||||
1) a systems programmer, creating low-level programs such as daemons or network
|
||||
services and clients. You have found that the event loop approach is well
|
||||
suited for your application and decided to use libuv.
|
||||
|
||||
2) a node.js module writer, who wants to wrap platform APIs
|
||||
written in C or C++ with a set of (a)synchronous APIs that are exposed to
|
||||
JavaScript. You will use libuv purely in the context of node.js. For
|
||||
this you will require some other resources as the book does not cover parts
|
||||
specific to v8/node.js.
|
||||
|
||||
This book assumes that you are comfortable with the C programming language.
|
||||
|
||||
Background
|
||||
----------
|
||||
|
||||
The node.js_ project began in 2009 as a JavaScript environment decoupled
|
||||
from the browser. Using Google's V8_ and Marc Lehmann's libev_, node.js
|
||||
combined a model of I/O -- evented -- with a language that was well suited to
|
||||
the style of programming; due to the way it had been shaped by browsers. As
|
||||
node.js grew in popularity, it was important to make it work on Windows, but
|
||||
libev ran only on Unix. The Windows equivalent of kernel event notification
|
||||
mechanisms like kqueue or (e)poll is IOCP. libuv was an abstraction around libev
|
||||
or IOCP depending on the platform, providing users an API based on libev.
|
||||
In the node-v0.9.0 version of libuv `libev was removed`_.
|
||||
|
||||
Since then libuv has continued to mature and become a high quality standalone
|
||||
library for system programming. Users outside of node.js include Mozilla's
|
||||
Rust_ programming language, and a variety_ of language bindings.
|
||||
|
||||
This book and the code is based on libuv version `v1.3.0`_.
|
||||
|
||||
Code
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
All the code from this book is included as part of the source of the book on
|
||||
Github. `Clone`_/`Download`_ the book, then build libuv::
|
||||
|
||||
cd libuv
|
||||
./autogen.sh
|
||||
./configure
|
||||
make
|
||||
|
||||
There is no need to ``make install``. To build the examples run ``make`` in the
|
||||
``code/`` directory.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _Clone: https://github.com/nikhilm/uvbook
|
||||
.. _Download: https://github.com/nikhilm/uvbook/downloads
|
||||
.. _v1.3.0: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/tags
|
||||
.. _V8: https://v8.dev
|
||||
.. _libev: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
|
||||
.. _libuv: https://github.com/libuv/libuv
|
||||
.. _node.js: https://www.nodejs.org
|
||||
.. _libev was removed: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues/485
|
||||
.. _Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org
|
||||
.. _variety: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv
|
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|
||||
Networking
|
||||
==========
|
||||
|
||||
Networking in libuv is not much different from directly using the BSD socket
|
||||
interface, some things are easier, all are non-blocking, but the concepts stay
|
||||
the same. In addition libuv offers utility functions to abstract the annoying,
|
||||
repetitive and low-level tasks like setting up sockets using the BSD socket
|
||||
structures, DNS lookup, and tweaking various socket parameters.
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_tcp_t`` and ``uv_udp_t`` structures are used for network I/O.
|
||||
|
||||
.. NOTE::
|
||||
|
||||
The code samples in this chapter exist to show certain libuv APIs. They are
|
||||
not examples of good quality code. They leak memory and don't always close
|
||||
connections properly.
|
||||
|
||||
TCP
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
TCP is a connection oriented, stream protocol and is therefore based on the
|
||||
libuv streams infrastructure.
|
||||
|
||||
Server
|
||||
++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Server sockets proceed by:
|
||||
|
||||
1. ``uv_tcp_init`` the TCP handle.
|
||||
2. ``uv_tcp_bind`` it.
|
||||
3. Call ``uv_listen`` on the handle to have a callback invoked whenever a new
|
||||
connection is established by a client.
|
||||
4. Use ``uv_accept`` to accept the connection.
|
||||
5. Use :ref:`stream operations <buffers-and-streams>` to communicate with the
|
||||
client.
|
||||
|
||||
Here is a simple echo server
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: tcp-echo-server/main.c - The listen socket
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/tcp-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 68-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 4-5,7-10
|
||||
|
||||
You can see the utility function ``uv_ip4_addr`` being used to convert from
|
||||
a human readable IP address, port pair to the sockaddr_in structure required by
|
||||
the BSD socket APIs. The reverse can be obtained using ``uv_ip4_name``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. NOTE::
|
||||
|
||||
There are ``uv_ip6_*`` analogues for the ip4 functions.
|
||||
|
||||
Most of the setup functions are synchronous since they are CPU-bound.
|
||||
``uv_listen`` is where we return to libuv's callback style. The second
|
||||
arguments is the backlog queue -- the maximum length of queued connections.
|
||||
|
||||
When a connection is initiated by clients, the callback is required to set up
|
||||
a handle for the client socket and associate the handle using ``uv_accept``.
|
||||
In this case we also establish interest in reading from this stream.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: tcp-echo-server/main.c - Accepting the client
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/tcp-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 51-66
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 9-10
|
||||
|
||||
The remaining set of functions is very similar to the streams example and can
|
||||
be found in the code. Just remember to call ``uv_close`` when the socket isn't
|
||||
required. This can be done even in the ``uv_listen`` callback if you are not
|
||||
interested in accepting the connection.
|
||||
|
||||
Client
|
||||
++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Where you do bind/listen/accept on the server, on the client side it's simply
|
||||
a matter of calling ``uv_tcp_connect``. The same ``uv_connect_cb`` style
|
||||
callback of ``uv_listen`` is used by ``uv_tcp_connect``. Try::
|
||||
|
||||
uv_tcp_t* socket = (uv_tcp_t*)malloc(sizeof(uv_tcp_t));
|
||||
uv_tcp_init(loop, socket);
|
||||
|
||||
uv_connect_t* connect = (uv_connect_t*)malloc(sizeof(uv_connect_t));
|
||||
|
||||
struct sockaddr_in dest;
|
||||
uv_ip4_addr("127.0.0.1", 80, &dest);
|
||||
|
||||
uv_tcp_connect(connect, socket, (const struct sockaddr*)&dest, on_connect);
|
||||
|
||||
where ``on_connect`` will be called after the connection is established. The
|
||||
callback receives the ``uv_connect_t`` struct, which has a member ``.handle``
|
||||
pointing to the socket.
|
||||
|
||||
UDP
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The `User Datagram Protocol`_ offers connectionless, unreliable network
|
||||
communication. Hence libuv doesn't offer a stream. Instead libuv provides
|
||||
non-blocking UDP support via the `uv_udp_t` handle (for receiving) and
|
||||
`uv_udp_send_t` request (for sending) and related functions. That said, the
|
||||
actual API for reading/writing is very similar to normal stream reads. To look
|
||||
at how UDP can be used, the example shows the first stage of obtaining an IP
|
||||
address from a `DHCP`_ server -- DHCP Discover.
|
||||
|
||||
.. note::
|
||||
|
||||
You will have to run `udp-dhcp` as **root** since it uses well known port
|
||||
numbers below 1024.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: udp-dhcp/main.c - Setup and send UDP packets
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/udp-dhcp/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 7-11,104-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 8,10-11,17-18,21
|
||||
|
||||
.. note::
|
||||
|
||||
The IP address ``0.0.0.0`` is used to bind to all interfaces. The IP
|
||||
address ``255.255.255.255`` is a broadcast address meaning that packets
|
||||
will be sent to all interfaces on the subnet. port ``0`` means that the OS
|
||||
randomly assigns a port.
|
||||
|
||||
First we setup the receiving socket to bind on all interfaces on port 68 (DHCP
|
||||
client) and start a read on it. This will read back responses from any DHCP
|
||||
server that replies. We use the UV_UDP_REUSEADDR flag to play nice with any
|
||||
other system DHCP clients that are running on this computer on the same port.
|
||||
Then we setup a similar send socket and use ``uv_udp_send`` to send
|
||||
a *broadcast message* on port 67 (DHCP server).
|
||||
|
||||
It is **necessary** to set the broadcast flag, otherwise you will get an
|
||||
``EACCES`` error [#]_. The exact message being sent is not relevant to this
|
||||
book and you can study the code if you are interested. As usual the read and
|
||||
write callbacks will receive a status code of < 0 if something went wrong.
|
||||
|
||||
Since UDP sockets are not connected to a particular peer, the read callback
|
||||
receives an extra parameter about the sender of the packet.
|
||||
|
||||
``nread`` may be zero if there is no more data to be read. If ``addr`` is NULL,
|
||||
it indicates there is nothing to read (the callback shouldn't do anything), if
|
||||
not NULL, it indicates that an empty datagram was received from the host at
|
||||
``addr``. The ``flags`` parameter may be ``UV_UDP_PARTIAL`` if the buffer
|
||||
provided by your allocator was not large enough to hold the data. *In this case
|
||||
the OS will discard the data that could not fit* (That's UDP for you!).
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: udp-dhcp/main.c - Reading packets
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/udp-dhcp/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 17-40
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 1,23
|
||||
|
||||
UDP Options
|
||||
+++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Time-to-live
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The TTL of packets sent on the socket can be changed using ``uv_udp_set_ttl``.
|
||||
|
||||
IPv6 stack only
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
IPv6 sockets can be used for both IPv4 and IPv6 communication. If you want to
|
||||
restrict the socket to IPv6 only, pass the ``UV_UDP_IPV6ONLY`` flag to
|
||||
``uv_udp_bind`` [#]_.
|
||||
|
||||
Multicast
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
A socket can (un)subscribe to a multicast group using:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code::block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_udp_set_membership(uv_udp_t* handle, const char* multicast_addr, const char* interface_addr, uv_membership membership);
|
||||
|
||||
where ``membership`` is ``UV_JOIN_GROUP`` or ``UV_LEAVE_GROUP``.
|
||||
|
||||
The concepts of multicasting are nicely explained in `this guide`_.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _this guide: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO-2.html
|
||||
|
||||
Local loopback of multicast packets is enabled by default [#]_, use
|
||||
``uv_udp_set_multicast_loop`` to switch it off.
|
||||
|
||||
The packet time-to-live for multicast packets can be changed using
|
||||
``uv_udp_set_multicast_ttl``.
|
||||
|
||||
Querying DNS
|
||||
------------
|
||||
|
||||
libuv provides asynchronous DNS resolution. For this it provides its own
|
||||
``getaddrinfo`` replacement [#]_. In the callback you can
|
||||
perform normal socket operations on the retrieved addresses. Let's connect to
|
||||
Freenode to see an example of DNS resolution.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: dns/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/dns/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 61-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 12
|
||||
|
||||
If ``uv_getaddrinfo`` returns non-zero, something went wrong in the setup and
|
||||
your callback won't be invoked at all. All arguments can be freed immediately
|
||||
after ``uv_getaddrinfo`` returns. The `hostname`, `servname` and `hints`
|
||||
structures are documented in `the getaddrinfo man page <getaddrinfo_>`_. The
|
||||
callback can be ``NULL`` in which case the function will run synchronously.
|
||||
|
||||
In the resolver callback, you can pick any IP from the linked list of ``struct
|
||||
addrinfo(s)``. This also demonstrates ``uv_tcp_connect``. It is necessary to
|
||||
call ``uv_freeaddrinfo`` in the callback.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: dns/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/dns/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 42-60
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 8,16
|
||||
|
||||
libuv also provides the inverse `uv_getnameinfo`_.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _uv_getnameinfo: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/dns.html#c.uv_getnameinfo
|
||||
|
||||
Network interfaces
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Information about the system's network interfaces can be obtained through libuv
|
||||
using ``uv_interface_addresses``. This simple program just prints out all the
|
||||
interface details so you get an idea of the fields that are available. This is
|
||||
useful to allow your service to bind to IP addresses when it starts.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: interfaces/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/interfaces/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 9,17
|
||||
|
||||
``is_internal`` is true for loopback interfaces. Note that if a physical
|
||||
interface has multiple IPv4/IPv6 addresses, the name will be reported multiple
|
||||
times, with each address being reported once.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _c-ares: https://c-ares.haxx.se
|
||||
.. _getaddrinfo: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html
|
||||
|
||||
.. _User Datagram Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol
|
||||
.. _DHCP: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2131
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. [#] https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/#broadcast-packetshello-world
|
||||
.. [#] on Windows only supported on Windows Vista and later.
|
||||
.. [#] https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1
|
||||
.. [#] libuv use the system ``getaddrinfo`` in the libuv threadpool. libuv
|
||||
v0.8.0 and earlier also included c-ares_ as an alternative, but this has been
|
||||
removed in v0.9.0.
|
406
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/processes.rst
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@ -0,0 +1,406 @@
|
||||
Processes
|
||||
=========
|
||||
|
||||
libuv offers considerable child process management, abstracting the platform
|
||||
differences and allowing communication with the child process using streams or
|
||||
named pipes.
|
||||
|
||||
A common idiom in Unix is for every process to do one thing and do it well. In
|
||||
such a case, a process often uses multiple child processes to achieve tasks
|
||||
(similar to using pipes in shells). A multi-process model with messages
|
||||
may also be easier to reason about compared to one with threads and shared
|
||||
memory.
|
||||
|
||||
A common refrain against event-based programs is that they cannot take
|
||||
advantage of multiple cores in modern computers. In a multi-threaded program
|
||||
the kernel can perform scheduling and assign different threads to different
|
||||
cores, improving performance. But an event loop has only one thread. The
|
||||
workaround can be to launch multiple processes instead, with each process
|
||||
running an event loop, and each process getting assigned to a separate CPU
|
||||
core.
|
||||
|
||||
Spawning child processes
|
||||
------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
The simplest case is when you simply want to launch a process and know when it
|
||||
exits. This is achieved using ``uv_spawn``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: spawn/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/spawn/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 6-8,15-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 11,13-17
|
||||
|
||||
.. NOTE::
|
||||
|
||||
``options`` is implicitly initialized with zeros since it is a global
|
||||
variable. If you change ``options`` to a local variable, remember to
|
||||
initialize it to null out all unused fields::
|
||||
|
||||
uv_process_options_t options = {0};
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_process_t`` struct only acts as the handle, all options are set via
|
||||
``uv_process_options_t``. To simply launch a process, you need to set only the
|
||||
``file`` and ``args`` fields. ``file`` is the program to execute. Since
|
||||
``uv_spawn`` uses :man:`execvp(3)` internally, there is no need to supply the full
|
||||
path. Finally as per underlying conventions, **the arguments array has to be
|
||||
one larger than the number of arguments, with the last element being NULL**.
|
||||
|
||||
After the call to ``uv_spawn``, ``uv_process_t.pid`` will contain the process
|
||||
ID of the child process.
|
||||
|
||||
The exit callback will be invoked with the *exit status* and the type of *signal*
|
||||
which caused the exit.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: spawn/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/spawn/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 9-12
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 3
|
||||
|
||||
It is **required** to close the process watcher after the process exits.
|
||||
|
||||
Changing process parameters
|
||||
---------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Before the child process is launched you can control the execution environment
|
||||
using fields in ``uv_process_options_t``.
|
||||
|
||||
Change execution directory
|
||||
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Set ``uv_process_options_t.cwd`` to the corresponding directory.
|
||||
|
||||
Set environment variables
|
||||
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_process_options_t.env`` is a null-terminated array of strings, each of the
|
||||
form ``VAR=VALUE`` used to set up the environment variables for the process. Set
|
||||
this to ``NULL`` to inherit the environment from the parent (this) process.
|
||||
|
||||
Option flags
|
||||
++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Setting ``uv_process_options_t.flags`` to a bitwise OR of the following flags,
|
||||
modifies the child process behaviour:
|
||||
|
||||
* ``UV_PROCESS_SETUID`` - sets the child's execution user ID to ``uv_process_options_t.uid``.
|
||||
* ``UV_PROCESS_SETGID`` - sets the child's execution group ID to ``uv_process_options_t.gid``.
|
||||
|
||||
Changing the UID/GID is only supported on Unix, ``uv_spawn`` will fail on
|
||||
Windows with ``UV_ENOTSUP``.
|
||||
|
||||
* ``UV_PROCESS_WINDOWS_VERBATIM_ARGUMENTS`` - No quoting or escaping of
|
||||
``uv_process_options_t.args`` is done on Windows. Ignored on Unix.
|
||||
* ``UV_PROCESS_DETACHED`` - Starts the child process in a new session, which
|
||||
will keep running after the parent process exits. See example below.
|
||||
|
||||
Detaching processes
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Passing the flag ``UV_PROCESS_DETACHED`` can be used to launch daemons, or
|
||||
child processes which are independent of the parent so that the parent exiting
|
||||
does not affect it.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: detach/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/detach/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 9-30
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 12,19
|
||||
|
||||
Just remember that the handle is still monitoring the child, so your program
|
||||
won't exit. Use ``uv_unref()`` if you want to be more *fire-and-forget*.
|
||||
|
||||
Sending signals to processes
|
||||
----------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
libuv wraps the standard ``kill(2)`` system call on Unix and implements one
|
||||
with similar semantics on Windows, with *one caveat*: all of ``SIGTERM``,
|
||||
``SIGINT`` and ``SIGKILL``, lead to termination of the process. The signature
|
||||
of ``uv_kill`` is::
|
||||
|
||||
uv_err_t uv_kill(int pid, int signum);
|
||||
|
||||
For processes started using libuv, you may use ``uv_process_kill`` instead,
|
||||
which accepts the ``uv_process_t`` watcher as the first argument, rather than
|
||||
the pid. In this case, **remember to call** ``uv_close`` on the watcher.
|
||||
|
||||
Signals
|
||||
-------
|
||||
|
||||
libuv provides wrappers around Unix signals with `some Windows support
|
||||
<http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/signal.html#signal>`_ as well.
|
||||
|
||||
Use ``uv_signal_init()`` to initialize
|
||||
a handle and associate it with a loop. To listen for particular signals on
|
||||
that handler, use ``uv_signal_start()`` with the handler function. Each handler
|
||||
can only be associated with one signal number, with subsequent calls to
|
||||
``uv_signal_start()`` overwriting earlier associations. Use ``uv_signal_stop()`` to
|
||||
stop watching. Here is a small example demonstrating the various possibilities:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: signal/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/signal/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 17-18,27-28
|
||||
|
||||
.. NOTE::
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_run(loop, UV_RUN_NOWAIT)`` is similar to ``uv_run(loop, UV_RUN_ONCE)``
|
||||
in that it will process only one event. UV_RUN_ONCE blocks if there are no
|
||||
pending events, while UV_RUN_NOWAIT will return immediately. We use NOWAIT
|
||||
so that one of the loops isn't starved because the other one has no pending
|
||||
activity.
|
||||
|
||||
Send ``SIGUSR1`` to the process, and you'll find the handler being invoked
|
||||
4 times, one for each ``uv_signal_t``. The handler just stops each handle,
|
||||
so that the program exits. This sort of dispatch to all handlers is very
|
||||
useful. A server using multiple event loops could ensure that all data was
|
||||
safely saved before termination, simply by every loop adding a watcher for
|
||||
``SIGINT``.
|
||||
|
||||
Child Process I/O
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
A normal, newly spawned process has its own set of file descriptors, with 0,
|
||||
1 and 2 being ``stdin``, ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` respectively. Sometimes you
|
||||
may want to share file descriptors with the child. For example, perhaps your
|
||||
applications launches a sub-command and you want any errors to go in the log
|
||||
file, but ignore ``stdout``. For this you'd like to have ``stderr`` of the
|
||||
child be the same as the stderr of the parent. In this case, libuv supports
|
||||
*inheriting* file descriptors. In this sample, we invoke the test program,
|
||||
which is:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: proc-streams/test.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/proc-streams/test.c
|
||||
|
||||
The actual program ``proc-streams`` runs this while sharing only ``stderr``.
|
||||
The file descriptors of the child process are set using the ``stdio`` field in
|
||||
``uv_process_options_t``. First set the ``stdio_count`` field to the number of
|
||||
file descriptors being set. ``uv_process_options_t.stdio`` is an array of
|
||||
``uv_stdio_container_t``, which is:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
typedef struct uv_stdio_container_s {
|
||||
uv_stdio_flags flags;
|
||||
|
||||
union {
|
||||
uv_stream_t* stream;
|
||||
int fd;
|
||||
} data;
|
||||
} uv_stdio_container_t;
|
||||
|
||||
where flags can have several values. Use ``UV_IGNORE`` if it isn't going to be
|
||||
used. If the first three ``stdio`` fields are marked as ``UV_IGNORE`` they'll
|
||||
redirect to ``/dev/null``.
|
||||
|
||||
Since we want to pass on an existing descriptor, we'll use ``UV_INHERIT_FD``.
|
||||
Then we set the ``fd`` to ``stderr``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: proc-streams/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/proc-streams/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 15-17,27-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 6,10,11,12
|
||||
|
||||
If you run ``proc-stream`` you'll see that only the line "This is stderr" will
|
||||
be displayed. Try marking ``stdout`` as being inherited and see the output.
|
||||
|
||||
It is dead simple to apply this redirection to streams. By setting ``flags``
|
||||
to ``UV_INHERIT_STREAM`` and setting ``data.stream`` to the stream in the
|
||||
parent process, the child process can treat that stream as standard I/O. This
|
||||
can be used to implement something like CGI_.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _CGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
|
||||
|
||||
A sample CGI script/executable is:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: cgi/tick.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/cgi/tick.c
|
||||
|
||||
The CGI server combines the concepts from this chapter and :doc:`networking` so
|
||||
that every client is sent ten ticks after which that connection is closed.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: cgi/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/cgi/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 49-63
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 10
|
||||
|
||||
Here we simply accept the TCP connection and pass on the socket (*stream*) to
|
||||
``invoke_cgi_script``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: cgi/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/cgi/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 16, 25-45
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 8-9,18,20
|
||||
|
||||
The ``stdout`` of the CGI script is set to the socket so that whatever our tick
|
||||
script prints, gets sent to the client. By using processes, we can offload the
|
||||
read/write buffering to the operating system, so in terms of convenience this
|
||||
is great. Just be warned that creating processes is a costly task.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _pipes:
|
||||
|
||||
Parent-child IPC
|
||||
----------------
|
||||
|
||||
A parent and child can have one or two way communication over a pipe created by
|
||||
settings ``uv_stdio_container_t.flags`` to a bit-wise combination of
|
||||
``UV_CREATE_PIPE`` and ``UV_READABLE_PIPE`` or ``UV_WRITABLE_PIPE``. The
|
||||
read/write flag is from the perspective of the child process. In this case,
|
||||
the ``uv_stream_t* stream`` field must be set to point to an initialized,
|
||||
unopened ``uv_pipe_t`` instance.
|
||||
|
||||
New stdio Pipes
|
||||
+++++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_pipe_t`` structure represents more than just `pipe(7)`_ (or ``|``),
|
||||
but supports any streaming file-like objects. On Windows, the only object of
|
||||
that description is the `Named Pipe`_. On Unix, this could be any of `Unix
|
||||
Domain Socket`_, or derived from `mkfifo(1)`_, or it could actually be a
|
||||
`pipe(7)`_. When ``uv_spawn`` initializes a ``uv_pipe_t`` due to the
|
||||
`UV_CREATE_PIPE` flag, it opts for creating a `socketpair(2)`_.
|
||||
|
||||
This is intended for the purpose of allowing multiple libuv processes to
|
||||
communicate with IPC. This is discussed below.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _pipe(7): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pipe.7.html
|
||||
.. _mkfifo(1): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkfifo.1.html
|
||||
.. _socketpair(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/socketpair.2.html
|
||||
.. _Unix Domain Socket: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html
|
||||
.. _Named Pipe: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/named-pipes
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Arbitrary process IPC
|
||||
+++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
Since domain sockets [#]_ can have a well known name and a location in the
|
||||
file-system they can be used for IPC between unrelated processes. The D-BUS_
|
||||
system used by open source desktop environments uses domain sockets for event
|
||||
notification. Various applications can then react when a contact comes online
|
||||
or new hardware is detected. The MySQL server also runs a domain socket on
|
||||
which clients can interact with it.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _D-BUS: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
|
||||
|
||||
When using domain sockets, a client-server pattern is usually followed with the
|
||||
creator/owner of the socket acting as the server. After the initial setup,
|
||||
messaging is no different from TCP, so we'll re-use the echo server example.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: pipe-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/pipe-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 70-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 5,10,14
|
||||
|
||||
We name the socket ``echo.sock`` which means it will be created in the local
|
||||
directory. This socket now behaves no different from TCP sockets as far as
|
||||
the stream API is concerned. You can test this server using `socat`_::
|
||||
|
||||
$ socat - /path/to/socket
|
||||
|
||||
A client which wants to connect to a domain socket will use::
|
||||
|
||||
void uv_pipe_connect(uv_connect_t *req, uv_pipe_t *handle, const char *name, uv_connect_cb cb);
|
||||
|
||||
where ``name`` will be ``echo.sock`` or similar. On Unix systems, ``name`` must
|
||||
point to a valid file (e.g. ``/tmp/echo.sock``). On Windows, ``name`` follows a
|
||||
``\\?\pipe\echo.sock`` format.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _socat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
|
||||
|
||||
Sending file descriptors over pipes
|
||||
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
|
||||
The cool thing about domain sockets is that file descriptors can be exchanged
|
||||
between processes by sending them over a domain socket. This allows processes
|
||||
to hand off their I/O to other processes. Applications include load-balancing
|
||||
servers, worker processes and other ways to make optimum use of CPU. libuv only
|
||||
supports sending **TCP sockets or other pipes** over pipes for now.
|
||||
|
||||
To demonstrate, we will look at a echo server implementation that hands of
|
||||
clients to worker processes in a round-robin fashion. This program is a bit
|
||||
involved, and while only snippets are included in the book, it is recommended
|
||||
to read the full code to really understand it.
|
||||
|
||||
The worker process is quite simple, since the file-descriptor is handed over to
|
||||
it by the master.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: multi-echo-server/worker.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/multi-echo-server/worker.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 7-9,81-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 6-8
|
||||
|
||||
``queue`` is the pipe connected to the master process on the other end, along
|
||||
which new file descriptors get sent. It is important to set the ``ipc``
|
||||
argument of ``uv_pipe_init`` to 1 to indicate this pipe will be used for
|
||||
inter-process communication! Since the master will write the file handle to the
|
||||
standard input of the worker, we connect the pipe to ``stdin`` using
|
||||
``uv_pipe_open``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: multi-echo-server/worker.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/multi-echo-server/worker.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 51-79
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 10,15,20
|
||||
|
||||
First we call ``uv_pipe_pending_count()`` to ensure that a handle is available
|
||||
to read out. If your program could deal with different types of handles,
|
||||
``uv_pipe_pending_type()`` can be used to determine the type.
|
||||
Although ``accept`` seems odd in this code, it actually makes sense. What
|
||||
``accept`` traditionally does is get a file descriptor (the client) from
|
||||
another file descriptor (The listening socket). Which is exactly what we do
|
||||
here. Fetch the file descriptor (``client``) from ``queue``. From this point
|
||||
the worker does standard echo server stuff.
|
||||
|
||||
Turning now to the master, let's take a look at how the workers are launched to
|
||||
allow load balancing.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 9-13
|
||||
|
||||
The ``child_worker`` structure wraps the process, and the pipe between the
|
||||
master and the individual process.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 51,61-95
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 17,20-21
|
||||
|
||||
In setting up the workers, we use the nifty libuv function ``uv_cpu_info`` to
|
||||
get the number of CPUs so we can launch an equal number of workers. Again it is
|
||||
important to initialize the pipe acting as the IPC channel with the third
|
||||
argument as 1. We then indicate that the child process' ``stdin`` is to be
|
||||
a readable pipe (from the point of view of the child). Everything is
|
||||
straightforward till here. The workers are launched and waiting for file
|
||||
descriptors to be written to their standard input.
|
||||
|
||||
It is in ``on_new_connection`` (the TCP infrastructure is initialized in
|
||||
``main()``), that we accept the client socket and pass it along to the next
|
||||
worker in the round-robin.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/multi-echo-server/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 31-49
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 9,12-13
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_write2`` call handles all the abstraction and it is simply a matter of
|
||||
passing in the handle (``client``) as the right argument. With this our
|
||||
multi-process echo server is operational.
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks to Kyle for `pointing out`_ that ``uv_write2()`` requires a non-empty
|
||||
buffer even when sending handles.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _pointing out: https://github.com/nikhilm/uvbook/issues/56
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. [#] In this section domain sockets stands in for named pipes on Windows as
|
||||
well.
|
385
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/threads.rst
vendored
Normal file
385
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/threads.rst
vendored
Normal file
@ -0,0 +1,385 @@
|
||||
Threads
|
||||
=======
|
||||
|
||||
Wait a minute? Why are we on threads? Aren't event loops supposed to be **the
|
||||
way** to do *web-scale programming*? Well... no. Threads are still the medium in
|
||||
which processors do their jobs. Threads are therefore mighty useful sometimes, even
|
||||
though you might have to wade through various synchronization primitives.
|
||||
|
||||
Threads are used internally to fake the asynchronous nature of all of the system
|
||||
calls. libuv also uses threads to allow you, the application, to perform a task
|
||||
asynchronously that is actually blocking, by spawning a thread and collecting
|
||||
the result when it is done.
|
||||
|
||||
Today there are two predominant thread libraries: the Windows threads
|
||||
implementation and POSIX's :man:`pthreads(7)`. libuv's thread API is analogous to
|
||||
the pthreads API and often has similar semantics.
|
||||
|
||||
A notable aspect of libuv's thread facilities is that it is a self contained
|
||||
section within libuv. Whereas other features intimately depend on the event
|
||||
loop and callback principles, threads are complete agnostic, they block as
|
||||
required, signal errors directly via return values, and, as shown in the
|
||||
:ref:`first example <thread-create-example>`, don't even require a running
|
||||
event loop.
|
||||
|
||||
libuv's thread API is also very limited since the semantics and syntax of
|
||||
threads are different on all platforms, with different levels of completeness.
|
||||
|
||||
This chapter makes the following assumption: **There is only one event loop,
|
||||
running in one thread (the main thread)**. No other thread interacts
|
||||
with the event loop (except using ``uv_async_send``).
|
||||
|
||||
Core thread operations
|
||||
----------------------
|
||||
|
||||
There isn't much here, you just start a thread using ``uv_thread_create()`` and
|
||||
wait for it to close using ``uv_thread_join()``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _thread-create-example:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: thread-create/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/thread-create/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 26-36
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 3-7
|
||||
|
||||
.. tip::
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_thread_t`` is just an alias for ``pthread_t`` on Unix, but this is an
|
||||
implementation detail, avoid depending on it to always be true.
|
||||
|
||||
The second parameter is the function which will serve as the entry point for
|
||||
the thread, the last parameter is a ``void *`` argument which can be used to pass
|
||||
custom parameters to the thread. The function ``hare`` will now run in a separate
|
||||
thread, scheduled pre-emptively by the operating system:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: thread-create/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/thread-create/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 6-14
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2
|
||||
|
||||
Unlike ``pthread_join()`` which allows the target thread to pass back a value to
|
||||
the calling thread using a second parameter, ``uv_thread_join()`` does not. To
|
||||
send values use :ref:`inter-thread-communication`.
|
||||
|
||||
Synchronization Primitives
|
||||
--------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
This section is purposely spartan. This book is not about threads, so I only
|
||||
catalogue any surprises in the libuv APIs here. For the rest you can look at
|
||||
the :man:`pthreads(7)` man pages.
|
||||
|
||||
Mutexes
|
||||
~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The mutex functions are a **direct** map to the pthread equivalents.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: libuv mutex functions
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_mutex_init(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
int uv_mutex_init_recursive(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
void uv_mutex_destroy(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
void uv_mutex_lock(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
int uv_mutex_trylock(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
void uv_mutex_unlock(uv_mutex_t* handle);
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_mutex_init()``, ``uv_mutex_init_recursive()`` and ``uv_mutex_trylock()``
|
||||
functions will return 0 on success, and an error code otherwise.
|
||||
|
||||
If `libuv` has been compiled with debugging enabled, ``uv_mutex_destroy()``,
|
||||
``uv_mutex_lock()`` and ``uv_mutex_unlock()`` will ``abort()`` on error.
|
||||
Similarly ``uv_mutex_trylock()`` will abort if the error is anything *other
|
||||
than* ``EAGAIN`` or ``EBUSY``.
|
||||
|
||||
Recursive mutexes are supported, but you should not rely on them. Also, they
|
||||
should not be used with ``uv_cond_t`` variables.
|
||||
|
||||
The default BSD mutex implementation will raise an error if a thread which has
|
||||
locked a mutex attempts to lock it again. For example, a construct like::
|
||||
|
||||
uv_mutex_init(a_mutex);
|
||||
uv_mutex_lock(a_mutex);
|
||||
uv_thread_create(thread_id, entry, (void *)a_mutex);
|
||||
uv_mutex_lock(a_mutex);
|
||||
// more things here
|
||||
|
||||
can be used to wait until another thread initializes some stuff and then
|
||||
unlocks ``a_mutex`` but will lead to your program crashing if in debug mode, or
|
||||
return an error in the second call to ``uv_mutex_lock()``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. note::
|
||||
|
||||
Mutexes on Windows are always recursive.
|
||||
|
||||
Locks
|
||||
~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Read-write locks are a more granular access mechanism. Two readers can access
|
||||
shared memory at the same time. A writer may not acquire the lock when it is
|
||||
held by a reader. A reader or writer may not acquire a lock when a writer is
|
||||
holding it. Read-write locks are frequently used in databases. Here is a toy
|
||||
example.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: locks/main.c - simple rwlocks
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/locks/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 13,16,27,31,42,55
|
||||
|
||||
Run this and observe how the readers will sometimes overlap. In case of
|
||||
multiple writers, schedulers will usually give them higher priority, so if you
|
||||
add two writers, you'll see that both writers tend to finish first before the
|
||||
readers get a chance again.
|
||||
|
||||
We also use barriers in the above example so that the main thread can wait for
|
||||
all readers and writers to indicate they have ended.
|
||||
|
||||
Others
|
||||
~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
libuv also supports semaphores_, `condition variables`_ and barriers_ with APIs
|
||||
very similar to their pthread counterparts.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _semaphores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)
|
||||
.. _condition variables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(synchronization)#Condition_variables_2
|
||||
.. _barriers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_(computer_science)
|
||||
|
||||
In addition, libuv provides a convenience function ``uv_once()``. Multiple
|
||||
threads can attempt to call ``uv_once()`` with a given guard and a function
|
||||
pointer, **only the first one will win, the function will be called once and
|
||||
only once**::
|
||||
|
||||
/* Initialize guard */
|
||||
static uv_once_t once_only = UV_ONCE_INIT;
|
||||
|
||||
int i = 0;
|
||||
|
||||
void increment() {
|
||||
i++;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
void thread1() {
|
||||
/* ... work */
|
||||
uv_once(once_only, increment);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
void thread2() {
|
||||
/* ... work */
|
||||
uv_once(once_only, increment);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
int main() {
|
||||
/* ... spawn threads */
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
After all threads are done, ``i == 1``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _libuv-work-queue:
|
||||
|
||||
libuv v0.11.11 onwards also added a ``uv_key_t`` struct and api_ for
|
||||
thread-local storage.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _api: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/threading.html#thread-local-storage
|
||||
|
||||
libuv work queue
|
||||
----------------
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_queue_work()`` is a convenience function that allows an application to run
|
||||
a task in a separate thread, and have a callback that is triggered when the
|
||||
task is done. A seemingly simple function, what makes ``uv_queue_work()``
|
||||
tempting is that it allows potentially any third-party libraries to be used
|
||||
with the event-loop paradigm. When you use event loops, it is *imperative to
|
||||
make sure that no function which runs periodically in the loop thread blocks
|
||||
when performing I/O or is a serious CPU hog*, because this means that the loop
|
||||
slows down and events are not being handled at full capacity.
|
||||
|
||||
However, a lot of existing code out there features blocking functions (for example
|
||||
a routine which performs I/O under the hood) to be used with threads if you
|
||||
want responsiveness (the classic 'one thread per client' server model), and
|
||||
getting them to play with an event loop library generally involves rolling your
|
||||
own system of running the task in a separate thread. libuv just provides
|
||||
a convenient abstraction for this.
|
||||
|
||||
Here is a simple example inspired by `node.js is cancer`_. We are going to
|
||||
calculate fibonacci numbers, sleeping a bit along the way, but run it in
|
||||
a separate thread so that the blocking and CPU bound task does not prevent the
|
||||
event loop from performing other activities.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: queue-work/main.c - lazy fibonacci
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/queue-work/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 17-29
|
||||
|
||||
The actual task function is simple, nothing to show that it is going to be
|
||||
run in a separate thread. The ``uv_work_t`` structure is the clue. You can pass
|
||||
arbitrary data through it using the ``void* data`` field and use it to
|
||||
communicate to and from the thread. But be sure you are using proper locks if
|
||||
you are changing things while both threads may be running.
|
||||
|
||||
The trigger is ``uv_queue_work``:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: queue-work/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/queue-work/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 31-44
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 10
|
||||
|
||||
The thread function will be launched in a separate thread, passed the
|
||||
``uv_work_t`` structure and once the function returns, the *after* function
|
||||
will be called on the thread the event loop is running in. It will be passed
|
||||
the same structure.
|
||||
|
||||
For writing wrappers to blocking libraries, a common :ref:`pattern <baton>`
|
||||
is to use a baton to exchange data.
|
||||
|
||||
Since libuv version `0.9.4` an additional function, ``uv_cancel()``, is
|
||||
available. This allows you to cancel tasks on the libuv work queue. Only tasks
|
||||
that *are yet to be started* can be cancelled. If a task has *already started
|
||||
executing, or it has finished executing*, ``uv_cancel()`` **will fail**.
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_cancel()`` is useful to cleanup pending tasks if the user requests
|
||||
termination. For example, a music player may queue up multiple directories to
|
||||
be scanned for audio files. If the user terminates the program, it should quit
|
||||
quickly and not wait until all pending requests are run.
|
||||
|
||||
Let's modify the fibonacci example to demonstrate ``uv_cancel()``. We first set
|
||||
up a signal handler for termination.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 43-
|
||||
|
||||
When the user triggers the signal by pressing ``Ctrl+C`` we send
|
||||
``uv_cancel()`` to all the workers. ``uv_cancel()`` will return ``0`` for those that are already executing or finished.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 33-41
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 6
|
||||
|
||||
For tasks that do get cancelled successfully, the *after* function is called
|
||||
with ``status`` set to ``UV_ECANCELED``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/queue-cancel/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 28-31
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_cancel()`` can also be used with ``uv_fs_t`` and ``uv_getaddrinfo_t``
|
||||
requests. For the filesystem family of functions, ``uv_fs_t.errorno`` will be
|
||||
set to ``UV_ECANCELED``.
|
||||
|
||||
.. TIP::
|
||||
|
||||
A well designed program would have a way to terminate long running workers
|
||||
that have already started executing. Such a worker could periodically check
|
||||
for a variable that only the main process sets to signal termination.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _inter-thread-communication:
|
||||
|
||||
Inter-thread communication
|
||||
--------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Sometimes you want various threads to actually send each other messages *while*
|
||||
they are running. For example you might be running some long duration task in
|
||||
a separate thread (perhaps using ``uv_queue_work``) but want to notify progress
|
||||
to the main thread. This is a simple example of having a download manager
|
||||
informing the user of the status of running downloads.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: progress/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/progress/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 7-8,35-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2,11
|
||||
|
||||
The async thread communication works *on loops* so although any thread can be
|
||||
the message sender, only threads with libuv loops can be receivers (or rather
|
||||
the loop is the receiver). libuv will invoke the callback (``print_progress``)
|
||||
with the async watcher whenever it receives a message.
|
||||
|
||||
.. warning::
|
||||
|
||||
It is important to realize that since the message send is *async*, the callback
|
||||
may be invoked immediately after ``uv_async_send`` is called in another
|
||||
thread, or it may be invoked after some time. libuv may also combine
|
||||
multiple calls to ``uv_async_send`` and invoke your callback only once. The
|
||||
only guarantee that libuv makes is -- The callback function is called *at
|
||||
least once* after the call to ``uv_async_send``. If you have no pending
|
||||
calls to ``uv_async_send``, the callback won't be called. If you make two
|
||||
or more calls, and libuv hasn't had a chance to run the callback yet, it
|
||||
*may* invoke your callback *only once* for the multiple invocations of
|
||||
``uv_async_send``. Your callback will never be called twice for just one
|
||||
event.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: progress/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/progress/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 10-24
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 7-8
|
||||
|
||||
In the download function, we modify the progress indicator and queue the message
|
||||
for delivery with ``uv_async_send``. Remember: ``uv_async_send`` is also
|
||||
non-blocking and will return immediately.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: progress/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/progress/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 31-34
|
||||
|
||||
The callback is a standard libuv pattern, extracting the data from the watcher.
|
||||
|
||||
Finally it is important to remember to clean up the watcher.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: progress/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/progress/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 26-29
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 3
|
||||
|
||||
After this example, which showed the abuse of the ``data`` field, bnoordhuis_
|
||||
pointed out that using the ``data`` field is not thread safe, and
|
||||
``uv_async_send()`` is actually only meant to wake up the event loop. Use
|
||||
a mutex or rwlock to ensure accesses are performed in the right order.
|
||||
|
||||
.. note::
|
||||
|
||||
mutexes and rwlocks **DO NOT** work inside a signal handler, whereas
|
||||
``uv_async_send`` does.
|
||||
|
||||
One use case where ``uv_async_send`` is required is when interoperating with
|
||||
libraries that require thread affinity for their functionality. For example in
|
||||
node.js, a v8 engine instance, contexts and its objects are bound to the thread
|
||||
that the v8 instance was started in. Interacting with v8 data structures from
|
||||
another thread can lead to undefined results. Now consider some node.js module
|
||||
which binds a third party library. It may go something like this:
|
||||
|
||||
1. In node, the third party library is set up with a JavaScript callback to be
|
||||
invoked for more information::
|
||||
|
||||
var lib = require('lib');
|
||||
lib.on_progress(function() {
|
||||
console.log("Progress");
|
||||
});
|
||||
|
||||
lib.do();
|
||||
|
||||
// do other stuff
|
||||
|
||||
2. ``lib.do`` is supposed to be non-blocking but the third party lib is
|
||||
blocking, so the binding uses ``uv_queue_work``.
|
||||
|
||||
3. The actual work being done in a separate thread wants to invoke the progress
|
||||
callback, but cannot directly call into v8 to interact with JavaScript. So
|
||||
it uses ``uv_async_send``.
|
||||
|
||||
4. The async callback, invoked in the main loop thread, which is the v8 thread,
|
||||
then interacts with v8 to invoke the JavaScript callback.
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. _node.js is cancer: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
|
||||
.. _bnoordhuis: https://github.com/bnoordhuis
|
437
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/utilities.rst
vendored
Normal file
437
deps/libuv/docs/src/guide/utilities.rst
vendored
Normal file
@ -0,0 +1,437 @@
|
||||
Utilities
|
||||
=========
|
||||
|
||||
This chapter catalogues tools and techniques which are useful for common tasks.
|
||||
The `libev man page`_ already covers some patterns which can be adopted to
|
||||
libuv through simple API changes. It also covers parts of the libuv API that
|
||||
don't require entire chapters dedicated to them.
|
||||
|
||||
Timers
|
||||
------
|
||||
|
||||
Timers invoke the callback after a certain time has elapsed since the timer was
|
||||
started. libuv timers can also be set to invoke at regular intervals instead of
|
||||
just once.
|
||||
|
||||
Simple use is to init a watcher and start it with a ``timeout``, and optional ``repeat``.
|
||||
Timers can be stopped at any time.
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
uv_timer_t timer_req;
|
||||
|
||||
uv_timer_init(loop, &timer_req);
|
||||
uv_timer_start(&timer_req, callback, 5000, 2000);
|
||||
|
||||
will start a repeating timer, which first starts 5 seconds (the ``timeout``) after the execution
|
||||
of ``uv_timer_start``, then repeats every 2 seconds (the ``repeat``). Use:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
|
||||
uv_timer_stop(&timer_req);
|
||||
|
||||
to stop the timer. This can be used safely from within the callback as well.
|
||||
|
||||
The repeat interval can be modified at any time with::
|
||||
|
||||
uv_timer_set_repeat(uv_timer_t *timer, int64_t repeat);
|
||||
|
||||
which will take effect **when possible**. If this function is called from
|
||||
a timer callback, it means:
|
||||
|
||||
* If the timer was non-repeating, the timer has already been stopped. Use
|
||||
``uv_timer_start`` again.
|
||||
* If the timer is repeating, the next timeout has already been scheduled, so
|
||||
the old repeat interval will be used once more before the timer switches to
|
||||
the new interval.
|
||||
|
||||
The utility function::
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_timer_again(uv_timer_t *)
|
||||
|
||||
applies **only to repeating timers** and is equivalent to stopping the timer
|
||||
and then starting it with both initial ``timeout`` and ``repeat`` set to the
|
||||
old ``repeat`` value. If the timer hasn't been started it fails (error code
|
||||
``UV_EINVAL``) and returns -1.
|
||||
|
||||
An actual timer example is in the :ref:`reference count section
|
||||
<reference-count>`.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _reference-count:
|
||||
|
||||
Event loop reference count
|
||||
--------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
The event loop only runs as long as there are active handles. This system
|
||||
works by having every handle increase the reference count of the event loop
|
||||
when it is started and decreasing the reference count when stopped. It is also
|
||||
possible to manually change the reference count of handles using::
|
||||
|
||||
void uv_ref(uv_handle_t*);
|
||||
void uv_unref(uv_handle_t*);
|
||||
|
||||
These functions can be used to allow a loop to exit even when a watcher is
|
||||
active or to use custom objects to keep the loop alive.
|
||||
|
||||
The latter can be used with interval timers. You might have a garbage collector
|
||||
which runs every X seconds, or your network service might send a heartbeat to
|
||||
others periodically, but you don't want to have to stop them along all clean
|
||||
exit paths or error scenarios. Or you want the program to exit when all your
|
||||
other watchers are done. In that case just unref the timer immediately after
|
||||
creation so that if it is the only watcher running then ``uv_run`` will still
|
||||
exit.
|
||||
|
||||
This is also used in node.js where some libuv methods are being bubbled up to
|
||||
the JS API. A ``uv_handle_t`` (the superclass of all watchers) is created per
|
||||
JS object and can be ref/unrefed.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: ref-timer/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/ref-timer/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 5-8, 17-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 9
|
||||
|
||||
We initialize the garbage collector timer, then immediately ``unref`` it.
|
||||
Observe how after 9 seconds, when the fake job is done, the program
|
||||
automatically exits, even though the garbage collector is still running.
|
||||
|
||||
Idler pattern
|
||||
-------------
|
||||
|
||||
The callbacks of idle handles are invoked once per event loop. The idle
|
||||
callback can be used to perform some very low priority activity. For example,
|
||||
you could dispatch a summary of the daily application performance to the
|
||||
developers for analysis during periods of idleness, or use the application's
|
||||
CPU time to perform SETI calculations :) An idle watcher is also useful in
|
||||
a GUI application. Say you are using an event loop for a file download. If the
|
||||
TCP socket is still being established and no other events are present your
|
||||
event loop will pause (**block**), which means your progress bar will freeze
|
||||
and the user will face an unresponsive application. In such a case queue up and
|
||||
idle watcher to keep the UI operational.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: idle-compute/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/idle-compute/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 5-9, 34-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 13
|
||||
|
||||
Here we initialize the idle watcher and queue it up along with the actual
|
||||
events we are interested in. ``crunch_away`` will now be called repeatedly
|
||||
until the user types something and presses Return. Then it will be interrupted
|
||||
for a brief amount as the loop deals with the input data, after which it will
|
||||
keep calling the idle callback again.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: idle-compute/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/idle-compute/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 10-19
|
||||
|
||||
.. _baton:
|
||||
|
||||
Passing data to worker thread
|
||||
-----------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
When using ``uv_queue_work`` you'll usually need to pass complex data through
|
||||
to the worker thread. The solution is to use a ``struct`` and set
|
||||
``uv_work_t.data`` to point to it. A slight variation is to have the
|
||||
``uv_work_t`` itself as the first member of this struct (called a baton [#]_).
|
||||
This allows cleaning up the work request and all the data in one free call.
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2
|
||||
|
||||
struct ftp_baton {
|
||||
uv_work_t req;
|
||||
char *host;
|
||||
int port;
|
||||
char *username;
|
||||
char *password;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2
|
||||
|
||||
ftp_baton *baton = (ftp_baton*) malloc(sizeof(ftp_baton));
|
||||
baton->req.data = (void*) baton;
|
||||
baton->host = strdup("my.webhost.com");
|
||||
baton->port = 21;
|
||||
// ...
|
||||
|
||||
uv_queue_work(loop, &baton->req, ftp_session, ftp_cleanup);
|
||||
|
||||
Here we create the baton and queue the task.
|
||||
|
||||
Now the task function can extract the data it needs:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2, 12
|
||||
|
||||
void ftp_session(uv_work_t *req) {
|
||||
ftp_baton *baton = (ftp_baton*) req->data;
|
||||
|
||||
fprintf(stderr, "Connecting to %s\n", baton->host);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
void ftp_cleanup(uv_work_t *req) {
|
||||
ftp_baton *baton = (ftp_baton*) req->data;
|
||||
|
||||
free(baton->host);
|
||||
// ...
|
||||
free(baton);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
We then free the baton which also frees the watcher.
|
||||
|
||||
External I/O with polling
|
||||
-------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Usually third-party libraries will handle their own I/O, and keep track of
|
||||
their sockets and other files internally. In this case it isn't possible to use
|
||||
the standard stream I/O operations, but the library can still be integrated
|
||||
into the libuv event loop. All that is required is that the library allow you
|
||||
to access the underlying file descriptors and provide functions that process
|
||||
tasks in small increments as decided by your application. Some libraries though
|
||||
will not allow such access, providing only a standard blocking function which
|
||||
will perform the entire I/O transaction and only then return. It is unwise to
|
||||
use these in the event loop thread, use the :ref:`threadpool` instead. Of
|
||||
course, this will also mean losing granular control on the library.
|
||||
|
||||
The ``uv_poll`` section of libuv simply watches file descriptors using the
|
||||
operating system notification mechanism. In some sense, all the I/O operations
|
||||
that libuv implements itself are also backed by ``uv_poll`` like code. Whenever
|
||||
the OS notices a change of state in file descriptors being polled, libuv will
|
||||
invoke the associated callback.
|
||||
|
||||
Here we will walk through a simple download manager that will use libcurl_ to
|
||||
download files. Rather than give all control to libcurl, we'll instead be
|
||||
using the libuv event loop, and use the non-blocking, async multi_ interface to
|
||||
progress with the download whenever libuv notifies of I/O readiness.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _libcurl: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
|
||||
.. _multi: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvwget/main.c - The setup
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvwget/main.c
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:linenos:
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:lines: 1-9,140-
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:emphasize-lines: 7,21,24-25
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The way each library is integrated with libuv will vary. In the case of
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libcurl, we can register two callbacks. The socket callback ``handle_socket``
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is invoked whenever the state of a socket changes and we have to start polling
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it. ``start_timeout`` is called by libcurl to notify us of the next timeout
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interval, after which we should drive libcurl forward regardless of I/O status.
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This is so that libcurl can handle errors or do whatever else is required to
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get the download moving.
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Our downloader is to be invoked as::
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$ ./uvwget [url1] [url2] ...
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So we add each argument as an URL
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.. rubric:: uvwget/main.c - Adding urls
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.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvwget/main.c
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:linenos:
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:lines: 39-56
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:emphasize-lines: 13-14
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We let libcurl directly write the data to a file, but much more is possible if
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you so desire.
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``start_timeout`` will be called immediately the first time by libcurl, so
|
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things are set in motion. This simply starts a libuv `timer <#timers>`_ which
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drives ``curl_multi_socket_action`` with ``CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT`` whenever it
|
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times out. ``curl_multi_socket_action`` is what drives libcurl, and what we
|
||||
call whenever sockets change state. But before we go into that, we need to poll
|
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on sockets whenever ``handle_socket`` is called.
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.. rubric:: uvwget/main.c - Setting up polling
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.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvwget/main.c
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:linenos:
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:lines: 102-140
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:emphasize-lines: 9,11,15,21,24
|
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|
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We are interested in the socket fd ``s``, and the ``action``. For every socket
|
||||
we create a ``uv_poll_t`` handle if it doesn't exist, and associate it with the
|
||||
socket using ``curl_multi_assign``. This way ``socketp`` points to it whenever
|
||||
the callback is invoked.
|
||||
|
||||
In the case that the download is done or fails, libcurl requests removal of the
|
||||
poll. So we stop and free the poll handle.
|
||||
|
||||
Depending on what events libcurl wishes to watch for, we start polling with
|
||||
``UV_READABLE`` or ``UV_WRITABLE``. Now libuv will invoke the poll callback
|
||||
whenever the socket is ready for reading or writing. Calling ``uv_poll_start``
|
||||
multiple times on the same handle is acceptable, it will just update the events
|
||||
mask with the new value. ``curl_perform`` is the crux of this program.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvwget/main.c - Driving libcurl.
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvwget/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 81-95
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 2,6-7,12
|
||||
|
||||
The first thing we do is to stop the timer, since there has been some progress
|
||||
in the interval. Then depending on what event triggered the callback, we set
|
||||
the correct flags. Then we call ``curl_multi_socket_action`` with the socket
|
||||
that progressed and the flags informing about what events happened. At this
|
||||
point libcurl does all of its internal tasks in small increments, and will
|
||||
attempt to return as fast as possible, which is exactly what an evented program
|
||||
wants in its main thread. libcurl keeps queueing messages into its own queue
|
||||
about transfer progress. In our case we are only interested in transfers that
|
||||
are completed. So we extract these messages, and clean up handles whose
|
||||
transfers are done.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: uvwget/main.c - Reading transfer status.
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/uvwget/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 58-79
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 6,9-10,13-14
|
||||
|
||||
Check & Prepare watchers
|
||||
------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
TODO
|
||||
|
||||
Loading libraries
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
libuv provides a cross platform API to dynamically load `shared libraries`_.
|
||||
This can be used to implement your own plugin/extension/module system and is
|
||||
used by node.js to implement ``require()`` support for bindings. The usage is
|
||||
quite simple as long as your library exports the right symbols. Be careful with
|
||||
sanity and security checks when loading third party code, otherwise your
|
||||
program will behave unpredictably. This example implements a very simple
|
||||
plugin system which does nothing except print the name of the plugin.
|
||||
|
||||
Let us first look at the interface provided to plugin authors.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: plugin/plugin.h
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/plugin/plugin.h
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
|
||||
You can similarly add more functions that plugin authors can use to do useful
|
||||
things in your application [#]_. A sample plugin using this API is:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: plugin/hello.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/plugin/hello.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
|
||||
Our interface defines that all plugins should have an ``initialize`` function
|
||||
which will be called by the application. This plugin is compiled as a shared
|
||||
library and can be loaded by running our application::
|
||||
|
||||
$ ./plugin libhello.dylib
|
||||
Loading libhello.dylib
|
||||
Registered plugin "Hello World!"
|
||||
|
||||
.. NOTE::
|
||||
|
||||
The shared library filename will be different depending on platforms. On
|
||||
Linux it is ``libhello.so``.
|
||||
|
||||
This is done by using ``uv_dlopen`` to first load the shared library
|
||||
``libhello.dylib``. Then we get access to the ``initialize`` function using
|
||||
``uv_dlsym`` and invoke it.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: plugin/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/plugin/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:lines: 7-
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 15, 18, 24
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_dlopen`` expects a path to the shared library and sets the opaque
|
||||
``uv_lib_t`` pointer. It returns 0 on success, -1 on error. Use ``uv_dlerror``
|
||||
to get the error message.
|
||||
|
||||
``uv_dlsym`` stores a pointer to the symbol in the second argument in the third
|
||||
argument. ``init_plugin_function`` is a function pointer to the sort of
|
||||
function we are looking for in the application's plugins.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _shared libraries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_library#Shared_libraries
|
||||
|
||||
TTY
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Text terminals have supported basic formatting for a long time, with a `pretty
|
||||
standardised`_ command set. This formatting is often used by programs to
|
||||
improve the readability of terminal output. For example ``grep --colour``.
|
||||
libuv provides the ``uv_tty_t`` abstraction (a stream) and related functions to
|
||||
implement the ANSI escape codes across all platforms. By this I mean that libuv
|
||||
converts ANSI codes to the Windows equivalent, and provides functions to get
|
||||
terminal information.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _pretty standardised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_sequences
|
||||
|
||||
The first thing to do is to initialize a ``uv_tty_t`` with the file descriptor
|
||||
it reads/writes from. This is achieved with::
|
||||
|
||||
int uv_tty_init(uv_loop_t*, uv_tty_t*, uv_file fd, int unused)
|
||||
|
||||
The ``unused`` parameter is now auto-detected and ignored. It previously needed
|
||||
to be set to use ``uv_read_start()`` on the stream.
|
||||
|
||||
It is then best to use ``uv_tty_set_mode`` to set the mode to *normal*
|
||||
which enables most TTY formatting, flow-control and other settings. Other_ modes
|
||||
are also available.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _Other: http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/tty.html#c.uv_tty_mode_t
|
||||
|
||||
Remember to call ``uv_tty_reset_mode`` when your program exits to restore the
|
||||
state of the terminal. Just good manners. Another set of good manners is to be
|
||||
aware of redirection. If the user redirects the output of your command to
|
||||
a file, control sequences should not be written as they impede readability and
|
||||
``grep``. To check if the file descriptor is indeed a TTY, call
|
||||
``uv_guess_handle`` with the file descriptor and compare the return value with
|
||||
``UV_TTY``.
|
||||
|
||||
Here is a simple example which prints white text on a red background:
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: tty/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/tty/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 11-12,14,17,27
|
||||
|
||||
The final TTY helper is ``uv_tty_get_winsize()`` which is used to get the
|
||||
width and height of the terminal and returns ``0`` on success. Here is a small
|
||||
program which does some animation using the function and character position
|
||||
escape codes.
|
||||
|
||||
.. rubric:: tty-gravity/main.c
|
||||
.. literalinclude:: ../../code/tty-gravity/main.c
|
||||
:linenos:
|
||||
:emphasize-lines: 19,25,38
|
||||
|
||||
The escape codes are:
|
||||
|
||||
====== =======================
|
||||
Code Meaning
|
||||
====== =======================
|
||||
*2* J Clear part of the screen, 2 is entire screen
|
||||
H Moves cursor to certain position, default top-left
|
||||
*n* B Moves cursor down by n lines
|
||||
*n* C Moves cursor right by n columns
|
||||
m Obeys string of display settings, in this case green background (40+2), white text (30+7)
|
||||
====== =======================
|
||||
|
||||
As you can see this is very useful to produce nicely formatted output, or even
|
||||
console based arcade games if that tickles your fancy. For fancier control you
|
||||
can try `ncurses`_.
|
||||
|
||||
.. _ncurses: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html
|
||||
|
||||
.. versionchanged:: 1.23.1: the `readable` parameter is now unused and ignored.
|
||||
The appropriate value will now be auto-detected from the kernel.
|
||||
|
||||
----
|
||||
|
||||
.. [#] I was first introduced to the term baton in this context, in Konstantin
|
||||
Käfer's excellent slides on writing node.js bindings --
|
||||
https://kkaefer.com/node-cpp-modules/#baton
|
||||
.. [#] mfp is My Fancy Plugin
|
||||
|
||||
.. _libev man page: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#COMMON_OR_USEFUL_IDIOMS_OR_BOTH
|
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