* Eliminate all uses of `std.debug.print` in make() functions, instead
properly using the step failure reporting mechanism.
* Introduce the concept of skipped build steps. These do not cause the
build to fail, and they do allow their dependants to run.
* RunStep gains a new flag, `skip_foreign_checks` which causes the
RunStep to be skipped if stdio mode is `check` and the binary cannot
be executed due to it being a foreign executable.
- RunStep is improved to automatically use known interpreters to
execute binaries if possible (integrating with flags such as
-fqemu and -fwasmtime). It only does this after attempting a native
execution and receiving a "exec file format" error.
- Update RunStep to use an ArrayList for the checks rather than this
ad-hoc reallocation/copying mechanism.
- `expectStdOutEqual` now also implicitly adds an exit_code==0 check
if there is not already an expected termination. This matches
previously expected behavior from older API and can be overridden by
directly setting the checks array.
* Add `dest_sub_path` to `InstallArtifactStep` which allows choosing an
arbitrary subdirectory relative to the prefix, as well as overriding
the basename.
- Delete the custom InstallWithRename step that I found deep in the
test/ directory.
* WriteFileStep will now update its step display name after the first
file is added.
* Add missing stdout checks to various standalone test case build
scripts.
Today I found out that posix_spawn is trash. It's actually implemented
on top of fork/exec inside of libc (or libSystem in the case of macOS).
So, anything posix_spawn can do, we can do better. In particular, what
we can do better is handle spawning of child processes that are
potentially foreign binaries. If you try to spawn a wasm binary, for
example, posix spawn does the following:
* Goes ahead and creates a child process.
* The child process writes "foo.wasm: foo.wasm: cannot execute binary file"
to stderr (yes, it prints the filename twice).
* The child process then exits with code 126.
This behavior is indistinguishable from the binary being successfully
spawned, and then printing to stderr, and exiting with a failure -
something that is an extremely common occurrence.
Meanwhile, using the lower level fork/exec will simply return ENOEXEC
code from the execve syscall (which is mapped to zig error.InvalidExe).
The posix_spawn behavior means the zig build runner can't tell the
difference between a failure to run a foreign binary, and a binary that
did run, but failed in some other fashion. This is unacceptable, because
attempting to excecve is the proper way to support things like Rosetta.
Previously, this API had pid, to be used on POSIX systems, and handle,
to be used on Windows.
This commit unifies the API, defining an Id type that is either the pid
or the HANDLE depending on the target OS.
This commit also prepares for the future by allowing one to import via
`std.process.Child` which is the fully qualified namespace that I intend
to migrate to in the future.
Previously, the implementation would essentially check `startsWith` instead of `eql` (e.g. it would return true for `.exec` because it erroneously 'matched' `.exe`).
Follow up to #13993
Fixes a regression caused by https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/13983
From the added comment:
We still search the path if the cwd is absolute because of the
"cwd set in ChildProcess is in effect when choosing the executable path
to match posix semantics" behavior--we don't want to skip searching
the PATH just because we were trying to set the cwd of the child process.
The name of the game here is to avoid CreateProcessW calls at all costs,
and only ever try calling it when we have a real candidate for execution.
Secondarily, we want to minimize the number of syscalls used when checking
for each PATHEXT-appended version of the app name.
An overview of the technique used:
- Open the search directory for iteration (either cwd or a path from PATH)
- Use NtQueryDirectoryFile with a wildcard filename of `<app name>*` to
check if anything that could possibly match either the unappended version
of the app name or any of the versions with a PATHEXT value appended exists.
- If the wildcard NtQueryDirectoryFile call found nothing, we can exit early
without needing to use PATHEXT at all.
This allows us to use a <open dir, NtQueryDirectoryFile, close dir> sequence
for any directory that doesn't contain any possible matches, instead of having
to use a separate look up for each individual filename combination (unappended +
each PATHEXT appended). For directories where the wildcard *does* match something,
we only need to do a maximum of <number of supported PATHEXT extensions> more
NtQueryDirectoryFile calls.
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In addition, we now only evaluate the extensions in PATHEXT that we know we can handle (.COM, .EXE, .BAT, .CMD) and ignore the rest.
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This commit also makes two edge cases match Windows behavior:
- If an app name has the extension .exe and it is attempted to be executed, that is now treated as unrecoverable and InvalidExe is immediately returned no matter where the .exe is (cwd or in the PATH). This matches the behavior of the Windows cmd.exe.
- If the app name contains more than just a filename (e.g. it has path separators), then it is excluded from PATH searching and only does a cwd search. This matches the behavior of Windows cmd.exe.
This matches `cmd.exe` behavior. For example, if there is only a file named `mycommand` in the cwd but it is a Linux executable, then running the command `mycommand` will result in:
'mycommand' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
However, if there is *both* a `mycommand` (that is a Linux executable) and a `mycommand.exe` that is a valid Windows exe, then running the command `mycommand` will successfully run `mycommand.exe`.
Avoid a lot of unnecessary utf8 -> utf16 conversion and use a single ArrayList buffer for all the joined paths instead of a separate allocation for each join
For example, if the command is specified as `something.exe`, the retry will now try:
```
C:\some\path\something.exe
C:\some\path\something.exe.COM
C:\some\path\something.exe.EXE
C:\some\path\something.exe.BAT
... etc ...
```
whereas before it would only try the versions with an added extension from `PATHEXT`, which would cause the retry to fail on things that it should find.
When linking libc and compiling natively, Zig tries to integrate with
the system C compiler. However, this caused Zig to fail when no system C
compiler is installed, despite the fact that Zig is perfectly capable of
compiling & linking libc without one.
This commit makes Zig fall back to using its own ability to provide libc
in the case that no C compiler is installed. For glibc, it means
sometimes getting the warning "zig cannot build new glibc version abc,
providing instead xyz".
Ideally, Zig would do some more validation about the system libraries
being linked against, and report an error in case it could not provide
the exact correct libc version of the system libraries (or that the
system libraries themselves conflict with each other), however, I think
it is fair to call that a separate enhancement.
This tight coupling causes problems for various targets, requires
hacky "get args" functionality, and bungles relative file system paths,
making invalid assumptions about the zig-cache directory.
In short, these are not unit tests; these should be standalone tests
instead.
Reverts e5d4a694ea
Reverts d976456ef6
Reverts dbbda0f41aCloses#11542
Instead, just return ChildProcess directly. This structure does not
require a stable address, so we can put it on the stack just fine. If
someone wants it on the heap they should do.
const proc = try allocator.create(ChildProcess);
proc.* = ChildProcess.init(args, allocator);
This reverts commit 7f13f5cd5f.
I'd like to review this one before it goes in. This is an awfully
specific API that I don't think belongs in std.testing. Also I don't
want any code snippets in doc strings. We have doctests for that.
* remove need for manual string concatenation for building binaries in test blocks
* include small program snippet to show how to get binary path with subslicing
When a child process with stdin, stdout behavior set to pipe is
ran on macos it used to hang which has been fixed. Issue existed because
we forgot to call `posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose` syscall on user
exposed file descriptor which resulted on file descriptor not closing
properly.
continuation of #11093 to simplify testing IPC
* use cases
- get path to temporary directory
- get the test arguments inside test block for reusage
- build executables from text within test blocks, ie to test IPC
* missing conventions
- how to name and debug test cases
- where do simple+repititve build commands for testing belong
Currently, the new API will only be available on macOS with
the intention of adding more POSIX systems to it incrementally
(such as Linux, etc.).
Changes:
* add `posix_spawn` wrappers in a separate container in
`os/posix_spawn.zig`
* rewrite `ChildProcess.spawnPosix` using `posix_spawn` targeting macOS
as `ChildProcess.spawnMacos`
* introduce a `posix_spawn` specific `std.c.waitpid` wrapper which
does return an error in case the child process failed to exec - this
is required for any process that was spawned using `posix_spawn`
mechanism as, by definition, the errors returned by `posix_spawn`
routine cover only the `fork`-equivalent; `pre-exec()` and `exec()`
steps are covered by a catch-all error `ECHILD` returned by `waitpid`
on unsuccessful execution, e.g., no such file error, etc.
- Cli operations should be refactored, since the standard test runner
has an expected argument structure. This would also ensure that the
test cli is usable as tested library with checks for subprocess
error or success instead of "hacky shell script interfaces".
- Default paths generation based on tmpDir would also be useful.
- Anonymous pipes on windows are generated from named pipes
- Async IO does not work on anonymous pipes
- Remove finished TODO
This adds a special CWD file descriptor, AT.FDCWD (-2), to refer to the
current working directory. The `*at(...)` functions look for this and
resolve relative paths against the stored CWD. Absolute paths are
dynamically matched against the stored Preopens.
"os.initPreopensWasi()" must be called before std.os functions will
resolve relative or absolute paths correctly. This is asserted at
runtime.
Support has been added for: `open`, `rename`, `mkdir`, `rmdir`, `chdir`,
`fchdir`, `link`, `symlink`, `unlink`, `readlink`, `fstatat`, `access`,
and `faccessat`.
This also includes limited support for `getcwd()` and `realpath()`.
These return an error if the CWD does not correspond to a Preopen with
an absolute path. They also do not currently expand symlinks.
In accordance with the requesting issue (#10750):
- `zig test` skips any tests that it cannot spawn, returning success
- `zig run` and `zig build` exit with failure, reporting the command the cannot be run
- `zig clang`, `zig ar`, etc. already punt directly to the appropriate clang/lld main(), even before this change
- Native `libc` Detection is not supported
Additionally, `exec()` and related Builder functions error at run-time, reporting the command that cannot be run
This was found on a user's machine when calling "git" as a child process from msys. Instead of getting BROKEN_PIPE on GetOverlappedREsult, it would occur on ReadFile which would then cause the function to hang because the async operation was never started.
