* changes:
Fixup a bunch of references to nixos.org manuals
Add release notes for removing overflow from Nix language
expr: fix a compiler warning about different signs in comparison
* changes:
doc/release-notes: add for pretty printing improvements
libexpr/print: do not show elided nested items when there are none
libexpr/print: never show empty attrsets or derivations as «repeated»
libexpr/print: pretty-print idempotently
* changes:
docs: document the actual comparison rules instead of lies
daemon: remove workaround for macOS kernel bug that seems fixed
daemon: fix a crash bug "FATAL: exception not rethrown"
When the configured maximum depth has been reached, attribute sets and lists
are printed with ellipsis to indicate the elision of nested items. Previously,
this happened even in case the structure being printed is empty, so that such
items do not in fact exist. This is confusing, so stop doing it.
Change-Id: I0016970dad3e42625e085dc896e6f476b21226c9
The repeated value detection logic exists so that the occurrence of large
common substructures does not fill up the screen or the computer's memory.
However, empty attribute sets and derivations (when their detection is enabled)
are always cheap to print, and in practice I have observed them to make up a
significant majority of the cases where I was annoyed by the repeated value
detection kicking in. Furthermore, `nix-instantiate --eval` already disables
this logic for empty attribute sets, and empty lists are already exempted
everywhere. For these reasons, always print empty attribute sets and
derivations as what they are.
Change-Id: I5dac8e7739f9d726b76fd0521ec46f38af94463f
When pretty-printing is enabled, previously an unforced thunk would trigger
indentation, even when it subsequently does not evaluate to a nested structure.
The resulting output looked inconsistent, and furthermore pretty-printing was
not idempotent (since pretty-printing the same value again, which is now fully
evaluated, will not trigger indentation).
When strict evaluation is enabled, force the item before inspecting its type,
so that it is properly known whether it contains a nested structure.
Furthermore, there is no need to cause indentation for unforced thunks, since
the very next operation will be printing them as `«thunk»`.
This is mostly a port of https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11100 , but we only
force the item when it's going to be forced anyway due to strict
pretty-printing, and a new test was written since the REPL testing framework in
Lix is different.
Co-Authored-By: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
Change-Id: Ib7560fe531d09e05ca6b2037a523fe21a26d9d58
The insertion marker comment broke the list into two parts, the first
containing only the link to the upcoming release notes and the second the
past releases. This confused the generator, leading to the first part being
discarded. Indent the marker comment so that it's syntactically part of the
preceding item, and in particular doesn't split the list any more.
Change-Id: I357c51bb03e4e0d79a76d30158615fd9eda95ea8
Due to a mistake in the grammar, a dollar character implicitly escapes a second
dollar character that immediately follows, so that it cannot start an
interpolation. Unfortunately, this behaviour has since come to be relied upon,
so it cannot be fixed. Furthermore, the documentation on regular strings did
not mention this behaviour at all, while in the case of indented strings it was
rather implicit.
Mention it explicitly in both cases, and describe how an interpolation can
follow a dollar character (namely, by escaping that). Since we have to touch
that section anyway, state that any character (other than n, r, and t; but
notably including `$` even if not succeeded by `{`) can be escaped using a
backslash in regular strings.
Change-Id: I7e5d68a9a4130eec98ce8218b485168f4b31a677
Previous test implementation assumed that grep supports newlines
in patterns. It doesn't, so tests spuriously passed, even though
some tests outputs were broken.
This patches output (and expected output) before grepping,
so there're no newlines in pattern.
Change-Id: Ie6561f9f2e18b83d976f162269d20136e2595141
this is cursed. deeply and profoundly cursed. under NO CIRCUMSTANCES
must protocol serializer helpers be applied to temporaries! doing so
will inevitably cause dangling references and cause the entire thing
to crash. we need to do this even so to get rid of boost coroutines,
and likewise to encapsulate the serializers we suffer today at least
a little bit to allow a gradual migration to an actual IPC protocol.
(this isn't a problem that's unique to generators. c++ coroutines in
general cannot safely take references to arbitrary temporaries since
c++ does not have a lifetime system that can make this safe. -sigh-)
Change-Id: I2921ba451e04d86798752d140885d3c5cc08e146
this doesn't have a test because this code path is only reached by
clients that predate 2.4, and we really should not be caring about
those any more right now. even the test suite doesn't, and the few
tests that might care are disabled because they will not even work
Change-Id: Id9eb190065138fedb2c7d90c328ff9eb9d97385b
this is not completely necessary at this point because the parser right
now already returns a generator to pass through all input data it read,
but the nar parser *was* very lax and would accept nars that weren't in
canonical form (defined as the form dumpPath would return). nar hashing
depends on these things, and as such rewriting the parser now allows us
to reject non-canonical nars that extract to the same store contents as
their canonical counterpart but have different nar hashes despite that.
Change-Id: Iccd319e3bd5912d8297014c84c495edc59019bb7
Passing through root paths allows external programs to see
which nix and cacert are in a binary tarball,
e.g. to recreate it from substituters
Change-Id: I27431134df53bbc6623484f8a0822004b51f7c87
Although the comparison rules are ugly and we do not like various parts
of them, we must not hide them away for only catgirls to know about, so
the documentation should actually say how they work.
Change-Id: Ib20e9aa0e7b6486ade4f401035aafd85fbb08c91
This was filed as https://github.com/nixos/nix/issues/7584, but as far
as I can tell, the previous solution of POLLHUP works just fine on macOS
14. I've also tested on an ancient machine with macOS 10.15.7, which
also has POLLHUP work correctly.
It's possible this might regress some older versions of macOS that have
a kernel bug, but I went looking through the history on the sources and
didn't find anything that looked terribly convincingly like a bug fix
between 2020 and today. If such a broken version exists, it seems pretty
reasonable to suggest simply updating the OS.
Change-Id: I178a038baa000f927ea2cbc4587d69d8ab786843
This is caused by pthread_cancel effectively throwing a
not-specifically-identifiable C++ exception into the targeted thread,
which, if it is not rethrown, terminates the process entirely.
This is rather "impolite" behaviour, we would say. But thread
cancellation is *always* busted, and we should simply not use it where
unnecessary. It's particularly unnecessary when what we *actually* need
it for is, err, interrupting a poll(2).
That can in turn be achieved by simply listening to more stuff in the
poll, namely, a pipe, which we send a character to when needing to
stop the thread.
While looking at this code, we also investigated whether any of the
poll() madness is required, or was even *ever* required. Curiously we
found in the XNU kernel source code that the thing about needing to
listen to POLLHUP is probably *correct*, but switching it to POLLRDNORM
should not have made any difference at all. We've left a FIXME to look
into that further because what's written here is super janky.
94d3b45284/bsd/kern/sys_generic.c (L1751-L1758)
This is the crash on some Hydra machines:
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f56b77776c0 (LWP 955542) (Exiting)):
0 0x00007f56b8e9b7dc in __pthread_kill_implementation () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
1 0x00007f56b8e49516 in raise () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
2 0x00007f56b8e31935 in abort () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
3 0x00007f56b8e327f3 in __libc_message_impl.cold () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
4 0x00007f56b8e8e8e9 in __libc_fatal () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
5 0x00007f56b8ea23c4 in unwind_cleanup () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
6 0x00007f56b9d2a1b8 in nix::triggerInterrupt() [clone .cold] () from /nix/store/sahgw550p621m9dy1pd7whl9c5g1g0p7-lix-2.90.0-rc1/lib/liblixutil.so
7 0x00007f56b990ac9d in std:🧵:_State_impl<std:🧵:_Invoker<std::tuple<nix::MonitorFdHup::MonitorFdHup(int)::{lambda()#1}> > >::_M_run() () from /nix/store/sahgw550p621m9dy1pd7whl9c5g1g0p7-lix-2.90.0-rc1/lib/liblixstore.so
8 0x00007f56b90e86d3 in execute_native_thread_routine () from /nix/store/c6r62m84hywf4i6qq1h28f13zv38yqyp-gcc-13.3.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
9 0x00007f56b8e99a42 in start_thread () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
10 0x00007f56b8f1905c in clone3 () from /nix/store/m71p7f0nymb19yn1dascklyya2i96jfw-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
As for testing, we've started a daemon with this change and verified it
deals with HUPs correctly on x86_64-linux, but I don't think we can
easily test the destructor behaviour without whatever Hydra was
doing that broke.
Change-Id: I29c7de0425674494b6e43c075810126c3ff77363
This also bans various sneaking of negative numbers from the language
into unsuspecting builtins as was exposed while auditing the
consequences of changing the Nix language integer type to a newtype.
It's unlikely that this change comprehensively ensures correctness when
passing integers out of the Nix language and we should probably add a
checked-narrowing function or something similar, but that's out of scope
for the immediate change.
During the development of this I found a few fun facts about the
language:
- You could overflow integers by converting from unsigned JSON values.
- You could overflow unsigned integers by converting negative numbers
into them when going into Nix config, into fetchTree, and into flake
inputs.
The flake inputs and Nix config cannot actually be tested properly
since they both ban thunks, however, we put in checks anyway because
it's possible these could somehow be used to do such shenanigans some
other way.
Note that Lix has banned Nix language integer overflows since the very
first public beta, but threw a SIGILL about them because we run with
-fsanitize=signed-overflow -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error in
production builds. Since the Nix language uses signed integers, overflow
was simply undefined behaviour, and since we defined that to trap, it
did.
Trapping on it was a bad UX, but we didn't even entirely notice
that we had done this at all until it was reported as a bug a couple of
months later (which is, to be fair, that flag working as intended), and
it's got enough production time that, aside from code that is IMHO buggy
(and which is, in any case, not in nixpkgs) such as
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/445, we don't think
anyone doing anything reasonable actually depends on wrapping overflow.
Even for weird use cases such as doing funny bit crimes, it doesn't make
sense IMO to have wrapping behaviour, since two's complement arithmetic
overflow behaviour is so *aggressively* not what you want for *any* kind
of mathematics/algorithms. The Nix language exists for package
management, a domain where bit crimes are already only dubiously in
scope to begin with, and it makes a lot more sense for that domain for
the integers to never lose precision, either by throwing errors if they
would, or by being arbitrary-precision.
This change will be ported to CppNix as well, to maintain language
consistency.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/423
Change-Id: I51f253840c4af2ea5422b8a420aa5fafbf8fae75
The actual motive here is the avoidance of integer overflow if we were
to make these use checked NixInts and retain the subtraction.
However, the actual *intent* of this code is a three-way comparison,
which can be done with operator<=>, so we should just do *that* instead.
Change-Id: I7f9a7da1f3176424b528af6d1b4f1591e4ab26bf
upcast_goal was only ever needed to break circular includes, but the
same solution that gave us upcast_goal also lets us fully remove it:
just upcast goals without a wrapper function, but only in .cc files.
Change-Id: I9c71654b2535121459ba7dcfd6c5da5606904032
this will let us turn copyNAR into a generator as well, which in turn is
necessary to turn the users of copyNAR into generators without resorting
to sinkToSource coroutines. currently this uses the SerializingTransform
in all cases, even for copyNAR where it is not necessary. should this be
a performance problem we can easily swap out the transform for one which
does not produce any bytes of its own, but that should not be necessary.
Change-Id: I7e685879318fcbb78d8b88abfddd7752360eb0ce
the sole remaining user of this function can use makeDecompressionSource
instead, while making the sinkToSource in the caller unnecessary as well
Change-Id: I4258227b5dbbb735a75b477d8a57007bfca305e9
the rewriting sink was just broken. when given a rewrite set that
contained a key that is also a proper infix of another key it was
possible to produce an incorrectly rewritten result if the writer
used the wrong block size. fixing this duplicates rewriteStrings,
to avoid this we'll rewrite rewriteStrings to use RewritingSource
in a new mode that'll allow rewrites we had previously forbidden.
Change-Id: I57fa0a9a994e654e11d07172b8e31d15f0b7e8c0
This updates the version of rnix used and refactors the code generally
to be more precise and capable in it's identification of both lambdas
and determining which documentation comments are attached.
Change-Id: Ib0dddabd71f772c95077f9d7654023b37a7a1fd2
