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Aaron Turon
046062d3bf Process::new etc should support non-utf8 commands/args
The existing APIs for spawning processes took strings for the command
and arguments, but the underlying system may not impose utf8 encoding,
so this is overly limiting.

The assumption we actually want to make is just that the command and
arguments are viewable as [u8] slices with no interior NULLs, i.e., as
CStrings. The ToCStr trait is a handy bound for types that meet this
requirement (such as &str and Path).

However, since the commands and arguments are often a mixture of
strings and paths, it would be inconvenient to take a slice with a
single T: ToCStr bound. So this patch revamps the process creation API
to instead use a builder-style interface, called `Command`, allowing
arguments to be added one at a time with differing ToCStr
implementations for each.

The initial cut of the builder API has some drawbacks that can be
addressed once issue #13851 (libstd as a facade) is closed. These are
detailed as FIXMEs.

Closes #11650.

[breaking-change]
2014-05-14 22:52:31 -07:00
Alex Crichton
f09592a5d1 io: Implement process wait timeouts
This implements set_timeout() for std::io::Process which will affect wait()
operations on the process. This follows the same pattern as the rest of the
timeouts emerging in std::io::net.

The implementation was super easy for everything except libnative on unix
(backwards from usual!), which required a good bit of signal handling. There's a
doc comment explaining the strategy in libnative. Internally, this also required
refactoring the "helper thread" implementation used by libnative to allow for an
extra helper thread (not just the timer).

This is a breaking change in terms of the io::Process API. It is now possible
for wait() to fail, and subsequently wait_with_output(). These two functions now
return IoResult<T> due to the fact that they can time out.

Additionally, the wait_with_output() function has moved from taking `&mut self`
to taking `self`. If a timeout occurs while waiting with output, the semantics
are undesirable in almost all cases if attempting to re-wait on the process.
Equivalent functionality can still be achieved by dealing with the output
handles manually.

[breaking-change]

cc #13523
2014-05-13 17:27:42 -07:00
Alex Crichton
cbc31df4fc std: Move the owned module from core to std
The compiler was updated to recognize that implementations for ty_uniq(..) are
allowed if the Box lang item is located in the current crate. This enforces the
idea that libcore cannot allocated, and moves all related trait implementations
from libcore to libstd.

This is a breaking change in that the AnyOwnExt trait has moved from the any
module to the owned module. Any previous users of std::any::AnyOwnExt should now
use std::owned::AnyOwnExt instead. This was done because the trait is intended
for Box traits and only Box traits.

[breaking-change]
2014-05-13 17:24:07 -07:00
Yuri Kunde Schlesner
8c55fcd1f2 Add stat method to std::io::fs::File to stat without a Path.
The `FileStat` struct contained a `path` field, which was filled by the
`stat` and `lstat` function. Since this field isn't in fact returned by
the operating system (it was copied from the paths passed to the
functions) it was removed, as in the `fstat` case we aren't working with
a `Path`, but directly with a fd.

If your code used the `path` field of `FileStat` you will now have to
manually store the path passed to `stat` along with the returned struct.

[breaking-change]
2014-05-12 19:52:29 -07:00
Daniel Micay
8b912bc56b register snapshots 2014-05-12 02:52:32 -04:00
Daniel Micay
69b321c84b heap: replace exchange_free with deallocate
The `std::rt::heap` API is Rust's global allocator, so there's no need
to have this as a separate API.
2014-05-11 18:41:45 -04:00
Daniel Micay
32988db2bd heap: add a way to print allocator statistics 2014-05-11 17:41:36 -04:00
Daniel Micay
f3de28a920 mark rust_malloc/rust_free as unsafe
Support for this was added by 08237cad8d.
2014-05-11 17:41:36 -04:00
Alex Crichton
f94d671bfa core: Remove the cast module
This commit revisits the `cast` module in libcore and libstd, and scrutinizes
all functions inside of it. The result was to remove the `cast` module entirely,
folding all functionality into the `mem` module. Specifically, this is the fate
of each function in the `cast` module.

* transmute - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is now marked as
              #[unstable]. This is due to planned changes to the `transmute`
              function and how it can be invoked (see the #[unstable] comment).
              For more information, see RFC 5 and #12898

* transmute_copy - This function was moved to `mem`, with clarification that is
                   is not an error to invoke it with T/U that are different
                   sizes, but rather that it is strongly discouraged. This
                   function is now #[stable]

* forget - This function was moved to `mem` and marked #[stable]

* bump_box_refcount - This function was removed due to the deprecation of
                      managed boxes as well as its questionable utility.

* transmute_mut - This function was previously deprecated, and removed as part
                  of this commit.

* transmute_mut_unsafe - This function doesn't serve much of a purpose when it
                         can be achieved with an `as` in safe code, so it was
                         removed.

* transmute_lifetime - This function was removed because it is likely a strong
                       indication that code is incorrect in the first place.

* transmute_mut_lifetime - This function was removed for the same reasons as
                           `transmute_lifetime`

* copy_lifetime - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is marked
                  `#[unstable]` now due to the likelihood of being removed in
                  the future if it is found to not be very useful.

* copy_mut_lifetime - This function was also moved to `mem`, but had the same
                      treatment as `copy_lifetime`.

* copy_lifetime_vec - This function was removed because it is not used today,
                      and its existence is not necessary with DST
                      (copy_lifetime will suffice).

In summary, the cast module was stripped down to these functions, and then the
functions were moved to the `mem` module.

    transmute - #[unstable]
    transmute_copy - #[stable]
    forget - #[stable]
    copy_lifetime - #[unstable]
    copy_mut_lifetime - #[unstable]

[breaking-change]
2014-05-11 01:13:02 -07:00
Daniel Micay
81fadbbc41 android workaround 2014-05-11 00:57:41 -04:00
Daniel Micay
121ad1cb7d rename global_heap -> libc_heap
This module only contains wrappers for malloc and realloc with
out-of-memory checks.
2014-05-10 19:58:18 -04:00
Daniel Micay
138437956c initial port of the exchange allocator to jemalloc
In stage0, all allocations are 8-byte aligned. Passing a size and
alignment to free is not yet implemented everywhere (0 size and 8 align
are used as placeholders). Fixing this is part of #13994.

Closes #13616
2014-05-10 19:58:17 -04:00
Daniel Micay
aaf6e06b01 use jemalloc to implement Vec<T> 2014-05-10 19:58:17 -04:00
Daniel Micay
03a5eb4b52 add an align parameter to exchange_malloc
Closes #13094
2014-05-10 19:58:17 -04:00
Daniel Micay
1b1ca6d546 add back jemalloc to the tree
This adds a `std::rt::heap` module with a nice allocator API. It's a
step towards fixing #13094 and is a starting point for working on a
generic allocator trait.

The revision used for the jemalloc submodule is the stable 3.6.0 release.

Closes #11807
2014-05-10 19:58:17 -04:00
Alex Crichton
3f5e3af838 Register new snapshots 2014-05-09 21:13:02 -07:00
Kevin Ballard
1d57da783b Handle fallout in libnative
API Changes:

- GetAddrInfoRequest::run() returns Result<Vec<..>, ..>
- Process::spawn() returns Result(.., Vec<..>), ..>
2014-05-08 12:06:22 -07:00
Kevin Ballard
cc42b61936 Handle fallout in io::net::addrinfo, io::process, and rt::rtio
API Changes:

- get_host_addresses() returns IoResult<Vec<IpAddr>>
- Process.extra_io is Vec<Option<io::PipeStream>>
2014-05-08 12:06:22 -07:00
Kevin Ballard
f340fb9b12 Handle fallout in os
os::env(), os::args(), and related functions now use Vec<T> instead of
~[T].
2014-05-08 12:06:21 -07:00
bors
b9ff86e27f auto merge of #13835 : alexcrichton/rust/localdata, r=brson
This commit brings the local_data api up to modern rust standards with a few key
improvements:

* All functionality is now exposed as a method on the keys themselves. Instead
  of importing std::local_data, you now use "key.set()" and "key.get()".

* All closures have been removed in favor of RAII functionality. This means that
  get() and get_mut() no long require closures, but rather return
  Option<SmartPointer> where the smart pointer takes care of relinquishing the
  borrow and also implements the necessary Deref traits

* The modify() function was removed to cut the local_data interface down to its
  bare essentials (similarly to how RefCell removed set/get).

[breaking-change]
2014-05-08 01:26:39 -07:00
Alex Crichton
ab92ea526d std: Modernize the local_data api
This commit brings the local_data api up to modern rust standards with a few key
improvements:

* The `pop` and `set` methods have been combined into one method, `replace`

* The `get_mut` method has been removed. All interior mutability should be done
  through `RefCell`.

* All functionality is now exposed as a method on the keys themselves. Instead
  of importing std::local_data, you now use "key.replace()" and "key.get()".

* All closures have been removed in favor of RAII functionality. This means that
  get() and get_mut() no long require closures, but rather return
  Option<SmartPointer> where the smart pointer takes care of relinquishing the
  borrow and also implements the necessary Deref traits

* The modify() function was removed to cut the local_data interface down to its
  bare essentials (similarly to how RefCell removed set/get).

[breaking-change]
2014-05-07 23:43:39 -07:00
Alex Crichton
e27f27c858 std: Add I/O timeouts to networking objects
These timeouts all follow the same pattern as established by the timeouts on
acceptors. There are three methods: set_timeout, set_read_timeout, and
set_write_timeout. Each of these sets a point in the future after which
operations will time out.

Timeouts with cloned objects are a little trickier. Each object is viewed as
having its own timeout, unaffected by other objects' timeouts. Additionally,
timeouts do not propagate when a stream is cloned or when a cloned stream has
its timeouts modified.

This commit is just the public interface which will be exposed for timeouts, the
implementation will come in later commits.
2014-05-07 23:27:01 -07:00
bors
ab22d99e73 auto merge of #13751 : alexcrichton/rust/io-close-read, r=brson
Two new methods were added to TcpStream and UnixStream:

    fn close_read(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;
    fn close_write(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;

These two methods map to shutdown()'s behavior (the system call on unix),
closing the reading or writing half of a duplex stream. These methods are
primarily added to allow waking up a pending read in another task. By closing
the reading half of a connection, all pending readers will be woken up and will
return with EndOfFile. The close_write() method was added for symmetry with
close_read(), and I imagine that it will be quite useful at some point.

Implementation-wise, librustuv got the short end of the stick this time. The
native versions just delegate to the shutdown() syscall (easy). The uv versions
can leverage uv_shutdown() for tcp/unix streams, but only for closing the
writing half. Closing the reading half is done through some careful dancing to
wake up a pending reader.

As usual, windows likes to be different from unix. The windows implementation
uses shutdown() for sockets, but shutdown() is not available for named pipes.
Instead, CancelIoEx was used with same fancy synchronization to make sure
everyone knows what's up.

cc #11165
2014-05-07 17:21:37 -07:00
Alex Crichton
ec9ade938e std: Add close_{read,write}() methods to I/O
Two new methods were added to TcpStream and UnixStream:

    fn close_read(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;
    fn close_write(&mut self) -> IoResult<()>;

These two methods map to shutdown()'s behavior (the system call on unix),
closing the reading or writing half of a duplex stream. These methods are
primarily added to allow waking up a pending read in another task. By closing
the reading half of a connection, all pending readers will be woken up and will
return with EndOfFile. The close_write() method was added for symmetry with
close_read(), and I imagine that it will be quite useful at some point.

Implementation-wise, librustuv got the short end of the stick this time. The
native versions just delegate to the shutdown() syscall (easy). The uv versions
can leverage uv_shutdown() for tcp/unix streams, but only for closing the
writing half. Closing the reading half is done through some careful dancing to
wake up a pending reader.

As usual, windows likes to be different from unix. The windows implementation
uses shutdown() for sockets, but shutdown() is not available for named pipes.
Instead, CancelIoEx was used with same fancy synchronization to make sure
everyone knows what's up.

cc #11165
2014-05-07 17:18:07 -07:00
Alex Crichton
0d8f5fa618 core: Move Option::expect to libstd from libcore
See #14008 for more details
2014-05-07 08:17:32 -07:00
Alex Crichton
d4b5d82a33 core: Add unwrap()/unwrap_err() methods to Result
These implementations must live in libstd right now because the fmt module has
not been migrated yet. This will occur in a later PR.

Just to be clear, there are new extension traits, but they are not necessary
once the std::fmt module has migrated to libcore, which is a planned migration
in the future.
2014-05-07 08:16:14 -07:00
Alex Crichton
e4271cae54 core: Add a limited implementation of failure
This adds an small of failure to libcore, hamstrung by the fact that std::fmt
hasn't been migrated yet. A few asserts were re-worked to not use std::fmt
features, but these asserts can go back to their original form once std::fmt has
migrated.

The current failure implementation is to just have some symbols exposed by
std::rt::unwind that are linked against by libcore. This is an explicit circular
dependency, unfortunately. This will be officially supported in the future
through compiler support with much nicer failure messages. Additionally, there
are two depended-upon symbols today, but in the future there will only be one
(once std::fmt has migrated).
2014-05-07 08:16:14 -07:00
Alex Crichton
9bae6ec828 core: Inherit possible string functionality
This moves as much allocation as possible from teh std::str module into
core::str. This includes essentially all non-allocating functionality, mostly
iterators and slicing and such.

This primarily splits the Str trait into only having the as_slice() method,
adding a new StrAllocating trait to std::str which contains the relevant new
allocation methods. This is a breaking change if any of the methods of "trait
Str" were overriden. The old functionality can be restored by implementing both
the Str and StrAllocating traits.

[breaking-change]
2014-05-07 08:16:14 -07:00
Patrick Walton
090040bf40 librustc: Remove ~EXPR, ~TYPE, and ~PAT from the language, except
for `~str`/`~[]`.

Note that `~self` still remains, since I forgot to add support for
`Box<self>` before the snapshot.

How to update your code:

* Instead of `~EXPR`, you should write `box EXPR`.

* Instead of `~TYPE`, you should write `Box<Type>`.

* Instead of `~PATTERN`, you should write `box PATTERN`.

[breaking-change]
2014-05-06 23:12:54 -07:00
Brian Anderson
a5be12ce7e Replace most ~exprs with 'box'. #11779 2014-05-02 23:00:58 -07:00
Falco Hirschenberger
6c26cbb602 Add lint check for negating uint literals and variables.
See #11273 and #13318
2014-05-03 00:13:26 +02:00
Alexandre Gagnon
6c41253a47 Fix repeated module documentation 2014-04-27 22:17:49 -04:00
Alex Crichton
6328f7c199 std: Add timeouts to unix connect/accept
This adds support for connecting to a unix socket with a timeout (a named pipe
on windows), and accepting a connection with a timeout. The goal is to bring
unix pipes/named sockets back in line with TCP support for timeouts.

Similarly to the TCP sockets, all methods are marked #[experimental] due to
uncertainty about the type of the timeout argument.

This internally involved a good bit of refactoring to share as much code as
possible between TCP servers and pipe servers, but the core implementation did
not change drastically as part of this commit.

cc #13523
2014-04-24 16:24:09 -07:00
Alex Crichton
58a51120a7 Update libuv
This update brings a few months of changes, but primarily a fix for the
following situation.

When creating a handle to stdin, libuv used to set the stdin handle to
nonblocking mode. This would end up affect this stdin handle across all
processes that shared it, which mean that stdin become nonblocking for everyone
using the same stdin. On linux, this also affected *stdout* because stdin/stdout
roughly point at the same thing.

This problem became apparent when running the test suite manually on a local
computer. The stdtest suite (running with libgreen) would set stdout to
nonblocking mode (as described above), and then the next test suite would always
fail for a printing failure (because stdout was returning EAGAIN).

This has been fixed upstream, joyent/libuv@342e8c, and this update pulls in this
fix. This also brings us in line with a recently upstreamed libuv patch.

Closes #13336
Closes #13355
2014-04-24 09:08:07 -07:00
bors
3d05e7f9cd auto merge of #13688 : alexcrichton/rust/accept-timeout, r=brson
This adds experimental support for timeouts when accepting sockets through
`TcpAcceptor::accept`. This does not add a separate `accept_timeout` function,
but rather it adds a `set_timeout` function instead. This second function is
intended to be used as a hard deadline after which all accepts will never block
and fail immediately.

This idea was derived from Go's SetDeadline() methods. We do not currently have
a robust time abstraction in the standard library, so I opted to have the
argument be a relative time in millseconds into the future. I believe a more
appropriate argument type is an absolute time, but this concept does not exist
yet (this is also why the function is marked #[experimental]).

The native support is built on select(), similarly to connect_timeout(), and the
green support is based on channel select and a timer.

cc #13523
2014-04-23 19:21:33 -07:00
Alex Crichton
e5d3e5180f std: Add support for an accept() timeout
This adds experimental support for timeouts when accepting sockets through
`TcpAcceptor::accept`. This does not add a separate `accept_timeout` function,
but rather it adds a `set_timeout` function instead. This second function is
intended to be used as a hard deadline after which all accepts will never block
and fail immediately.

This idea was derived from Go's SetDeadline() methods. We do not currently have
a robust time abstraction in the standard library, so I opted to have the
argument be a relative time in millseconds into the future. I believe a more
appropriate argument type is an absolute time, but this concept does not exist
yet (this is also why the function is marked #[experimental]).

The native support is built on select(), similarly to connect_timeout(), and the
green support is based on channel select and a timer.

cc #13523
2014-04-23 19:07:31 -07:00
bors
6beb376b5c auto merge of #13686 : alexcrichton/rust/issue-12224, r=nikomatsakis
This alters the borrow checker's requirements on invoking closures from
requiring an immutable borrow to requiring a unique immutable borrow. This means 
that it is illegal to invoke a closure through a `&` pointer because there is no 
guarantee that is not aliased. This does not mean that a closure is required to
be in a mutable location, but rather a location which can be proven to be
unique (often through a mutable pointer).
                                                                                 
For example, the following code is unsound and is no longer allowed:             
                                                                                 
    type Fn<'a> = ||:'a;                                                         
                                                                                 
    fn call(f: |Fn|) {                                                           
        f(|| {                                                                   
            f(|| {})                                                             
        });                                                                      
    }                                                                            
                                                                                 
    fn main() {                                                                  
        call(|a| {                                                               
            a();                                                                 
        });                                                                      
    }                                                                            
                                                                                 
There is no replacement for this pattern. For all closures which are stored in
structures, it was previously allowed to invoke the closure through `&self` but
it now requires invocation through `&mut self`.

The standard library has a good number of violations of this new rule, but the
fixes will be separated into multiple breaking change commits.
                                                                                 
Closes #12224
2014-04-23 12:01:53 -07:00
Alex Crichton
b4ecbe9340 std: Change Finally to take &mut self
As with the previous commits, the Finally trait is primarily implemented for
closures, so the trait was modified from `&self` to `&mut self`. This will
require that any closure variable invoked with `finally` to be stored in a
mutable slot.

[breaking-change]
2014-04-23 10:03:43 -07:00
Vadim Chugunov
f686e5ebff Fixed Win64 build 2014-04-22 18:08:06 -07:00
Joseph Crail
809f13ea94 Fix misspellings in comments. 2014-04-21 00:49:39 -04:00
bors
ba25fecfef auto merge of #13615 : alexcrichton/rust/improve-demangling, r=brson
Previously, symbols with rust escape sequences (denoted with dollar signs)
weren't demangled if the escape sequence showed up in the middle. This alters
the printing loop to look through the entire string for dollar characters.
2014-04-19 05:41:26 -07:00
Alex Crichton
3915e17cd7 std: Add an experimental connect_timeout function
This adds a `TcpStream::connect_timeout` function in order to assist opening
connections with a timeout (cc #13523). There isn't really much design space for
this specific operation (unlike timing out normal blocking reads/writes), so I
am fairly confident that this is the correct interface for this function.

The function is marked #[experimental] because it takes a u64 timeout argument,
and the u64 type is likely to change in the future.
2014-04-19 00:47:14 -07:00
bors
9d5082e88a auto merge of #13606 : alexcrichton/rust/better-thread-errors, r=brson
On windows, correctly check for errors when spawning threads, and on both
windows and unix handle the error more gracefully rather than printing an opaque
assertion failure.

Closes #13589
2014-04-18 22:16:35 -07:00
Alex Crichton
55310acbca std: Fix demangling with middle special chars
Previously, symbols with rust escape sequences (denoted with dollar signs)
weren't demangled if the escape sequence showed up in the middle. This alters
the printing loop to look through the entire string for dollar characters.
2014-04-18 17:37:27 -07:00
Richo Healey
919889a1d6 Replace all ~"" with "".to_owned() 2014-04-18 17:25:34 -07:00
Alex Crichton
c318d72b86 std: Fail more gracefully on thread spawn errors
On windows, correctly check for errors when spawning threads, and on both
windows and unix handle the error more gracefully rather than printing an opaque
assertion failure.

Closes #13589
2014-04-18 10:36:16 -07:00
Alex Crichton
7d3b0bf391 std: Make ~[T] no longer a growable vector
This removes all resizability support for ~[T] vectors in preparation of DST.
The only growable vector remaining is Vec<T>. In summary, the following methods
from ~[T] and various functions were removed. Each method/function has an
equivalent on the Vec type in std::vec unless otherwise stated.

* slice::OwnedCloneableVector
* slice::OwnedEqVector
* slice::append
* slice::append_one
* slice::build (no replacement)
* slice::bytes::push_bytes
* slice::from_elem
* slice::from_fn
* slice::with_capacity
* ~[T].capacity()
* ~[T].clear()
* ~[T].dedup()
* ~[T].extend()
* ~[T].grow()
* ~[T].grow_fn()
* ~[T].grow_set()
* ~[T].insert()
* ~[T].pop()
* ~[T].push()
* ~[T].push_all()
* ~[T].push_all_move()
* ~[T].remove()
* ~[T].reserve()
* ~[T].reserve_additional()
* ~[T].reserve_exect()
* ~[T].retain()
* ~[T].set_len()
* ~[T].shift()
* ~[T].shrink_to_fit()
* ~[T].swap_remove()
* ~[T].truncate()
* ~[T].unshift()
* ~str.clear()
* ~str.set_len()
* ~str.truncate()

Note that no other API changes were made. Existing apis that took or returned
~[T] continue to do so.

[breaking-change]
2014-04-18 10:06:24 -07:00
Brian Anderson
c8f5b701dc std: Remove pub use globs 2014-04-15 19:47:03 -07:00
Alex Crichton
c836ff4621 std: Impl Deref/DerefMut for a borrowed task 2014-04-15 19:45:00 -07:00
bors
ab0d847277 auto merge of #13448 : alexcrichton/rust/rework-chan-return-values, r=brson
There are currently a number of return values from the std::comm methods, not
all of which are necessarily completely expressive:

 * `Sender::try_send(t: T) -> bool`
    This method currently doesn't transmit back the data `t` if the send fails
    due to the other end having disconnected. Additionally, this shares the name
    of the synchronous try_send method, but it differs in semantics in that it
    only has one failure case, not two (the buffer can never be full).

 * `SyncSender::try_send(t: T) -> TrySendResult<T>`
    This method accurately conveys all possible information, but it uses a
    custom type to the std::comm module with no convenience methods on it.
    Additionally, if you want to inspect the result you're forced to import
    something from `std::comm`.

 * `SyncSender::send_opt(t: T) -> Option<T>`
    This method uses Some(T) as an "error value" and None as a "success value",
    but almost all other uses of Option<T> have Some/None the other way

 * `Receiver::try_recv(t: T) -> TryRecvResult<T>`
    Similarly to the synchronous try_send, this custom return type is lacking in
    terms of usability (no convenience methods).

With this number of drawbacks in mind, I believed it was time to re-work the
return types of these methods. The new API for the comm module is:

    Sender::send(t: T) -> ()
    Sender::send_opt(t: T) -> Result<(), T>
    SyncSender::send(t: T) -> ()
    SyncSender::send_opt(t: T) -> Result<(), T>
    SyncSender::try_send(t: T) -> Result<(), TrySendError<T>>
    Receiver::recv() -> T
    Receiver::recv_opt() -> Result<T, ()>
    Receiver::try_recv() -> Result<T, TryRecvError>

The notable changes made are:

* Sender::try_send => Sender::send_opt. This renaming brings the semantics in
  line with the SyncSender::send_opt method. An asychronous send only has one
  failure case, unlike the synchronous try_send method which has two failure
  cases (full/disconnected).

* Sender::send_opt returns the data back to the caller if the send is guaranteed
  to fail. This method previously returned `bool`, but then it was unable to
  retrieve the data if the data was guaranteed to fail to send. There is still a
  race such that when `Ok(())` is returned the data could still fail to be
  received, but that's inherent to an asynchronous channel.

* Result is now the basis of all return values. This not only adds lots of
  convenience methods to all return values for free, but it also means that you
  can inspect the return values with no extra imports (Ok/Err are in the
  prelude). Additionally, it's now self documenting when something failed or not
  because the return value has "Err" in the name.

Things I'm a little uneasy about:

* The methods send_opt and recv_opt are not returning options, but rather
  results. I felt more strongly that Option was the wrong return type than the
  _opt prefix was wrong, and I coudn't think of a much better name for these
  methods. One possible way to think about them is to read the _opt suffix as
  "optionally".

* Result<T, ()> is often better expressed as Option<T>. This is only applicable
  to the recv_opt() method, but I thought it would be more consistent for
  everything to return Result rather than one method returning an Option.

Despite my two reasons to feel uneasy, I feel much better about the consistency
in return values at this point, and I think the only real open question is if
there's a better suffix for {send,recv}_opt.

Closes #11527
2014-04-12 12:21:58 -07:00