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2024-07-19Merge changes Id8b3d289,Ib75ab5b8,I3792eeb3 into mainjade
* 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
2024-07-19Merge changes I829581a3,I0016970d,I5dac8e77,Ib7560fe5 into mainalois31
* 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
2024-07-18Fixup a bunch of references to nixos.org manualsJade Lovelace
(plus one reference to CppNix github) Change-Id: Id8b3d2897f3b54e286861805cfd421adc4d5de47
2024-07-18Add release notes for removing overflow from Nix languageJade Lovelace
Change-Id: Ib75ab5b8b4d879035d7ee7678f9cd0c491a39c0a
2024-07-18expr: fix a compiler warning about different signs in comparisonJade Lovelace
We know that variable is >=0, so we can just cast it to unsigned. Change-Id: I3792eeb3ca43e6a507cc44c1a70584d42b2acd7b
2024-07-18Merge changes Ib20e9aa0,I178a038b,I29c7de04 into mainjade
* 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"
2024-07-18doc/release-notes: add for pretty printing improvementsAlois Wohlschlager
Change-Id: I829581a3f5b8b742e6c866dcdbbc635f91afceb5
2024-07-18libexpr/print: do not show elided nested items when there are noneAlois Wohlschlager
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
2024-07-18libexpr/print: never show empty attrsets or derivations as «repeated»Alois Wohlschlager
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
2024-07-18libexpr/print: pretty-print idempotentlyAlois Wohlschlager
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
2024-07-18Merge "doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the `$$` parser bug" ↵alois31
into main
2024-07-17doc/release-notes: link the upcoming release notes againAlois Wohlschlager
The insertion marker comment broke the list into two parts, the first containing only the link to the upcoming release notes and the second the past releases. This confused the generator, leading to the first part being discarded. Indent the marker comment so that it's syntactically part of the preceding item, and in particular doesn't split the list any more. Change-Id: I357c51bb03e4e0d79a76d30158615fd9eda95ea8
2024-07-17doc/release-notes: add date for major releaseRaito Bezarius
Change-Id: I93aab93c069bb3989c3f8d17e0862899e6f76865 Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
2024-07-17doc/manual: clarify documentation related to the `$$` parser bugAlois Wohlschlager
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
2024-07-17Merge "tests/functional/repl.sh: actually fail test on wrong stdout" into mainMax Siling
2024-07-17tests/functional/repl.sh: actually fail test on wrong stdoutGoldstein
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
2024-07-16remove boost coroutine referenceseldritch horrors
we no longer need these since sinkToSource and sourceToSink are gone. Change-Id: Ibbf440e2cf71bf3e9f3b833af2d78a21fb1b3193
2024-07-16remove sourceToSink, sinkToSource, and boehm patcheldritch horrors
Change-Id: I1379841299713175d0225b82a67f50660f9eb5e2
2024-07-16libstore: remove remaining sinkToSource useseldritch horrors
Change-Id: Id1ee0d2ad4a3774f4bbb960d76f0f76ac4f3eff9
2024-07-16libstore: remove WriteConn::sink fieldseldritch horrors
we no longer need these since we're no longer using sinks to serialize things. Change-Id: Iffb1a3eab33c83f611c88fa4e8beaa8d5ffa079b
2024-07-16libstore: generatorize protocol serializerseldritch horrors
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
2024-07-16libstore: remove a sinkToSouce from old daemon protocoleldritch horrors
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
2024-07-16libstore: rewrite the nar parser as a contents generatoreldritch horrors
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
2024-07-15Merge changes I8d87c0e9,I25937702 into mainQyriad
* changes: nix3-upgrade-nix: always use the /new/ nix-env to perform the installation libutil: implement a realPath() utility
2024-07-15libstore: rewrite narFromPath as generatoreldritch horrors
Change-Id: Ifa783c2c65c06ddd1d0212016d5bfd07666ea91c
2024-07-15Merge "use clangStdenv for the default devShell, so we get clangd by ↵lunaphied
default" into main
2024-07-15nix3-upgrade-nix: always use the /new/ nix-env to perform the installationQyriad
Fixes #411. Change-Id: I8d87c0e9295deea26ff33234e15ee33cc68ab303
2024-07-15libutil: implement a realPath() utilityQyriad
Just a wrapper around POSIX realpath(). Change-Id: I2593770285dbae573eace490efce5b272b00b001
2024-07-14Merge "libexpr/eval.cc: remove unnecessary C string conversion" into mainnan-git
2024-07-14libexpr/eval.cc: remove unnecessary C string conversionNaN
Change-Id: I5b7c21df84ff8ff64cf6a1e261fc3729a06bd4f6
2024-07-13nix-support/binary-tarball.nix: Pass through root pathsArtemis Tosini
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
2024-07-13docs: document the actual comparison rules instead of liesJade Lovelace
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
2024-07-13daemon: remove workaround for macOS kernel bug that seems fixedJade Lovelace
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
2024-07-13docs: update to define integer overflowJade Lovelace
Change-Id: Ie8a1b31035f2d27a220e5df2e9e178ec3b39ee68
2024-07-13daemon: fix a crash bug "FATAL: exception not rethrown"Jade Lovelace
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. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/94d3b452840153a99b38a3a9659680b2a006908e/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::thread::_State_impl<std::thread::_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
2024-07-13language: cleanly ban integer overflowsJade Lovelace
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
2024-07-13libutil: add checked arithmetic toolsJade Lovelace
This is in preparation for adding checked arithmetic to the evaluator. Change-Id: I6e115ce8f5411feda1706624977a4dcd5efd4d13
2024-07-12use clangStdenv for the default devShell, so we get clangd by defaultLunaphied
The default-stdenv-devShell can always be used with `.#native-stdenvPackages`. Change-Id: I9b3e72210ba5219b6b65c71a2818110769623904
2024-07-12Use std::strong_ordering for version comparisonJade Lovelace
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
2024-07-11libstore: remove upcast_goaleldritch horrors
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
2024-07-11libstore: turn copyNAR into a generatoreldritch horrors
Change-Id: Id452f6a03faa1037ff13af0f63e32883966ff40d
2024-07-11libstore: turn the NAR parser into a passthrough generatoreldritch horrors
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
2024-07-11libutil: remove makeDecompressionSinkeldritch horrors
the sole remaining user of this function can use makeDecompressionSource instead, while making the sinkToSource in the caller unnecessary as well Change-Id: I4258227b5dbbb735a75b477d8a57007bfca305e9
2024-07-11libstore: make BinaryCacheStore::getFile return a sourceeldritch horrors
this lets us remove the last true remaining uses of makeDecompressionSink. Change-Id: I146ca2bbe1a9ae9a367117a7b8a304b23a63e5e2
2024-07-11libutil: rewrite RewritingSink as sourceeldritch horrors
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
2024-07-10Merge "lix-doc: update dependencies and refactor" into mainlunaphied
2024-07-10Merge changes I81552018,Ieb65c133 into maineldritch horrors
* changes: releng: add releaseTests flake output, test script add aarch64-linux as a cross-build target
2024-07-10devShell: Fix errors with environment variablespiegames
Previous code assumed that $MANPATH always exists Change-Id: I5a4d012045ba6ff9086373b3f46a75d82285d393
2024-07-10Merge "libmain: clear display attributes in the multiline progress bar" into ↵alois31
main
2024-07-10lix-doc: update dependencies and refactorLunaphied
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