Commit 30e5366b ("core: Use a uv_signal for debug listener") changed
SIGUSR1 handling from a signal handler to libuv's uv_signal_*()
functionality to fix a race condition (and possible hang) in the
signal handler.
While a good change in itself, it made it impossible to interrupt
long running scripts. When a script is stuck in a busy loop, control
never returns to the event loop, which in turn means the signal
callback - and therefore the debugger - is never invoked.
This commit changes SIGUSR1 handling back to a normal signal handler
but one that treads _very_ carefully.
Mea culpa, I didn't properly resolve a merge conflict in the last two
commits. The resulting segmentation fault only happened on Linux and
only sometimes.
Fixes#6306.
The previous commit changes the profiler idle notifier so that it only
gets started when a --prof or --prof_lazy argument is specified on the
command line.
This commit adds two internal methods to the process object that allows
one to start and stop the idle notifier programmatically.
The previous commit adds a notifier that tells the V8 profiler when
node.js is idle, i.e. when it's about to start sleeping in the
platform's equivalent of epoll_wait().
This commit adds a heuristic that only starts the notifier when the
V8 profiler is started from the command line.
Inform V8's CPU profiler when we're idle. The profiler is
sampling-based but not all samples are created equal; mark the wall
clock time spent in epoll_wait() and friends so profiling tools can
filter it out. The samples still end up in v8.log but with state=IDLE
rather than state=EXTERNAL.
The default entropy source is /dev/urandom on UNIX platforms, which is
okay but we can do better by seeding it from OpenSSL's entropy pool.
On Windows we can certainly do better; on that platform, V8 seeds the
random number generator using only the current system time.
Fixes#6250.
Since it is Unix tradition to use exit code 1 for general-purpose script
bail-out, and the way of doing that in Node is to throw an exception and
not catch it, it makes the most sense to exit with 1 when an exception
goes uncaught.
Move the `Invalid Argument` exit to 9, so that it's something specific,
and clear that it's a node internal error.
Also, document the exit codes that we use.
This commit makes it possible to use multiple V8 execution contexts
within a single event loop. Put another way, handle and request wrap
objects now "remember" the context they belong to and switch back to
that context when the time comes to call into JS land.
This could have been done in a quick and hacky way by calling
v8::Object::GetCreationContext() on the wrap object right before
making a callback but that leaves a fairly wide margin for bugs.
Instead, we make the context explicit through a new Environment class
that encapsulates everything (or almost everything) that belongs to
the context. Variables that used to be a static or a global are now
members of the aforementioned class. An additional benefit is that
this approach should make it relatively straightforward to add full
isolate support in due course.
There is no JavaScript API yet but that will be added in the near
future.
This work was graciously sponsored by GitHub, Inc.
Stop gcc from getting confused, explicitly cast the return value from
getuid() and getgid() to uint32_t. Fixes the following build error:
../src/node.cc: In function 'void node::GetUid(const
v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>&)':
../src/node.cc:1552:37: error: call of overloaded 'Set(uid_t)' is
ambiguous
../src/node.cc:1552:37: note: candidates are:
../deps/v8/include/v8.h:5939:6: note: void
v8::ReturnValue<T>::Set(bool) [with T = v8::Value]
../deps/v8/include/v8.h:5909:6: note: void
v8::ReturnValue<T>::Set(double) [with T = v8::Value]
../deps/v8/include/v8.h:5915:6: note: void
v8::ReturnValue<T>::Set(int32_t) [with T = v8::Value, int32_t = int]
../deps/v8/include/v8.h:5926:6: note: void
v8::ReturnValue<T>::Set(uint32_t) [with T = v8::Value, uint32_t =
unsigned int]
Fixes#6182.
This is useful when we need to push some debugging messages out to
stderr, without going through the Writable class, or triggering any kind
of nextTick or callback behavior.
* Exit with an error message when the option is not a node or V8 option.
* Remove the option_end_index global. Needs to happen anyway for
the multi-context work, might as well land it in master now.
* Add a smidgen of const-correctness.
* Pay off a few years of accrued technical debt.
Don't call uv_loop_delete() until we've figured out a way to gracefully
close open handles. See also commit 4915884 and its subsequent revert
in commit 980cbd5.
This reverts commit 556b890ad9.
This change is not entirely ready for prime time: it's making ~50 tests
fail on Windows, mostly due to timeouts. It's up for debate who is
at fault here: node.js or libuv.
It does however expose a libuv bug on OS X, where the event loop
sometimes gets stuck in uv__io_poll() when there is a single
UV_SHUTDOWN request left in the queue. Needs further investigation.
This reverts commit 4915884da6.
Commit 556b890 added a call to uv_loop_delete() with the intent of
catching handle lifecycle bugs. It worked because it exposed one:
process.on('exit', function() {
console.log('bye'); // Asserts.
});
When run, it asserts with the following message:
Assertion failed: (!uv__has_active_reqs(loop)), function
uv__loop_delete, file ../deps/uv/src/unix/loop.c, line 150.
That's because libuv as of joyent/libuv@3f2d4d5 checks that there are
no in-flight requests when the event loop is destroyed. In the test
case above, the write request for the string hasn't completed yet by
the time node.js exits: the string itself has most likely been written
but libuv hasn't had the opportunity to return the write request to
node.js.
That's why this commit adds a cleanup step right before exit where it
explicitly closes all open handles, then waits until the event loop
exits naturally.
Named pipes (UNIX domain sockets) are shut down first in order to flush
pending write requests. Should go some way towards fixing the Windows
issue where output on stdout/stderr sometimes gets truncated.
Fixesjoyent/libuv#911.
As documented in #3042 and in [1], the existing vm implementation has
many problems. All of these are solved by @brianmcd's [contextify][2]
package. This commit uses contextify as a conceptual base and its code
core to overhaul the vm module and fix its many edge cases and caveats.
Functionally, this fixes#3042. In particular:
- A context is now indistinguishable from the object it is based on
(the "sandbox"). A context is simply a sandbox that has been marked
by the vm module, via `vm.createContext`, with special internal
information that allows scripts to be run inside of it.
- Consequently, items added to the context from anywhere are
immediately visible to all code that can access that context, both
inside and outside the virtual machine.
This commit also smooths over the API very slightly:
- Parameter defaults are now uniformly triggered via `undefined`, per
ES6 semantics and previous discussion at [3].
- Several undocumented and problematic features have been removed, e.g.
the conflation of `vm.Script` with `vm` itself, and the fact that
`Script` instances also had all static `vm` methods. The API is now
exactly as documented (although arguably the existence of the
`vm.Script` export is not yet documented, just the `Script` class
itself).
In terms of implementation, this replaces node_script.cc with
node_contextify.cc, which is derived originally from [4] (see [5]) but
has since undergone extensive modifications and iterations to expose
the most useful C++ API and use the coding conventions and utilities of
Node core.
The bindings exposed by `process.binding('contextify')`
(node_contextify.cc) replace those formerly exposed by
`process.binding('evals')` (node_script.cc). They are:
- ContextifyScript(code, [filename]), with methods:
- runInThisContext()
- runInContext(sandbox, [timeout])
- makeContext(sandbox)
From this, the vm.js file builds the entire documented vm module API.
node.js and module.js were modified to use this new native binding, or
the vm module itself where possible. This introduces an extra line or
two into the stack traces of module compilation (and thus into most
stack traces), explaining the changed tests.
The tests were also updated slightly, with all vm-related simple tests
consolidated as test/simple/test-vm-* (some of them were formerly
test/simple/test-script-*). At the same time they switched from
`common.debug` to `console.error` and were updated to use
`assert.throws` instead of rolling their own error-testing methods.
New tests were also added, of course, demonstrating the new
capabilities and fixes.
[1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.10.16/api/vm.html#vm_caveats
[2]: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify
[3]: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5323#issuecomment-20250726
[4]: https://github.com/kkoopa/contextify/blob/bf123f3ef960f0943d1e30bda02e3163a004e964/src/contextify.cc
[5]: https://gist.github.com/domenic/6068120
Change process.domain to use a getter/setter and access that property
via an array index. These are much faster to get from c++, and it can be
passed to _setupDomainUse and stored as a Persistent<Array>.
InDomain() and GetDomain() as trivial ways to access the domain
information in the native layer. Important because we'll be able to
quickly access if a domain is active. Instead of just whether the domain
module has been loaded.
* Change calls to String::New() and String::NewSymbol() to their
respective one-byte, two-byte and UTF-8 counterparts.
* Add a FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING macro that takes a string literal and
turns it into a v8::Local<v8::String>.
* Add helper functions that make v8::String::NewFromOneByte() easier to
work with. Said function expects a `const uint8_t*` but almost every
call site deals with `const char*` or `const unsigned char*`. Helps
us avoid doing reinterpret_casts all over the place.
* Code that handles file system paths keeps using UTF-8 for backwards
compatibility reasons. At least now the use of UTF-8 is explicit.
* Remove v8::String::NewSymbol() entirely. Almost all call sites were
effectively minor de-optimizations. If you create a string only once,
there is no point in making it a symbol. If you are create the same
string repeatedly, it should probably be cached in a persistent
handle.
To prevent all unnecessary calls to JS from MakeCallback, the remaining
two immediate return variables inTick and lastThrew have been added to
infoBox. Now MakeCallback should never need to call into JS unless it
absolutely has to.
Also removed Tock. Performance tests showed it was at least as fast or
faster than using a normal object, and this is more readable.
It imports the definition into every source file that includes
string_bytes.h, as evidenced by the build suddenly breaking left
and right because of missing Handle/Local/String/Value imports.
V8 3.20.9 enforces that external pointers are aligned on a two-byte
boundary.
We cannot portably guarantee that for the source code strings that
tools/js2c.py generates so simply stop using String::NewExternal()
altogether (and by extension String::ExternalAsciiStringResource).
Fixes the following run-time assert:
FATAL ERROR: v8::String::NewExternal() Pointer is not aligned
Libuv now returns errors directly. Make everything in src/ and lib/
follow suit.
The changes to lib/ are not strictly necessary but they remove the need
for the abominations that are process._errno and node::SetErrno().
Helps catch bugs early on. Without it, V8 throws the fairly
unhelpful exception "TypeError: undefined is not a function" -
unhelpful because there is no stack trace.
Previously there was no way to pass a Function callback directly to
MakeCallback and support domains. The check has been added so that users
never have to worry about supporting domains while using MakeCallback.
This is a big commit that touches just about every file in the src/
directory. The V8 API has changed in significant ways. The most
important changes are:
* Binding functions take a const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<T>& argument
rather than a const v8::Arguments& argument.
* Binding functions return void rather than v8::Handle<v8::Value>. The
return value is returned with the args.GetReturnValue().Set() family
of functions.
* v8::Persistent<T> no longer derives from v8::Handle<T> and no longer
allows you to directly dereference the object that the persistent
handle points to. This means that the common pattern of caching
oft-used JS values in a persistent handle no longer quite works,
you first need to reconstruct a v8::Local<T> from the persistent
handle with the Local<T>::New(isolate, persistent) factory method.
A handful of (internal) convenience classes and functions have been
added to make dealing with the new API a little easier.
The most visible one is node::Cached<T>, which wraps a v8::Persistent<T>
with some template sugar. It can hold arbitrary types but so far it's
exclusively used for v8::Strings (which was by far the most commonly
cached handle type.)
UsingDomains() assigned process_tickCallback when it had already
been set by MakeCallback() a few frames down the call stack.
Dispose the handle first or we'll retain whatever is in the lexical
closure of the old process._tickCallback function.
Fixes#5795.
Most TryCatch blocks have SetVerbose flag on, this tells V8 to report
uncaught exceptions to debugger.
FatalException handler is called from V8 Message listener instead from
the place where TryCatch was used. Otherwise uncaught exceptions are
logged twice.
See comment in `deps/v8/include/v8.h` for explanation of SetVerbose
flag:
> By default, exceptions that are caught by an external exception
> handler are not reported. Call SetVerbose with true on an
> external exception handler to have exceptions caught by the
> handler reported as if they were not caught.
The flag is used by `Isolate::ShouldReportException()`, which is called
by `Isolate::DoThrow()` to decide whether an exception is considered
uncaught.
Ben Noordhuis