Consider: `let vim = rpcstart('nvim', ['--embed'])`
Allows `rpcnotify(vim, ...)` to work like an asynchronous
`rpcrequest(nvim, ...)`.
Helped-by: Michael Reed <m.reed@mykolab.com>
Helped-by: Justin M. Keyes <>
We already use wrappers for allocation, the new `xfree` function is the
equivalent for deallocation and provides a way to fully replace the malloc
implementation used by Neovim.
Klib pools were used to improve allocation efficiency for some small objects,
but it is not a thread-safe approach. Thread safety in allocations will be
required for implementing #2371).
channel_write() uses a ref-counted buffer for writing. This buffer
should be released if it was used in "refcount" channel_write() calls.
But calling channel_write() on a closed channel would return early and
not decrease the refcount of the used buffer.
Notifications for a channel will be sent directly if there are no
pending requests (for this channel). Otherwise notifications are queued
for later sending.
But in two cases a notification could be sent with pending requests:
* Broadcasting a notification
* A channel that has just finished its last pending request
would call send_delayed_notifications() for all channels.
To prevent this, every channel can now only send its own delayed
notifications and broadcasting checks for pending requests.
- Remove JobActivity autocmd and v:job_data variable
- Simplify `jobstart` to receive:
- An argument vector
- An optional dictionary which may contain any of the current `jobstart`
options plus `on_stdout`, `on_stderr` and `on_exit` callbacks.
- Refactor and add more job tests
- Update documentation
Add missing parentheses and whatnot, move dangling comment, etc. Some
specific items worth mentioning:
Fixed some references to non-existent tags, found via `make html`
msgpack_rpc/channel.c:
ELOG already prefixes each line with "error @ ..."
Switching cursor off is only necessary in two occasions:
- When redrawing to avoid terminal flickering
- When the editor is busy
The first can now be handled by the TUI, so most calls to ui_cursor_off can be
removed from the core.
So, before this commit it was only necessary to switch the cursor off to notify
the user that nvim was running some long operation. Now the cursor_{on,off}
functions have been replaced by busy_{stop,start} which can be handled in a
UI-specific way(turning the cursor off or showing a busy indicator, for
example).
To make things even more simpler, nvim is always busy except when waiting for
user input or other asynchronous events: It automatically switches to a non-busy
state when the event loop is about to be entered for more than 100 milliseconds.
`ui_busy_start` can be called when its not desired to change the busy state in
the event loop (As its now done by functions that perform blocking shell
invocations).
- process spawning was decoupled from the rest of the job control logic. The
goal is reusing it for spawning processes connected to pseudo terminal file
descriptors.
- job_start now receives a JobOptions structure containing all the startup
options.
- Removed term.c, term.h and term_defs.h
- Tests for T_* values were removed. screen.c was simplified as a
consequence(the best strategy for drawing is implemented in the UI layer)
- Redraw functions now call ui.c functions directly. Updates are flushed with
`ui_flush()`
- Removed all termcap options(they now return empty strings for compatibility)
- &term/&ttybuiltin options return a constant value(nvim)
- &t_Co is still available, but it mirrors t_colors directly
- Remove cursor tracking from screen.c and the `screen_start` function. Now the
UI is expected to maintain cursor state across any call, and reset it when
resized.
- Remove unused code
- Remove abstract_ui global, now it is always active
- Remove some terminal handling code
- Remove unused functions
- Remove HAVE_TGETENT/TERMINFO/TERMIOS/IOCTL #ifdefs
- Remove tgetent/terminfo from version.c
- Remove curses/terminfo dependencies
- Only start/stop termcap when starting/exiting the program
- msg_use_printf will return true if there are no attached UIs(
messages will be written to stdout)
- Remove `ex_winpos`(implement `:winpos` with `ex_ni`)
Problem : Read from pointer after free @ {242, 391}.
Diagnostic : Real issues.
Rationale : Channel gets indeed freed on error case, producing
incorrect accesses to freed pointer later on.
Resolution : Implement reference counting mechanism to know when to free
channel.
ASAN detected this heap-use-after-free.
A job started by channel_from_job() could terminate and result in a call
to free_channel(), while channel_send_call() was still active/pending
and accessing Channel elements.
Original patch by @tarruda.
It is currently possible for a client to send a response that doesn't match the
current server->client request(at the top of the stack). This commit fixes that
by delaying notifications to until the first `channel_send_call` invocation
returns.
Also remove the "call stack" size check, vim will already break if the call
stack goes too deep.
Commit @264e0d872c("Remove automatic event deferral") removed the immediate
event queue because event deferral now had to be explicit. The problem is that
while some events don't need to be deferred, they still can result in recursive
`event_poll` calls, and recursion is not supported by libuv. Examples of those
are msgpack-rpc requests while a server->client request is pending, or signals
which can call `mch_exit`(and that will result in `uv_run` calls).
To fix the problem, this reintroduces the immediate event queue for events that
can potentially result in event loop recursion. The non-deferred events are
still processed in `event_poll`, but only after `uv_run` returns.
