ocaml-multicore/eio v0.10

0.10

on GitHub

New features / API changes:

• Add Eio.Process for cross-platform subprocess support (@patricoferris @talex5 #499, reviewed by @anmonteiro @avsm @haesbaert).

• Add Eio_unix.Net module (@talex5 #516, reviewed by @avsm).
  The Unix network APIs have been cleaned up and moved here, and some missing datagram operations have been added.
  send now takes an iovec, not just a single buffer.

• Add support for domain local await (@polytypic @talex5 #494 #503).
  Allows sharing e.g. kcas data-structures across Eio and Domainslib domains.

• Add initial eio_windows backend (@patricoferris @talex5 #497 #530 #511 #523 #509, reviewed by @avsm @polytypic).

• Remove eio_luv backend (@talex5 #485).
  It was only used on Windows, and has been replaced by eio_windows.

• Unify Eio_linux.FD and Eio_posix.Fd as Eio_unix.Fd (@talex5 #491).
  Now that eio_luv is gone, there is no need for different backends to have different types for wrapped file descriptors.

• Move Eio.Stdenv.t to Eio_unix.Stdenv.base (@talex5 #498).
  Note that the rest of Eio.Stdenv is still there; only the definition of a full Unix-like environment has moved.

• Deprecation cleanups (@talex5 #508).
  Removed some APIs that were already marked as deprecated in Eio 0.8.

Bug fixes:

• eio_linux: fall back to fork if clone3 is unavailable (@talex5 #524, reported by @smondet, reviewed by @avsm).
  Docker's default security policy blocks clone3.

• Don't call accept_fork's error handler on cancellation (@talex5 #520).
  This isn't an error and should not be reported.

• Fix eio_unix_is_blocking C stub (@patricoferris #505, reviewed by @talex5).

• Fix Condition.await bug when cancelling (@polytypic @talex5 #487).

• Buf_write: fix flush returning too early (@talex5 #539, reported by @cometkim).

• Ignore ENOTCONN errors on socket shutdown (@avsm #533, reported by @patricoferris, reviewed by @talex5).

Documentation:

• Link to developer meetings information (@talex5 @Sudha247 #515).

• Adopt OCaml Code of Conduct (@Sudha247 #501).

• Add README links to Meio and Lambda Capabilities blog post (@talex5 #496).

• Document mirage Ipaddr conversion (@RyanGibb @patricoferris @talex5 #492).

• Document how to use Domainslib from Eio (@talex5 #489, reviewed by @polytypic @patricoferris).

Other changes:

• Run benchmarks with current-bench (@Sudha247 @talex5 #500).

• Fix MDX tests on OCaml 5.1 (@talex5 #526).

• Add stress test for spawning processes (@talex5 #519).
  This was an attempt to track down the ocaml/ocaml#12253 signals bug.

• Eio.Process.pp_status should be polymorphic (@talex5 #518).

• eio_posix: probe for existence of some flags (@talex5 #507, reported by @hannesm).
  FreeBSD 12 didn't have O_DSYNC. Also, add O_RESOLVE_BENEATH and O_PATH if available.

• Fix race in ctf tests (@talex5 #493).