These stack traces kind of suck for the reasons mentioned on the
CppTrace page here (no symbols for inline functions is a major one):
https://github.com/jeremy-rifkin/cpptrace
I would consider using CppTrace if it were packaged, but to be honest, I
think that the more reasonable option is actually to move entirely to
out-of-process crash handling and symbolization.
The reason for this is that if you want to generate anything of
substance on SIGSEGV or really any deadly signal, you are stuck in
async-signal-safe land, which is not a place to be trying to run a
symbolizer. LLVM does it anyway, probably carefully, and chromium *can*
do it on debug builds but in general uses crashpad:
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:base/debug/stack_trace_posix.cc;l=974;drc=82dff63dbf9db05e9274e11d9128af7b9f51ceaa;bpv=1;bpt=1
However, some stack traces are better than *no* stack traces when we get
mystery exceptions falling out the bottom of the program. I've also
promoted the path for "mystery exceptions falling out the bottom of the
program" to hard crash and generate a core dump because although there's
been some months since the last one of these, these are nonetheless
always *atrociously* diagnosed.
We can't improve the crash handling further until either we use Crashpad
(which involves more C++ deps, no thanks) or we put in the ostensibly
work in progress Rust minidump infrastructure, in which case we need to
finish full support for Rust in libutil first.
Sample report:
Lix crashed. This is a bug. We would appreciate if you report it at https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues with the following information included:
Exception: std::runtime_error: lol
Stack trace:
0# nix::printStackTrace() in /home/jade/lix/lix3/build/src/nix/../libutil/liblixutil.so
1# 0x000073C9862331F2 in /home/jade/lix/lix3/build/src/nix/../libmain/liblixmain.so
2# 0x000073C985F2E21A in /nix/store/p44qan69linp3ii0xrviypsw2j4qdcp2-gcc-13.2.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
3# 0x000073C985F2E285 in /nix/store/p44qan69linp3ii0xrviypsw2j4qdcp2-gcc-13.2.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
4# nix::handleExceptions(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::function<void ()>) in /home/jade/lix/lix3/build/src/nix/../libmain/liblixmain.so
5# 0x00005CF65B6B048B in /home/jade/lix/lix3/build/src/nix/nix
6# 0x000073C985C8810E in /nix/store/dbcw19dshdwnxdv5q2g6wldj6syyvq7l-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
7# __libc_start_main in /nix/store/dbcw19dshdwnxdv5q2g6wldj6syyvq7l-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6
8# 0x00005CF65B610335 in /home/jade/lix/lix3/build/src/nix/nix
Change-Id: I1a9f6d349b617fd7145a37159b78ecb9382cb4e9
(but only if it is set to relaxed. no security hole here.)
Thanks to lilyball for pointing out this omission in the docs.
Change-Id: I2408a943bfe817fe660fe1c8fefef898aaf5f7e9
This caused an absolute saga which I would not like anyone else to have
to experience. Let's put in a laser targeted error message that
diagnoses this exact problem.
Fixes: lix-project/lix#484
Change-Id: I2a79f04aeb4a1b67c10115e5e39501d958836298
This avoids C++'s standard library regexes, which aren't the same
across platforms, and have many other issues, like using stack
so much that they stack overflow when processing a lot of data.
To avoid backwards and forward compatibility issues, regexes are
processed using a function converting libstdc++ regexes into Boost
regexes, escaping characters that Boost needs to have escaped, and
rejecting features that Boost has and libstdc++ doesn't.
Related context:
- Original failed attempt to use `boost::regex` in CppNix, failed due to
boost icu dependency being large (disabling ICU is no longer necessary
because linking ICU requires using a different header file,
`boost/regex/icu.hpp`): https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3826
- An attempt to use PCRE, rejected due to providing less backwards
compatibility with `std::regex` than `boost::regex`:
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7336
- Second attempt to use `boost::regex`, failed due to `}` regex failing
to compile (dealt with by writing a wrapper that parses a regular
expression and escapes `}` characters):
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7762Closes#34. Closes#476.
Change-Id: Ieb0eb9e270a93e4c7eed412ba4f9f96cb00a5fa4
This is incredibly haunted, but it can happen that you change libutil,
breaking the generation of the .json files, which then does not rebuild
the files. I don't expect they are slow to build, so it does not seem so
bad to just rebuild them every time instead of extracting a list of all
the possible deps.
We want to delete this nonsense anyway and replace it with generated
code.
Change-Id: Ia576d1a3bdee48fbaefbb5ac194354428d179a84
They are like experimental features, but opt-in instead of opt-out. They
will allow us to gracefully remove language features. See #437
Change-Id: I9ca04cc48e6926750c4d622c2b229b25cc142c42
implementing a build hook is pretty much impossible without either being
a nix, or blindly forwarding the important bits of all build requests to
some kind of nix. we've found no uses of build-hook in the wild, and the
build-hook protocol (apart from being entirely undocumented) is not able
to convey any kind of versioning information between hook and daemon. if
we want to upgrade this infrastructure (which we do), this must not stay
Change-Id: I1ec4976a35adf8105b8ca9240b7984f8b91e147e
The |> operator is a reverse function operator with low binding strength
to replace lib.pipe. Implements RFC 148, see the RFC text for more
details. Closes#438.
Change-Id: I21df66e8014e0d4dd9753dd038560a2b0b7fd805
This adds a second form to the `:log` command: it now can accept a
derivation path in addition to a derivation expression. As derivation
store paths start with `/nix/store`, this is not ambiguous.
Resolves: lix-project/lix#51
Change-Id: Iebc7b011537e7012fae8faed4024ea1b8fdc81c3
This has been causing various seemingly spurious CI failures as well as
some failures on people running tests on beta builds.
lix> ++(nix-collect-garbage-dry-run.sh:20) nix-store --gc --print-dead
lix> ++(nix-collect-garbage-dry-run.sh:20) wc -l
lix> finding garbage collector roots...
lix> error: Listing pid 87261 file descriptors: Undefined error: 0
There is no real way to write a proper test for this, other than to
start a process like the following:
int main(void) {
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
close(i);
}
sleep(10000);
}
and then let Lix's gc look at it.
I have a relatively high confidence this *will* fix the problem since I
have manually confirmed the behaviour of the libproc call is
as-unexpected, and it would perfectly explain the observed symptom.
Fixes: lix-project/lix#446
Change-Id: I67669b98377af17895644b3bafdf42fc33abd076
This was always in the lock file and we can simply actually print it.
The test for this is a little bit silly but it should correctly
control for my daring to exercise timezone code *and* locale code in a
test, which I strongly suspect nobody dared do before.
Sample (abridged):
```
Path: /nix/store/gaxb42z68bcr8lch467shvmnhjjzgd8b-source
Last modified: 1970-01-01 00:16:40
Inputs:
├───flake-compat: github:edolstra/flake-compat/0f9255e01c2351cc7d116c072cb317785dd33b33
│ Last modified: 2023-10-04 13:37:54
├───flake-utils: github:numtide/flake-utils/b1d9ab70662946ef0850d488da1c9019f3a9752a
│ Last modified: 2024-03-11 08:33:50
│ └───systems: github:nix-systems/default/da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e
│ Last modified: 2023-04-09 08:27:08
```
Change-Id: I355f82cb4b633974295375ebad646fb6e2107f9b
This *should* be sound, plus or minus the amount that the terminal code
eating code is messed up already.
This is useful for testing CLI output because it will strip the escapes
enough to just shove the expected output in a file.
Change-Id: I8a9b58fafb918466ac76e9ab585fc32fb9294819
The docs page has an incorrect escape that leads to a backslash
appearing in output. Meson stuff is self-explanatory, just shortens and
simplifies a bit.
Change-Id: Ib63adf934efd3caeb82ca82988f230e8858a79f9
The principle of this is that you can either externally build it with
Nix (actual implementation will be in a future commit), or it can be
built with meson if the Nix one is not passed in.
The idea I have is that dev shells don't receive the one from Nix to
avoid having to build it, but CI can use the one from Nix and save some
gratuitous rebuilds.
The design of this is that you can run `ninja -C build clang-tidy` and
it will simply correctly clang-tidy the codebase in spite of PCH
bullshit caused by the cc-wrapper.
This is a truly horrendous number of hacks in a ball, caused by bugs in
several pieces of software, and I am not even getting started.
I don't consider this to fix the clang-tidy issue filing, since we still
have a fair number of issues to fix even on the existing minimal
configuration, and I have not yet implemented it in CI. Realistically we
will need to do something like https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker
to be able to silence warnings without physically touching the code, or
at least *diff* reports between versions.
Also, the run-clang-tidy output design is rather atrocious and must
not be inflicted upon anyone I have respect for, since it buries the
diagnostics in a pile of invocation logs. We would do really well to
integrate with the Gerrit SARIF stuff so we can dump the reports on
people in a user-friendly manner.
Related: lix-project/lix#147
Change-Id: Ifefe533f3b56874795de231667046b2da6ff2461
If `:edit`ing a store path, don't reload repl afterwards
to avoid losing local variables: store is immutable,
so "editing" a store path is always just viewing it.
Resolves: lix-project/lix#341
Change-Id: I3747f75ce26e0595e953069c39ddc3ee80699718
Unfortunately, io_uring is totally opaque to seccomp, and while currently there
are no dangerous operations implemented, there is no guarantee that it remains
this way. This means that io_uring should be blocked entirely to ensure that
the sandbox is future-proof. This has not been observed to cause issues in
practice.
Change-Id: I45d3895f95abe1bc103a63969f444c334dbbf50d
(cherry picked from commit 8cd1d02f90eb9915e640c5d370d919fad9833c65)
nix flake show: Only print up to the first new line if it exists.
(cherry picked from commit 5281a44927bdb51bfe6e5de12262d815c98f6fe7)
add tests
(cherry picked from commit 74ae0fbdc70a5079a527fe143c4832d1357011f7)
Handle long strings, embedded new lines and empty descriptions
(cherry picked from commit 2ca7b3afdbbd983173a17fa0a822cf7623601367)
Account for total length of 80
(cherry picked from commit 1cc808c18cbaaf26aaae42bb1d7f7223f25dd364)
docs: add nix flake show description release note
fix: remove white space
nix flake show: trim length based on terminal size
test: account for terminal size
docs(flake-description): before and after commands; add myself to credits
Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10980
Change-Id: Ie1c667dc816b3dd81e65a1f5395e57ea48ee0362
* 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
* 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
* 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"
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
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
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