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* Add autocompleteRory Dudley2024-09-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | This patch adds a fairly rudimentary form of autocomplete. For starters, it only works for filepaths, not for programs. Additionally, it currently only works for the present working directory. You cannot yet autocomplete even one more level deep.
* Replace io::stdin().read_line() with custom functionRory Dudley2024-08-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added the termios crate to facilitate the changing of certain terminal options. It is a wrapper around the termios C library, so 'man 3 termios' for more details. Added the custom getchar() function, with retrieves characters from STDIN as they are typed by the user (as opposed to waiting for a newline, like io::stdin().read_line()). This is necessary, since keys like <tab> and <up> have special functionality, which needs to be acted on before command submission. Added the custom getline() function, which uses getchar() to read characters as they are typed. The getline() function contains the logic for the various key presses. For most characters, we simply push the byte to a buffer, and print it out to the screen (since getline() assumes ECHO is off). Notes: For now, <tab> autocomplete is not finished, so hitting the tab key only replaces the tabs with spaces in the inbut buffer. Also, some edge cases are unhandled in getline(). For instance, using the arrow keys appears to move the cursor keys. The parser gets upset when you move the cursor then try to submit a command, so this needs to be fixed.
* Add metadata to Cargo.tomlRory Dudley2024-07-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the following metadata fields to Cargo.toml, so that the package can be published on https://crates.io: - homepage: Our main website - documentation: Also our main website (no docs for now, but they will end up being hosted here in the near future) - repository: A link to the git server with the source Signed-off-by: Rory Dudley <rory@netc.lu>
* Alpha Release 1 (v0.0.1)v0.0.1Rory Dudley2024-07-181-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Rory Dudley <rory@netc.lu>
* Add an open source licenseRory Dudley2024-07-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | This patch licences the repository under the BSD 3-Clause license (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause/). Signed-off-by: Rory Dudley <rory@netc.lu>
* Update description in Cargo.tomlRory Dudley2024-03-261-1/+1
| | | | | Updated the description in Cargo.toml to fix a typo, as well as add a clarification for the POSIX compliance.
* Remove custom errors and fix background forkingRory Dudley2024-02-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removes the custom errors in src/recite/erro.rs, and replaces them with std::io::Errors throughout (recite(), incant_, macros). Fixed a bug with the way forking to the background is handled, where registering the signal handler in main for all processes would break couplets (i.e. pipes). Instead, this sets up a new signal handler each time a process is forked into the background. It uses a Vec<i32> to keep track of all the background processes. Notes: First off, there is some defunct code in the main repl loop, which is an example of killing zombie processes after each prompt. This should be removed, but I kept it in, just in case I go back to it for some reason. To be honest, I have no clue why this code works. In theory, I should have to remove the pid from the pids: Vec<i32> if waitpid returns a positive integer. However, when I tried this, it completely broke the program. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also, it's worth noting that registering a signal handler with signal_hook::low_level::register, is somewhat costly, according to their docs. Given that this only occurs for background processes that are forked, however, I think it is acceptable. Finally, we never unregister the signal handler, so I'm not sure if that's still hanging out in memory somewhere or no.
* Cleanup recite(), custom errors, fixed forkingRory Dudley2024-02-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First off, moved the giant match statements out of recite(), and into macros in src/recite/ps.rs. There still needs to be two, since any verse using the 'couplet' meter will need to redirect its STDOUT. Now the recite() function returns a Result<(), Mishap>, which can be invoked when calling the incant_ functions. Custom errors were added in the form of 'Mishap''s. They are intended to be returned from the incant_ functions, in the event that something goes wrong with the Command::spawn() or Child::wait(). They each take a String, which should be the verb or stanza that was entered by the user. The incant_ functions separate the functionality of each type of meter from the recite() function. They return a Result<i32, Mishap>, where i32 is the exit code of the program that ran, and Mishap is a possible error. Before, the shell was cheating at forking a process to the background. It would actually spawn a thread to wait for that process to finish. Now, the program simply registers a handler for SIGCHLD, and uses libc's waitpid() function to reap the child process, and print some output to the user, indicating that it's finished. Notes: This was a huge patch which did some desperately needed cleanup of the recite() function. Moving forward, will need to add more documentation, and will probably scrap the custom errors, since this implementation is a little half-baked. It's worth looking into in the future, but we can probably live with io::Error's for the time being. Fixing forking was a pretty big deal, though. In Linux, and other u**x-like operating systems, parent processes need to reap their child processes, otherwise they become zombies. Previously, the dwvsh did this by spawning a separate thread to wait for child processes that were forked to the background. Now, we are registering a handle for SIGCHLD, which is a signal that gets sent to the parent when one of their children finishes, or is killed. Using waitpid(2), we can determine which process ended, and do something about it. In the case of a processes that was forked into the background, when it finished, waitpid(2) will return its PID. For foreground processes, it returns -1.
* Replace ctrlc with signal-hooksignalRory Dudley2024-02-241-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replaced the 'ctrlc' crate with 'signal-hook' for handling of SIGINT. The 'signal_hook::low_level::register' function is actually unsafe. However, according to https://docs.rs/signal-hook/latest/signal_hook/low_level/fn.register.html, it is only unsafe in the case of multithreaded applications. There are some race conditions as well. For instance, it appears that even when we fork to a child process, SIGINT is captured on both that process, as well as the shell. Notes: The replacement was motivated by the fact that 'ctrlc' appears to use a separate thread to handle interrupts. This is evident if you run: ps aux | grep dwvsh USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START COMMAND user pid 0.0 0.0 71500 3072 term Sl+ 20:08 target/debug/dwvsh Further reading in 'man ps' under 'PROCESS STATE CODES', reveals that 'l' is a process state referring to multithreaded applications. Given the nature of interupts, this seems unnecessary. The issue where SIGINT is captured by both the shell, and child process will have to be addressed.
* Capture SIGINTRory Dudley2024-02-161-0/+1
| | | | | | Added logic to capture the interrupt signal. Using a rust crate called 'ctrlc' to do the heavy lifting. Program will simply reprint the prompt on a new line if the interrup signal is detected.
* Initial commitRory Dudley2024-02-161-0/+14
An extremely miniamal shell. It is capable of forking processes, and passing arguments to them, but that's pretty much it. Notes: This is pretty much a prototype, to see how easily something like a shell could be implemented in Rust.