[phobos] Making std.stdio.readf @safe

[Andrei Alexandrescu via phobos]

Here some research is necessary. What I did e.g. was to google for:

is fgetc_unlocked safe?

and got a bunch of answers, til I got to 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Character-Input.html 
which in turns links to "POSIX Safety Concepts" i.e. 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/POSIX-Safety-Concepts.html. 
That document sure doesn't mince words:

"MT-Unsafe, AS-Unsafe, AC-Unsafe functions are not safe to call within 
the safety contexts described above. Calling them within such contexts 
invokes undefined behavior."

So... the *_unlocked functions are not safe. They may be, however, 
wrapped in trusted functions (that issue the appropriate locking).


Andrei

On 02/07/2017 03:19 PM, Jakub Łabaj via phobos wrote:
> Ouch, yes, I meant fgetc_unlocked.
>
> Thank you for the help! As a solution I'm going to make a PR with the
> mentioned changes, i.e. copy the approach of writef and apply @trusted
> to LockingTextReader - I think I can do this, because its behaviour
> ensures that functions FGETC, FLOCK, FUNLOCK are invoked in a safe manner.
>
> On Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at 20:04:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/7/17 2:07 PM, Jakub Łabaj via phobos wrote:
>>> I see it like this:
>>> - flockfile - can be @trusted, because no matter when we call it with
>>> correct argument, it won't do anything unsafe
>>
>> affirmative
>>
>>> - funlockfile - if called by not owning thread, the behaviour is
>>> undefined - so potentially may do something unsafe (I don't know what
>> > happens if called on not locked file, probably is ignored)
>>
>> affirmative - in C "undefined" implies "unsafe"
>>
>>> fgetc - when not guarded by lock it is not thread safe, shouldn't be
>>> @trusted
>>
>> I think you mean fgetc_unlocked? fgetc issues its own locking and
>> unlocking.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
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