annotate mercurial/mpatch.h @ 31956:c13ff31818b0

ui: add special-purpose atexit functionality

In spite of its longstanding use, Python's built-in atexit code is
not suitable for Mercurial's purposes, for several reasons:

* Handlers run after application code has finished.

* Because of this, the code that runs handlers swallows exceptions
  (since there's no possible stacktrace to associate errors with).
  If we're lucky, we'll get something spat out to stderr (if stderr
  still works), which of course isn't any use in a big deployment
  where it's important that exceptions get logged and aggregated.

* Mercurial's current atexit handlers make unfortunate assumptions
  about process state (specifically stdio) that, coupled with the
  above problems, make it impossible to deal with certain categories
  of error (try "hg status > /dev/full" on a Linux box).

* In Python 3, the atexit implementation is completely hidden, so
  we can't hijack the platform's atexit code to run handlers at a
  time of our choosing.

As a result, here's a perfectly cromulent atexit-like implementation
over which we have control.  This lets us decide exactly when the
handlers run (after each request has completed), and control what
the process state is when that occurs (and afterwards).

#ifndef _HG_MPATCH_H_
#define _HG_MPATCH_H_

#define MPATCH_ERR_NO_MEM -3
#define MPATCH_ERR_CANNOT_BE_DECODED -2
#define MPATCH_ERR_INVALID_PATCH -1

struct mpatch_frag {
	int start, end, len;
	const char *data;
};

struct mpatch_flist {
	struct mpatch_frag *base, *head, *tail;
};

int mpatch_decode(const char *bin, ssize_t len, struct mpatch_flist** res);
ssize_t mpatch_calcsize(ssize_t len, struct mpatch_flist *l);
void mpatch_lfree(struct mpatch_flist *a);
int mpatch_apply(char *buf, const char *orig, ssize_t len,
	struct mpatch_flist *l);
struct mpatch_flist *mpatch_fold(void *bins,
	struct mpatch_flist* (*get_next_item)(void*, ssize_t),
	ssize_t start, ssize_t end);

#endif