With uv_replace_allocator, it's possible to override the default
memory allocator's malloc and free calls with functions of the user's
choosing. This allows libuv to interoperate with projects requiring a
custom memory allocator.
Internally, all calls to malloc and free have been replaced with
uv__malloc and uv__free, respectively. The uv__malloc and uv__free
functions call malloc and free unless they have been overridden by a
previous call to uv_replace_allocator.
As part of this change, the special aligned memory allocations
performed in src/win/fs-event.c have been replaced with standard
allocations. The 4-byte alignment being requested in this file was
unnecessary, since standard allocators already guarantee at least an
8-byte alignment.
PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/231
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
Ensure that close() system calls don't close stdio file descriptors
because that is almost never the intention.
This is also a partial workaround for a kernel bug that seems to affect
all Linux kernels when stdin is a pipe that gets closed: fd 0 keeps
signalling EPOLLHUP but a subsequent call to epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL)
fails with EBADF. See joyent/node#6271 for details and a test case.
This commit changes the libuv API to return error codes directly rather
than storing them in a loop-global field.
A code snippet like this one:
if (uv_foo(loop) < 0) {
uv_err_t err = uv_last_error(loop);
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", uv_strerror(err));
}
Should be rewritten like this:
int err = uv_foo(loop);
if (err < 0)
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", uv_strerror(err));
The rationale for this change is that it should make creating bindings
for other languages a lot easier: dealing with struct return values is
painful with most FFIs and often downright buggy.
