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carllerche opened this issue Aug 7, 2014 · 1 comment
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os::change_dir is outdated #16315

carllerche opened this issue Aug 7, 2014 · 1 comment

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It seems to me that os::change_dir is an outdated function. At the very least, it should return an IoResult with information about what caused the failure.
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aturon commented Aug 7, 2014

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bors added a commit that referenced this issue Nov 18, 2014
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auto merge of #18870 : barosl/rust/os-ioresult, r=alexcrichton
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Make old-fashioned functions in the `std::os` module utilize `IoResult`.

I'm still investigating the possibility to include more functions in this pull request. Currently, it covers `getcwd()`, `make_absolute()`, and `change_dir()`. The issues covered by this PR are #16946 and #16315.

A few concerns:

- Should we provide `OsError` in distinction from `IoError`? I'm saying this because in Python, those two are distinguished. One advantage that we keep using `IoError` is that we can make the error cascade down other functions whose return type also includes `IoError`. An example of such functions is `std::io::TempDir::new_in()`, which uses `os::make_absolute()` as well as returns `IoResult<TempDir>`.
- `os::getcwd()` uses an internal buffer whose size is 2048 bytes, which is passed to `getcwd(3)`. There is no upper limitation of file paths in the POSIX standard, but typically it is set to 4096 bytes such as in Linux. Should we increase the buffer size? One thing that makes me nervous is that the size of 2048 bytes already seems a bit excessive, thinking that in normal cases, there would be no filenames that even exceeds 512 bytes.

Fixes #16946.
Fixes #16315.

Any ideas are welcomed. Thanks!
@bors bors closed this as completed in 5de56b3 Nov 18, 2014
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Use IoResult in the std::os module barosl/rust
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