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that could cause heap corruption if
whereis lookup conflicts with other register updater
AND other thread sends on-heap message while main lock is released.
Also improved enif_whereis from dirty nifs by passing c_p as NULL.
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Add enif_whereis_pid() and enif_whereis_port() functions
OTP-14453
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and base allowed hash deviation on nr of standard deviations
to make it easier to fiddle with the work load.
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Pass number of expected messages in order to
wait longer for messages (for slow machines)
while not wasting test time waiting for nothing.
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which is scheduled on non-smp VM.
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#### Why do we need this new feature?
There are cases when a NIF needs to send a message, using `enif_send()`, to a long-lived process with a registered name.
A common use-case is logging, where asynchronous fire-and-forget messages are the norm.
There can also be cases where a yielding or dirty NIF or background thread may request a callback from a service with additional information it needs to complete its operation, yielding or waiting (with suitable timeouts, etc) until its state has been updated through the NIF module's API.
NIFs can only send messages to pids, and the lack of name resolution leaves a complicated dance between separate monitoring processes and the NIF as the only way to keep a NIF informed of the whereabouts of such long-lived processes.
Providing a reliable, built-in facility for NIFs to resolve process (or port) names simplifies these use cases considerably.
#### Risks or uncertain artifacts?
Testing has not exposed any significant risk.
The implementation behaves as expected on regular and dirty scheduler threads as well as non-scheduler threads.
By constraining the `enif_whereis_...()` functions to their minimal scopes and using patterns consistent with related functions, the implementation, testing, and maintenance burden is low.
The API and behavior of existing functions is unchanged.
#### How did you solve it?
While extending `enif_send()` to operate on a pid or an atom (as `erlang:send/2` does) was attractive, it would have entailed changing the type of its `to_pid` parameter and thereby breaking backward compatibility.
The same consideration applies to `enif_port_command()`.
That leaves a choice between 1, 2, or 3 new functions:
1. `enif_whereis()`
2. `enif_whereis_pid()` and `enif_whereis_port()`
3. All of the above.
While option (1), directly mimicking the behavior of `erlang:whereis/1`, is appealing, it poses potential problems if `pid()` or `port()` are subsequently implemented as non-integral types that must be bound to an owning `ErlNifEnv` instance.
Therefore, option (2) has been chosen to use `ErlNifPid`/`ErlNifPort` structures in the API to maintain proper term ownership semantics.
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A more generic hashing function which can also hash terms based on
`make_internal_hash'.
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These allow one to hash VM terms from NIF code.
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with pipe capacity equal to PIPE_BUF
meaning pipe must be empty to be writable.
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for now...
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to provoke resource revival race.
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Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/erl_binary.h
erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.c
erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif.c
erts/emulator/beam/global.h
erts/emulator/test/nif_SUITE_data/nif_SUITE.c
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# Conflicts:
# erts/emulator/test/nif_SUITE_data/nif_SUITE.c
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to negative int as error and positive as success.
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Macro CHECK did not fail the test case
just some nice logging that no one saw.
One ignored failure fixed; a delayed unload
after purge due to live resource with dtor.
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and instead let erlang:load_nif/2 return {error, {reload, _}}
before even trying to load the library
if a NIF library has already been successfully loaded
for the calling module instance.
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to include upgrade from deleted (old) module instance
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* rickard/time-unit/OTP-13735:
Update test-cases to use new symbolic time units
Replace misspelled symbolic time units
Conflicts:
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
erts/emulator/test/long_timers_test.erl
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* egil/erts/nif-format_term/OTP-13580:
runtime_tools: Change erts_snprintf to enif_snprintf
erts: Document enif_snprintf
erts: Add tests for enif_snprintf
erts: Add enif_snprintf
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif_api_funcs.h
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