For every IPC message sent, we currently prepend the message size to the
IPC message buffer. This incurs the cost of copying the entire message
to its newly allocated position. Instead, reserve the bytes for the size
at the front of the buffer upon creation. Prevent dangerous access to
the buffer with specific public methods.
This large block of code is repeated nearly verbatim in LibWeb. Move it
to a helper function that both LibIPC and LibWeb can defer to. This will
let us make changes to this method in a singular location going forward.
Note this is a bit of a regression for the MessagePort. It now suffers
from the same performance issue that IPC messages face - we prepend the
meessage size to the message buffer. This degredation is very temporary
though, as a fix is imminent, and this change makes that fix easier.
This class had slightly confusing semantics and the added weirdness
doesn't seem worth it just so we can say "." instead of "->" when
iterating over a vector of NNRPs.
This patch replaces NonnullRefPtrVector<T> with Vector<NNRP<T>>.
This propagates errors from user-defined encoders up to IPC::Connection.
There, we currently just log the error, as we aren't in a position to
propagate it further (i.e. we are inside a deferred invocation).
Previously <AK/Function.h> also included <AK/OwnPtr.h>. That's about to
change though. This patch fixes a few build problems that will occur
when that change happens.
This patch removes the IPC endpoint numbers that needed to be specified
in the IPC files. Since the string hash is a (hopefully) collision free
number that depends on the name of the endpoint, we now use that
instead. :^)
Additionally, endpoint magic is now treated as a u32, because endpoint
numbers were never negative anyway.
For cases where the endpoint number does have to be hardcoded (a current
case is LookupServer because the endpoint number must be known in LibC),
the syntax has been made more explicit to avoid confusing those
unfamiliar. To hardcode the endpoint magic, the following syntax is now
used:
endpoint EndpointName [magic=1234]
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
If you don't need a file descriptor after sending it to someone over
IPC, construct it with IPC::File(fd, IPC::File::CloseAfterSending)
and LibIPC will take care of it for you. :^)
