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<title>mirrors/arti.git/crates/tor-persist, branch derive-traits</title>
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<updated>2022-03-01T20:38:05Z</updated>
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<title>Merge branch 'clippy-allow-arc-clone' into 'main'</title>
<updated>2022-03-01T20:38:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
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<published>2022-03-01T20:38:05Z</published>
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Disable clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr

See merge request tpo/core/arti!352</content>
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<title>Bump all crates to 0.1.0</title>
<updated>2022-03-01T13:59:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
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<published>2022-03-01T13:59:34Z</published>
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<title>arti-client: Unlock the state manager on failure to bootstrap</title>
<updated>2022-02-24T19:55:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>eta</name>
<email>tor@eta.st</email>
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<published>2022-02-18T16:02:18Z</published>
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`StateMgr` got a new `unlock()` method that does what it says on the
tin. We now call it from `bootstrap()` using the new
`util::StateMgrUnlockGuard`, which works in a manner similar to the
`BoolResetter` from `tor_dirmgr`.

(A decent small little task in future might be to unify these types in
some sort of general arti utility crate?)

closes arti#335
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<entry>
<title>Disable clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr</title>
<updated>2022-02-24T18:15:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Jackson</name>
<email>ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-02-24T18:15:44Z</published>
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This lint is IMO inherently ill-conceived.

I have looked for the reasons why this might be thought to be a good
idea and there were basically two (and they are sort of contradictory):

I. "Calling ‘.clone()` on an Rc, Arc, or Weak can obscure the fact
    that only the pointer is being cloned, not the underlying data."

This is the wording from
  https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/v0.0.212/#clone_on_ref_ptr

It is a bit terse; we are left to infer why it is a bad idea to
obscure this fact.  It seems to me that if it is bad to obscure some
fact, that must be because the fact is a hazard.  But why would it be
a hazard to not copy the underlying data ?

In other languages, faliing to copy the underlying data is a serious
correctness hazard.  There is a whose class of bugs where things were
not copied, and then mutated and/or reused in multiple places in ways
that were not what the programmer intended.  In my experience, this is
a very common bug when writing Python and Javascript.  I'm told it's
common in golang too.

But in Rust this bug is much much harder to write.  The data inside an
Arc is immutable.  To have this bug you'd have use interior mutability
- ie mess around with Mutex or RefCell.  That provides a good barrier
to these kind of accidents.

II. "The reason for writing Rc::clone and Arc::clone [is] to make it
     clear that only the pointer is being cloned, as opposed to the
     underlying data. The former is always fast, while the latter can
     be very expensive depending on what is being cloned."

This is the reasoning found here
  https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/2048

This is saying that *not* using Arc::clone is hazardous.
Specifically, that a deep clone is a performance hazard.

But for this argument, the lint is precisely backwards.  It's linting
the "good" case and asking for it to be written in a more explicit
way; while the supposedly bad case can be written conveniently.

Also, many objects (in our codebase, and in all the libraries we use)
that are Clone are in fact simply handles.  They contain Arc(s) (or
similar) and are cheap to clone.  Indeed, that is the usual case.

It does not make sense to distinguish in the syntax we use to clone
such a handle, whether the handle is a transparent Arc, or an opaque
struct containing one or more other handles.

Forcing Arc::clone to be written as such makes for code churn when a
type is changed from Arc&lt;Something&gt; to Something: Clone, or vice
versa.
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<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/mr/340'</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T14:29:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
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<published>2022-02-23T14:29:40Z</published>
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<entry>
<title>Make NoLock into BadApiUsage.</title>
<updated>2022-02-22T21:13:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
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<published>2022-02-22T21:13:37Z</published>
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To implement this, we had to refactor the tor_circmgr api for
flushing state changes to disk, so that it checks if it has the lock,
and only then tries to store.
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<entry>
<title>Remove clippy::needless_borrow exception in CI.</title>
<updated>2022-02-20T14:09:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-20T14:09:38Z</published>
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This exception is no longer necessary now that the underlying CI bug
is fixed.
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<title>Change deny(clippy::all) to warn(clippy::all).</title>
<updated>2022-02-14T14:24:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Mathewson</name>
<email>nickm@torproject.org</email>
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<published>2022-02-14T14:24:06Z</published>
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Closes #338.
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<entry>
<title>errors: Drop "Error" and "Failed" from various enum variants</title>
<updated>2022-02-04T14:42:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Jackson</name>
<email>ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-02-04T14:31:43Z</published>
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<entry>
<title>tor_persist::Error: impl HasKind and adjust comments</title>
<updated>2022-02-04T14:42:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Jackson</name>
<email>ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-01-13T18:05:00Z</published>
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And change the comments to slightly reinterpret these errors, to
relate to the circumstances rather than error generation site.
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