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Disable clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr
See merge request tpo/core/arti!352
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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<Something> to Something: Clone, or vice
versa.
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Closes #338.
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It's useful to keep configuration objects inside a RwLock<Arc<>>, so we
can have slightly-stale pointers to the existing configuration structure
without holding locks too long.
This code adds a MutCfg type with basic support for this pattern,
and functions to make it a bit more ergonomic.
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This patch doesn't actually make anything reconfigurable, but it
does create an API that will tell you "you can't change the value of
that!" If the API looks reasonable, I can start making it possible
to change the values of individual items.
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To do this at all neatly, I had to split out `tor-config` from
`arti-config` again, and putting the lower level stuff (paths,
builder errors) into tor-config. I also changed our use of
derive_builder to always use a common error type, to avoid
error type proliferation.
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This switches out `arti`'s argument-parsing library with `clap`, which
is a lot more featureful (and very widely used within the Rust
ecosystem). We also now use a lot of `clap`'s features to improve the
CLI experience:
- The CLI now expects a subcommand (currently, either "help", or "proxy"
for the existing SOCKS proxy behaviour). This should let us add
additional non-SOCKS-proxy features to arti in future.
- `clap` supports default values determined at runtime, so the way the
default config file is loaded was changed: now, we determine the
OS-specific path for said file before invoking `clap`, so the help
command can show it properly.
- The behaviour of `tor_config` was also changed; now, one simply
specifies a list of configuration files to load, together with
whether they're required.
- That function also way overused generics; this has been fixed.
- Instead of using the ARTI_LOG environment variable to configure
logging, one now uses the `-l, --log-level` CLI option.
(The intent is for this option to be more discoverable by users.)
- The `proxy` subcommand allows the user to override the SOCKS port used
on the CLI without editing the config file.
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This will cause some pain for now, but now is really the best time
to do this kind of thing.
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