Implement app streams: stdio for apps (#640)

Implement file IO for applications to facilitate text input/output capturing.

Apps can now launch apps and:
- Read their stdio output
- Write to their stdio input
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Ken Van Hoeylandt
2026-08-30 12:07:40 +02:00
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parent 64fb1a9f52
commit 6e5e35610b
20 changed files with 1540 additions and 10 deletions
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#pragma once
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <tactility/error.h>
#include <tactility/freertos/freertos.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/** Which readiness condition to block for in AppFileOps::await(). */
typedef enum {
APP_FILE_WAIT_READABLE,
APP_FILE_WAIT_WRITABLE,
} AppFileWait;
/** Bits returned by AppFileOps::poll(). */
#define APP_FILE_READABLE (1u << 0)
#define APP_FILE_WRITABLE (1u << 1)
/**
* Operations table for one kind of file-like object (stream, file, device, ...). Every function
* takes the type-erased `object` a concrete AppFile instance was constructed with.
*/
struct AppFileOps {
ssize_t (*read)(void* object, void* buffer, size_t size);
ssize_t (*write)(void* object, const void* buffer, size_t size);
error_t (*close)(void* object);
error_t (*await)(void* object, AppFileWait wait, TickType_t timeout);
/** @return bitmask of APP_FILE_READABLE / APP_FILE_WRITABLE. */
uint32_t (*poll)(void* object);
/** Optional (may be NULL). Called by app_fd_table_get_and_retain() atomically with the fd
* lookup, before handing `object` to a caller about to dispatch into it, so a concurrent
* teardown of `object` can wait for that dispatch to finish instead of racing it. The caller
* calls release() once done, regardless of what the dispatched call returned. */
void (*retain)(void* object);
void (*release)(void* object);
};
/** A file-descriptor-table entry: an operations table paired with the object it operates on. */
struct AppFile {
const struct AppFileOps* ops;
void* object;
};
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#pragma once
#include <stddef.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#define STDIN_FILENO 0
#define STDOUT_FILENO 1
#define STDERR_FILENO 2
/** Fixed size of an app instance's fd table. FD allocation uses the lowest unused index >= 3. */
#define APP_MAX_FDS 16
/**
* FD-table dispatch for read()/write()/close(). When the calling task belongs to a running app
* instance and @a fd is one that instance bound/allocated itself, it's looked up in that
* instance's own fd table. Otherwise (no app instance, e.g. a kernel service task; or an app
* instance's own fd that was never bound through app-module, e.g. a real file from fopen()/
* open(), which this layer never intercepts) @a fd is a real underlying fd and the call falls
* through to the real syscall unchanged.
* @return number of bytes transferred, 0 on EOF (read) or a closed peer (write), or -1 with
* errno set on failure. This is the fd-layer translation of AppFileOps::read()/write()'s ssize_t
* and AppFileOps::close()'s error_t.
*/
ssize_t app_io_read(int fd, void* buffer, size_t size);
ssize_t app_io_write(int fd, const void* buffer, size_t size);
int app_io_close(int fd);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
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#include <app/instance.h>
#include <app/manifest.h>
#include <app/stream.h>
#include <tactility/error.h>
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*/
error_t app_manager_start_for_result(const char* id, AppInstanceId parent_instance_id, int argc, const char* const argv[], AppInstanceId* out_app_instance_id);
/** One fd-to-stream binding for app_manager_start_with_streams(). Every field is passed through
* to app_stream_subscribe() as-is; see its own doc for the ownership contracts. */
struct AppStreamBinding {
int producer_fd;
struct AppStream* stream;
void* buffer;
size_t buffer_capacity;
struct TaskEventGroup* event_group;
};
/**
* Same as app_manager_start(), but installs @a bindings into the new instance's fd table before
* its task begins executing (e.g. a child's stdio, piped through parent-owned AppStreams; see
* app/stream.h). Writes the new instance's id into each bound stream's producer_id itself, since
* the caller cannot know it in advance.
* @param[in] bindings @a binding_count entries; each stream and buffer must stay alive (see
* app_stream_subscribe()) until unsubscribed or the child exits.
* @retval ERROR_NOT_FOUND no manifest with this id is registered, or no AppLoaderApi is registered
* @retval ERROR_OUT_OF_RANGE a binding's producer_fd is out of range
* @retval ERROR_RESOURCE a binding's event_group has no free bits left to claim
* @retval ERROR_NONE on success
*/
error_t app_manager_start_with_streams(const char* id, const struct AppStreamBinding* bindings, size_t binding_count, AppInstanceId* out_app_instance_id);
/**
* Stop an app instance permanently. Emits APP_EVENT_CLOSE and bound-waits for its task to exit
* if it was running.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#pragma once
#include <app/file.h>
#include <app/instance.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <tactility/concurrent/mutex.h>
#include <tactility/concurrent/task_event_group.h>
#include <tactility/error.h>
#include <tactility/freertos/freertos.h>
#include <tactility/freertos/task.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/** @warning This is internal data. Do not read/write to it directly. */
struct AppStreamBuffer {
uint8_t* data;
size_t capacity;
size_t read_pos;
size_t write_pos;
size_t count;
};
/**
* Buffered byte-oriented communication between one producer task and one consumer task. The
* consumer owns the AppStream object and its lifetime. See app_stream_subscribe().
*
* @warning This is internal data. Do not read/write to it directly.
*/
struct AppStream {
struct AppStreamBuffer buffer;
AppInstanceId producer_id;
TaskHandle_t producer_task;
/** fd this stream is installed at in producer_id's fd table; set by
* app_stream_subscribe()/app_manager_start_with_streams(), used by
* app_stream_unsubscribe() to find it again. */
int producer_fd;
struct Mutex mutex;
/** Caller-owned group readiness is signalled on; see app_stream_subscribe(). */
struct TaskEventGroup* event_group;
uint32_t readable_bit;
uint32_t writable_bit;
bool closed;
/** Count of AppFileOps calls currently executing against this stream; app_stream_unsubscribe()
* waits for this to reach 0 before destructing `mutex`, since a call already blocked in
* app_stream_await() when unsubscribe starts only wakes (it doesn't vanish) when closed. */
int active_operations;
};
/**
* Registers @a stream as the file-like object bound to @a producer_id's fd table at
* @a producer_fd, claiming two bits from @a event_group for its readable/writable readiness.
* There is at most one subscriber for a given app fd. Subscribing over an existing one
* atomically closes it first (any task blocked on it wakes; already-buffered bytes remain
* readable until drained) and installs @a stream in its place.
* @param[in,out] stream caller-owned. Storage must remain valid until app_stream_unsubscribe()
* returns. That is the only operation guaranteeing both that the fd-table binding is gone and
* that no AppFileOps call is still executing against @a stream; app_stream_close() alone does
* neither.
* @param[in] buffer ring buffer storage; caller-owned, same validity requirement as @a stream.
* @param[in] buffer_capacity size of @a buffer in bytes.
* @param[in] event_group caller-owned; must outlive @a stream (i.e. be destructed only after
* app_stream_unsubscribe()). Lets a task wait on this stream's readiness together with other
* event sources sharing the same group via task_event_group_wait()/task_event_group_wait_any().
* @retval ERROR_NOT_FOUND no instance with this id is running
* @retval ERROR_OUT_OF_RANGE @a producer_fd is out of range
* @retval ERROR_RESOURCE @a event_group has no free bits left to claim
* @retval ERROR_NONE on success
*/
error_t app_stream_subscribe(struct AppStream* stream, void* buffer, size_t buffer_capacity, struct TaskEventGroup* event_group, AppInstanceId producer_id, int producer_fd);
/**
* Removes @a stream's binding from whichever fd table it was installed in (further use of that
* fd then fails), wakes and waits for every AppFileOps call currently in flight against
* @a stream to finish, then releases its two bits back to the event_group given to
* app_stream_subscribe() and destructs its internal mutex. Only after this returns is
* @a stream's storage safe to free or reuse.
*/
error_t app_stream_unsubscribe(struct AppStream* stream);
/**
* Blocks until @a stream becomes readable/writable (per @a wait) or @a timeout elapses. Checks
* the current state directly before blocking, so a permanently-true condition (e.g. closed)
* keeps returning immediately on every call, even though the underlying event bit itself is
* one-shot (task_event_group_wait() clears a matched bit on exit).
* @retval ERROR_NONE the condition is true
* @retval ERROR_TIMEOUT @a timeout elapsed
* @retval ERROR_ISR_STATUS called from an ISR
*/
error_t app_stream_await(struct AppStream* stream, AppFileWait wait, TickType_t timeout);
/** Non-blocking: copies up to @a buffer_size currently-available bytes out of @a stream. */
size_t app_stream_read(struct AppStream* stream, void* buffer, size_t buffer_size);
/** Non-blocking: copies up to @a buffer_size bytes into @a stream, as much as currently fits.
* Copies nothing and returns 0 once @a stream is closed. */
size_t app_stream_write(struct AppStream* stream, const void* buffer, size_t buffer_size);
/**
* Marks @a stream closed: wakes any task blocked in app_stream_await(), and causes the other side
* to observe EOF (reader, once drained) or a write error (writer). Safe to call while another
* task may be blocked on @a stream, unlike app_stream_unsubscribe() (see its own doc); does not
* by itself make @a stream's storage safe to free.
*/
error_t app_stream_close(struct AppStream* stream);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif