Remove alive tracking from the network poller

This is done in preparation for
https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/inko/-/issues/274, as it removes the need
for explicitly shutting down network pollers. Once upon a time embedding
Inko was something I was toying with, and in such an environment it
makes sense to explicitly and cleanly shut down threads. But in light of
wanting to turn Inko into a compiled language, this isn't relevant
anymore, and we can simplify things by just aborting.

Changelog: changed

vm/src/machine.rs

@@ -113,22 +113,21 @@ impl<'a> Machine<'a> {
 
         {
             let state = state.clone();
-            let _ = thread::Builder::new()
+
+            thread::Builder::new()
                 .name("timeout worker".to_string())
                 .spawn(move || state.timeout_worker.run(&state.scheduler))
                 .unwrap();
-        };
+        }
 
-        let poller_guard = {
-            let thread_state = state.clone();
+        {
+            let state = state.clone();
 
             thread::Builder::new()
                 .name("network poller".to_string())
-                .spawn(move || {
-                    NetworkPollerWorker::new(thread_state).run();
-                })
-                .unwrap()
-        };
+                .spawn(move || NetworkPollerWorker::new(state).run())
+                .unwrap();
+        }
 
         // Starting the primary threads will block this thread, as the main
         // worker will run directly onto the current thread. As such, we must
@@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ impl<'a> Machine<'a> {
 
         // Joining the pools only fails in case of a panic. In this case we
         // don't want to re-panic as this clutters the error output.
-        if primary_guard.join().is_err() || poller_guard.join().is_err() {
+        if primary_guard.join().is_err() {
             state.set_exit_status(1);
         }
 

vm/src/network_poller.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ use crate::process::{Process, ProcessPointer};
 use crate::state::RcState;
 use polling::{Event, Poller, Source};
 use std::io;
-use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 
 /// The type of event a poller should wait for.
 pub(crate) enum Interest {
@@ -17,20 +16,17 @@ pub(crate) enum Interest {
 /// A poller for non-blocking sockets.
 pub(crate) struct NetworkPoller {
     poller: Poller,
-    alive: AtomicBool,
 }
 
 impl NetworkPoller {
     pub(crate) fn new() -> Self {
         NetworkPoller {
             poller: Poller::new().expect("Failed to set up the network poller"),
-            alive: AtomicBool::new(true),
         }
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn poll(&self, events: &mut Vec<Event>) -> io::Result<bool> {
-        self.poller.wait(events, None)?;
-        Ok(self.is_alive())
+    pub(crate) fn poll(&self, events: &mut Vec<Event>) -> io::Result<usize> {
+        self.poller.wait(events, None)
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn add(
@@ -51,15 +47,6 @@ impl NetworkPoller {
         self.poller.modify(source, self.event(process, interest))
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn terminate(&self) {
-        self.alive.store(false, Ordering::Release);
-        self.poller.notify().expect("Failed to notify the poller to terminate");
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn is_alive(&self) -> bool {
-        self.alive.load(Ordering::Acquire)
-    }
-
     fn event(&self, process: ProcessPointer, interest: Interest) -> Event {
         let key = process.identifier();
 
@@ -84,9 +71,14 @@ impl Worker {
         let mut events = Vec::new();
 
         loop {
-            if !self.state.network_poller.poll(&mut events).unwrap_or(false) {
-                // The poller is no longer alive, so we should shut down.
-                return;
+            if let Err(err) = self.state.network_poller.poll(&mut events) {
+                if err.kind() != io::ErrorKind::Interrupted {
+                    // It's not entirely clear if/when we ever run into this,
+                    // but should we run into any error that's _not_ an
+                    // interrupt then there's probably more going on, and all we
+                    // can do is abort.
+                    panic!("Polling for IO events failed: {:?}", err);
+                }
             }
 
             for event in &events {
@@ -155,24 +147,9 @@ mod tests {
 
         poller.add(*process, &sock1, Interest::Write).unwrap();
         poller.add(*process, &sock2, Interest::Write).unwrap();
-        poller.poll(&mut events).unwrap();
 
+        assert!(poller.poll(&mut events).is_ok());
         assert!(events.capacity() >= 2);
         assert_eq!(events.len(), 2);
     }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_terminate() {
-        let poller = NetworkPoller::new();
-        let mut events = Vec::with_capacity(1);
-
-        assert!(poller.is_alive());
-
-        poller.terminate();
-
-        assert!(!poller.poll(&mut events).unwrap());
-        assert_eq!(events.capacity(), 1);
-        assert_eq!(events.len(), 0);
-        assert!(!poller.is_alive());
-    }
 }

vm/src/state.rs

@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ impl State {
 
     pub(crate) fn terminate(&self) {
         self.scheduler.terminate();
-        self.network_poller.terminate();
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn set_exit_status(&self, new_status: i32) {