[bkueng]

This goes together with this libc PR: rust-lang/libc#5555

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[LawnGnome]

Just catching up on the last month of notifications, sorry. I don't have any context on nuttx, so I'm going to re-roll this.

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[hanna-kruppe]

I don't know anything about nuttx either, cc @no1wudi as target maintainer

From a quick glance it looks like rust-lang/libc#5555 was merged now, but only into the main branch, so it's only in the libc 1.0 pre-release, not in any 0.2.x release. My understanding is that more steps are needed before std can use the updated libc definitions:

1. Backport the libc change to the 0.2 branch
2. Wait until a new libc 0.2.x release includes the change
3. Update the standard library workspace to use that libc version

However, looking at the actual changes here, I'm not sure if this is the right way. Duplicating various struct literals just to add fields which are internal to the libc implementation on some platform doesn't seem great for maintainability. Perhaps there's a way to rewrite the affected code that works the same on all platforms including NuttX?

[bkueng]

so it's only in the libc 1.0 pre-release, not in any 0.2.x release. My understanding is that more steps are needed before std can use the updated libc definitions:

I'm not sure what the update process for libc is, I just wanted to provide the required changes upfront so it won't break.

However, looking at the actual changes here, I'm not sure if this is the right way. Duplicating various struct literals just to add fields which are internal to the libc implementation on some platform doesn't seem great for maintainability.

I agree, do you see a better solution? The primary alternative I see is using Default:

let mut pollfd = libc::pollfd {
            fd: self.as_raw_fd(),
            events: libc::POLLOUT,
            revents: 0,
            ..Default::default()
    };

Which would require implementing Default for pollfd.

[hanna-kruppe]

I would suggest the pattern of creating the C struct with mem::zeroed() and setting the relevant fields by assigning afterwards. Similar to what's done here, for example:

rust/library/std/src/sys/process/unix/pidfd.rs

Lines 31 to 32 in 96a18bf

	let mut pidfd_info: libc::pidfd_info = unsafe { crate::mem::zeroed() };
	pidfd_info.mask = libc::PIDFD_INFO_PID as u64;

Then we should be able to merge this PR independently of when the libc fix makes it into a libc 0.2.x release and that release is adopted by the standard library.

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[bkueng]

I would suggest the pattern of creating the C struct with mem::zeroed() and setting the relevant fields by assigning afterwards.

That works too (if unsafe is acceptable), and I updated accordingly.