liburing commit: 1bafb3ce5f
As stated in the liburing commit message, this fixes a regression,
reverting code that was added specutively to avoid a syscall in some
cases.
The modification to the grammar in the comment is in line with the
grammar in the zig-spec repo.
Note: checking if the previous token is a colon is insufficent to tell
if a block has a label, the identifier must be checked for as well. This
can be seen in sentinel terminated slicing: `foo[0..1:{}]`
In order to update the printed progress string the code tried to move
the cursor N cells to the left, where N is the number of written bytes,
and then clear the remaining part of the line.
This strategy has two main issues:
- Is only valid if the number of characters is equal to the number of
written bytes,
- Is only valid if the line doesn't get too long.
The second point is the main motivation for this change, when the line
becomes too long the terminal wraps it to a new physical line. This
means that moving the cursor to the left won't be enough anymore as once
the left border is reached it cannot move anymore.
The wrapped line is still stored by the terminal as a single line,
despite now taking more than a single one when displayed. If you try to
resize the terminal you'll notice how the contents are reflowed and are
essentially illegible.
Querying the cursor position on non-Windows systems (plot twist,
Microsoft suggests using VT escape sequences on newer systems) is
extremely cumbersome so let's do something different.
Before printing anything let's save the cursor position and clear the
screen below the cursor, this way we ensure there's absolutely no trace
of stale data on screen, and after the message is printed we simply
restore it.
Currently `// zig fmt: off` does not work as there are two spaces
after the `//` instead of one. This can cause confusion, so allow
arbitrary whitespace before the `zig fmt: (off|on)` in the comment but
trim this whitespace to the canonical single space in the output.
Let's follow the road paved by the removal of 'z'/'Z', the Formatter
pattern is nice enough to let us remove the remaining four special cases
and declare u8 slices free from any special casing!
OCB has been around for a long time.
It's simpler, faster and more secure than AES-GCM.
RFC 7253 was published in 2014. OCB also won the CAESAR competition
along with AEGIS.
It's been implemented in OpenSSL and other libraries for years.
So, why isn't everybody using it instead of GCM? And why don't we
have it in Zig already?
The sad reason for this was patents. GCM was invented only to work
around these patents, and for all this time, OCB was that nice
thing that everybody knew existed but that couldn't be freely used.
That just changed. The OCB patents are now abandoned, and OCB's
author just announced that OCB was officially public domain.
