The goal here is to not have constant wakeups due to timeout. Do
not attempt to clean things up nicely before termination -- just
terminate instead. We can setup a proper termination system in
the future, I first want to see if this makes a difference.
Also, change xmon to use pipes for communication, so that it can
wait without timers as well.
Also, `write` directly for logging, so that we know the logs will
make it to the file after the logging call returns (since we now
do not have the chance to flush them afterwards).
It is currently very fragile, due to:
* Differing versions of compilers/DWARF version result in a variety
of breakages in the our code which analyzes the DWARF info;
* With musl, libunwind seems to be currently unable to traverse
beyond signal handlers, due to the DWARF information not
being present in the signal frame.
See <https://maskray.me/blog/2022-04-10-unwinding-through-signal-handler>.
Note that I have not verified that the problem in the blog
post above is indeed what we're hitting, but it seems plausible.
...most notably we now produce fully static binaries in an alpine
image.
A few assorted thoughts:
* I really like static binaries, ideally I'd like to run EggsFS
deployments with just systemd scripts and a few binaries.
* Go already does this, which is great.
* C++ does not, which is less great.
* Linking statically against `glibc` works, but is unsupported.
Not only stuff like NSS (which `gethostbyname` requires)
straight up does not work, unless you build `glibc` with
unsupported and currently apparently broken flags
(`--enable-static-nss`), but also other stuff is subtly
broken (I couldn't remember exactly what was broken,
but see comments such as
<https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/issues/2431#issuecomment-985880838>).
* So we're left with alternative libcs -- the most popular being
musl.
* The simplest way to build a C++ application using musl is to just
build on a system where musl is already the default libc -- such
as alpine linux.
The backtrace support is in a bit of a bad state. Exception stacktraces
work on musl, but DWARF seems to be broken on the normal release build.
Moreover, libunwind doesn't play well with musl's signal handler:
<https://maskray.me/blog/2022-04-10-unwinding-through-signal-handler>.
Keeping it working seems to be a bit of a chore, and I'm going to revisit
it later.
In the meantime, gdb stack traces do work fine.
Also, produce fully static binaries. This means that `gethostname`
does not work (doesn't work with static glibc unless you build it
with `--enable-static-nss`, which no distro builds glibc with).
