From 43e3013260338e45c100843579ac7ebc2788e586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DualFroz <me@dualfroz.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 18:00:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add Pipe and pipeAt

---
 src/pipe.c | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 161 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/pipe.c

diff --git a/src/pipe.c b/src/pipe.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..683ab54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pipe.c
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+#include "pipe.h"
+#include "ring.h"
+#include "sched.h"
+#include "ports.h"
+
+typedef struct Pipe {
+    RingBuffer ring;
+    uint8 backing[pipeBufferSize];
+    uint32 readers;
+    uint32 writers;
+    bool used;
+    /* Set once, permanently (mirrors Thread.everRan, sched.h), the first
+       time a reader/writer is ever attached. A pipeCreateDetached handle
+       starts with both counts AND both of these false, so pipeRead/
+       pipeWrite can tell "the other end just has not attached yet" (keep
+       retrying) apart from "it attached and then went away" (true EOF /
+       broken pipe) -- pipeCreate sets both true immediately, since its
+       caller always installs both ends atomically, so its behavior is
+       completely unchanged. */
+    bool everHadReader;
+    bool everHadWriter;
+    /* Distinguishes THIS specific pipe living at a given slot from any other
+       pipe that has occupied (or will ever occupy) the same numeric handle
+       before or after -- pipeReleaseIfUnused frees a slot's `used` flag the
+       moment both ends are gone, so allocPipeSlot happily reuses that same
+       number for a completely unrelated pipeCreate/pipeCreateDetached right
+       after. A caller that caches a handle across time spanning such a
+       release (vfs.c's SFS-backed named-fifo bindings, see sfsFifoHandleFor
+       in vfs.c) needs more than pipeValid(handle) to tell "the same pipe I
+       bound to earlier" apart from "a different pipe that happens to have
+       been assigned the same number since" -- see pipeIncarnation. */
+    uint32 incarnation;
+} Pipe;
+
+static Pipe pipes[maxPipes];
+
+/* Never 0 (see pipeIncarnation's "0 always means invalid" contract) -- next
+   value handed to whichever pipe allocPipeSlot's caller creates next,
+   regardless of which slot index it lands in. */
+static uint32 nextPipeIncarnation = 1;
+
+static Pipe* pipeAt(int handle)
+{
+    if (handle < 0 || handle >= (int)maxPipes)
+        return nullptr;
+    if (!pipes[handle].used)
+        return nullptr;
+    return &pipes[handle];
+}
+
+static int allocPipeSlot(void)
+{
+    for (int i = 0; i < (int)maxPipes; i++)
+        if (!pipes[i].used)
+            return i;
+    return -1;
+}
+
+int pipeCreate(void)
+{
+    int i = allocPipeSlot();
+    if (i < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    Pipe* p = &pipes[i];
+    ringInit(&p->ring, p->backing, pipeBufferSize);
+    p->readers = 1;
+    p->writers = 1;
+    p->everHadReader = true;
+    p->everHadWriter = true;
+    p->used = true;
+    p->incarnation = nextPipeIncarnation++;
+    return i;
+}
+
+int pipeCreateDetached(void)
+{
+    int i = allocPipeSlot();
+    if (i < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    Pipe* p = &pipes[i];
+    ringInit(&p->ring, p->backing, pipeBufferSize);
+    p->readers = 0;
+    p->writers = 0;
+    p->everHadReader = false;
+    p->everHadWriter = false;
+    p->used = true;
+    p->incarnation = nextPipeIncarnation++;
+    return i;
+}
+
+void pipeAddReader(int handle)
+{
+    Pipe* p = pipeAt(handle);
+    if (!p)
+        return;
+    p->readers++;
+    p->everHadReader = true;
+}
+
+void pipeAddWriter(int handle)
+{
+    Pipe* p = pipeAt(handle);
+    if (!p)
+        return;
+    p->writers++;
+    p->everHadWriter = true;
+}
+
+bool pipeWriteBroken(int handle)
+{
+    Pipe* p = pipeAt(handle);
+    if (!p)
+        return true;
+    return p->readers == 0 && p->everHadReader;
+}
+
+const void* pipeChannel(int handle)
+{
+    return (const void*)pipeAt(handle);
+}
+
+bool pipeValid(int handle)
+{
+    return pipeAt(handle) != nullptr;
+}
+
+uint32 pipeIncarnation(int handle)
+{
+    Pipe* p = pipeAt(handle);
+    if (!p)
+        return 0;
+    return p->incarnation;
+}
+
+int64 pipeRead(int handle, void* buffer, uint64 length)
+{
+    Pipe* p = pipeAt(handle);
+    if (!p)
+        return -1;
+    if (length == 0)
+        return 0;
+
+    if (!ringIsEmpty(&p->ring)) {
+        usize got = ringRead(&p->ring, (uint8*)buffer, (usize)length);
+        /* Reading frees ring space: any writer blocked on "buffer full" may
+           now be able to proceed, so give it a chance to recheck. */
+        schedWakeChannel((const void*)p);
+        schedWakeChannel(schedPollChannel());
+        return (int64)got;
+    }
+
+    /* Only a writer that WAS attached and has since gone away means true
+       EOF -- a pipeCreateDetached handle nobody has written to yet (readers
+       0, everHadWriter false) has to keep reporting "try again" instead,
+       or a reader that races ahead of the writer's own vfsPipeAttach would
+       see spurious end-of-file on an otherwise perfectly live pipe. */
+    if (p->writers == 0 && p->everHadWriter)
+        return 0;
+