Windows: Fix issues with paths in extensions (#37811)
Max Brunsfeld
and
Jakub Konka
created
### Background
Zed extensions use WASI to access the file-system. They only have
read-write access to one specific folder called their work dir. But
extensions do need to be able to *refer* to other arbitrary files on the
user's machine. For instance, extensions need to be able to look up
existing binaries on the user's `PATH`, and request that Zed invoke them
as language servers. Similarly, extensions can create paths to files in
the user's project, and use them as arguments in commands that Zed
should run. For these reasons, we pass *real* paths back and forth
between the host and extensions; we don't try to abstract over the
file-system with some virtualization scheme.
On Windows, this results in a bit of mismatch, because `wasi-libc` uses
*unix-like* path conventions (and thus, so does the Rust standard
library when compiling to WASI).
### Change 1 - Fixing `current_dir`
In order to keep the extension API minimal, extensions use the standard
library function`env::current_dir()` to query the location of their
"work" directory. Previously, when initializing extensions, we used the
`env::set_current_dir` function to set their work directory, but on
Windows, where absolute paths typically begin with a drive letter, like
`C:`, the [`wasi-libc` implementation of
`chdir`](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-libc/blob/d1793637d8afcdc730408e7b6a19a050c3336ce7/libc-bottom-half/sources/chdir.c#L21)
was prepending an extra forward slash to the path, which caused
`current_dir()` to return an invalid path.
See https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/10415
In this PR, I've switched our extension initialization function to
*bypass* wasi-libc's `chdir` function, and instead write directly to
wasi-libc's private, internal state. This is a bit of a hack, but it
causes the `current_dir()` function to do what we want on Windows
without any changes to extensions' source code.
### Change 2 - Working around WASI's relative path handling
Once `current_dir` was fixed (giving us correct absolute paths on
Windows), @kubkon and I discovered that without the spurious leading `/`
character, windows absolute paths were no longer accepted by Rust's
`std::fs` APIs, because they were now recognized as relative paths, and
were being appended to the working directory.
We first tried to override the `__wasilibc_find_abspath` function in
`wasi-libc` to make it recognize windows absolute paths as being
absolute, but that functionality is difficult to override. Eventually
@kubkon realized that we could prevent WASI-libc's CWD handling from
being linked into the WASM file by overriding the `chdir` function.
wasi-libc is designed so that if you don't use their `chdir` function,
then all paths will be interpreted as relative to `/`. This makes
absolute paths behave correctly. Then, in order to make *relative* paths
work again, we simply add a preopen for `.`. Relative paths will match
that.
### Next Steps
This is a change to `zed-extension-api`, so we do need to update every
Zed extension to use the new version, in order for them to work on
windows.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Jakub Konka <kubkon@jakubkonka.com>
@@ -587,6 +587,10 @@ impl ExtensionStore {
/// This can be used to make certain functionality provided by extensions
/// available out-of-the-box.
pub fn auto_install_extensions(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<Self>) {
+ if cfg!(test) {
+ return;
+ }
+
let extension_settings = ExtensionSettings::get_global(cx);
let extensions_to_install = extension_settings