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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2020-06-26 10:11:42 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2020-06-26 10:11:42 -0400
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-# Code Structure
-
-TODO: revise this to talk about how things are, rather than how things
-have changed.
-
-For quite a while now, the program *tor* has been built from source
-code in just two directories: **src/common** and **src/or**.
-
-This has become more-or-less untenable, for a few reasons -- most
-notably of which is that it has led our code to become more
-spaghetti-ish than I can endorse with a clean conscience.
-
-So to fix that, we've gone and done a huge code movement in our git
-master branch, which will land in a release once Tor `0.3.5.1-alpha` is
-out.
-
-Here's what we did:
-
- * **src/common** has been turned into a set of static libraries. These
-all live in the **src/lib/*** directories. The dependencies between
-these libraries should have no cycles. The libraries are:
-
- - **arch** -- Headers to handle architectural differences
- - **cc** -- headers to handle differences among compilers
- - **compress** -- wraps zlib, zstd, lzma
- - **container** -- high-level container types
- - **crypt_ops** -- Cryptographic operations. Planning to split this into
-a higher and lower level library
- - **ctime** -- Operations that need to run in constant-time. (Properly,
-data-invariant time)
- - **defs** -- miscelaneous definitions needed throughout Tor.
- - **encoding** -- transforming one data type into another, and various
-data types into strings.
- - **err** -- lowest-level error handling, in cases where we can't use
-the logs because something that the logging system needs has broken.
- - **evloop** -- Generic event-loop handling logic
- - **fdio** -- Low-level IO wrapper functions for file descriptors.
- - **fs** -- Operations on the filesystem
- - **intmath** -- low-level integer math and misc bit-twiddling hacks
- - **lock** -- low-level locking code
- - **log** -- Tor's logging module. This library sits roughly halfway up
-the library dependency diagram, since everything it depends on has to
-be carefully crafted to *not* log.
- - **malloc** -- Low-level wrappers for the platform memory allocation functions.
- - **math** -- Higher-level mathematical functions, and floating-point math
- - **memarea** -- An arena allocator
- - **meminfo** -- Functions for querying the current process's memory
-status and resources
- - **net** -- Networking compatibility and convenience code
- - **osinfo** -- Querying information about the operating system
- - **process** -- Launching and querying the status of other processes
- - **sandbox** -- Backend for the linux seccomp2 sandbox
- - **smartlist_core** -- The lowest-level of the smartlist_t data type.
-Separated from the rest of the containers library because the logging
-subsystem depends on it.
- - **string** -- Compatibility and convenience functions for manipulating
-C strings.
- - **term** -- Terminal-related functions (currently limited to a getpass
-function).
- - **testsupport** -- Macros for mocking, unit tests, etc.
- - **thread** -- Higher-level thread compatibility code
- - **time** -- Higher-level time management code, including format
-conversions and monotonic time
- - **tls** -- Our wrapper around our TLS library
- - **trace** -- Formerly src/trace -- a generic event tracing API
- - **wallclock** -- Low-level time code, used by the log module.
-
- * To ensure that the dependency graph in **src/common** remains under
-control, there is a tool that you can run called `make
-check-includes`. It verifies that each module in Tor only includes
-the headers that it is permitted to include, using a per-directory
-*.may_include* file.
-
- * The **src/or/or.h** header has been split into numerous smaller
-headers. Notably, many important structures are now declared in a
-header called *foo_st.h*, where "foo" is the name of the structure.
-
- * The **src/or** directory, which had most of Tor's code, had been split
-up into several directories. This is still a work in progress: This
-code has not itself been refactored, and its dependency graph is still
-a tangled web. I hope we'll be working on that over the coming
-releases, but it will take a while to do.
-
- - The new top-level source directories are:
- - **src/core** -- Code necessary to actually perform or use onion routing.
- - **src/feature** -- Code used only by some onion routing
-configurations, or only for a special purpose.
- - **src/app** -- Top-level code to run, invoke, and configure the
-lower-level code
-
- - The new second-level source directories are:
- - **src/core/crypto** -- High-level cryptographic protocols used in Tor
- - **src/core/mainloop** -- Tor's event loop, connection-handling, and
-traffic-routing code.
- - **src/core/or** -- Parts related to handling onion routing itself
- - **src/core/proto** -- support for encoding and decoding different
-wire protocols
- - **src/feature/api** -- Support for making Tor embeddable
- - **src/feature/client** -- Functionality which only Tor clients need
- - **src/feature/control** -- Controller implementation
- - **src/feature/dirauth** -- Directory authority
- - **src/feature/dircache** -- Directory cache
- - **src/feature/dirclient** -- Directory client
- - **src/feature/dircommon** -- Shared code between the other directory modules
- - **src/feature/hibernate** -- Hibernating when Tor is out of bandwidth
-or shutting down
- - **src/feature/hs** -- v3 onion service implementation
- - **src/feature/hs_common** -- shared code between both onion service
-implementations
- - **src/feature/nodelist** -- storing and accessing the list of relays on
-the network.
- - **src/feature/relay** -- code that only relay servers and exit servers need.
- - **src/feature/rend** -- v2 onion service implementation
- - **src/feature/stats** -- statistics and history
- - **src/app/config** -- configuration and state for Tor
- - **src/app/main** -- Top-level functions to invoke the rest or Tor.
-
- * The `tor` executable is now built in **src/app/tor** rather than **src/or/tor**.
-
- * There are more static libraries than before that you need to build
-into your application if you want to embed Tor. Rather than
-maintaining this list yourself, I recommend that you run `make
-show-libs` to have Tor emit a list of what you need to link.
diff --git a/doc/include.am b/doc/include.am
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@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST+= doc/asciidoc-helper.sh \
doc/HACKING/README.1st.md \
doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md \
doc/HACKING/CodingStandardsRust.md \
- doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md \
doc/HACKING/Fuzzing.md \
doc/HACKING/GettingStarted.md \
doc/HACKING/GettingStartedRust.md \