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diff --git a/doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md b/doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md deleted file mode 100644 index d387018f9b..0000000000 --- a/doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,123 +0,0 @@ -# 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 index 8651f845eb..5e0c90b0cd 100644 --- a/doc/include.am +++ b/doc/include.am @@ -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 \ diff --git a/src/app/app.md b/src/app/app.md index 138e75b127..298bde75f5 100644 --- a/src/app/app.md +++ b/src/app/app.md @@ -4,3 +4,8 @@ The "app" directory has Tor's main entry point and configuration logic, and is responsible for initializing and managing the other modules in Tor. + +The modules in "app" are: + + - \refdir{app/config} -- configuration and state for Tor + - \refdir{app/main} -- Top-level functions to invoke the rest or Tor. diff --git a/src/feature/feature.md b/src/feature/feature.md index acc3487e55..d9f7bd5c0e 100644 --- a/src/feature/feature.md +++ b/src/feature/feature.md @@ -5,3 +5,26 @@ The "feature" directory has modules that Tor uses only for a particular role or service, such as maintaining/using an onion service, operating as a relay or a client, or being a directory authority. +Current subdirectories are: + + - \refdir{feature/api} -- Support for making Tor embeddable + - \refdir{feature/client} -- Functionality which only Tor clients need + - \refdir{feature/control} -- Controller implementation + - \refdir{feature/dirauth} -- Directory authority + - \refdir{feature/dircache} -- Directory cache + - \refdir{feature/dirclient} -- Directory client + - \refdir{feature/dircommon} -- Shared code between the other directory modules + - \refdir{feature/dirparse} -- Directory parsing code. + - \refdir{feature/hibernate} -- Hibernating when Tor is out of bandwidth + or shutting down + - \refdir{feature/hs} -- v3 onion service implementation + - \refdir{feature/hs_common} -- shared code between both onion service + implementations + - \refdir{feature/keymgt} -- shared code for key management between + relays and onion services. + - \refdir{feature/nodelist} -- storing and accessing the list of relays on + the network. + - \refdir{feature/relay} -- code that only relay servers and exit servers + need. + - \refdir{feature/rend} -- v2 onion service implementation + - \refdir{feature/stats} -- statistics and history |