Module task

Tools for working with tasks.

This module contains:

• Spawn, a trait for spawning new tasks.
• [Context], a context of an asynchronous task, including a handle for waking up the task.
• [Waker], a handle for waking up a task.

The remaining types and traits in the module are used for implementing executors or dealing with synchronization issues around task wakeup.

Re-exports

• pub use core::task::Context;
• pub use core::task::Poll;
• pub use core::task::RawWaker;
• pub use core::task::RawWakerVTable;
• pub use core::task::Waker;

Structs

• AtomicWaker
  A synchronization primitive for task wakeup.
• FutureObj
  A custom trait object for polling futures, roughly akin to Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + Send + 'a>.
• LocalFutureObj
  A custom trait object for polling futures, roughly akin to Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + 'a>.
• SpawnError
  An error that occurred during spawning.
• WakerRef
  A [Waker] that is only valid for a given lifetime.

Traits

• ArcWake
  A way of waking up a specific task.
• LocalSpawn
  The LocalSpawn is similar to Spawn, but allows spawning futures that don’t implement Send.
• LocalSpawnExt
  Extension trait for LocalSpawn.
• Spawn
  The Spawn trait allows for pushing futures onto an executor that will run them to completion.
• SpawnExt
  Extension trait for Spawn.
• UnsafeFutureObj
  A custom implementation of a future trait object for FutureObj, providing a vtable with drop support.

Functions

• noop_waker
  Create a new [Waker] which does nothing when wake() is called on it.
• noop_waker_ref
  Get a static reference to a [Waker] which does nothing when wake() is called on it.
• waker
  Creates a [Waker] from an Arc<impl ArcWake>.
• waker_ref
  Creates a reference to a [Waker] from a reference to Arc<impl ArcWake>.