An initial pass at updating `tokio-threadpool` to `std::future`. The
codebase and tests both now run using `std::future` but the wake
mechanism is not ideal. Follow up work will be required to improve on
this.
Refs: #1200
This patch adds a new crate: tokio-fs. This crate provides a wrapper
around `std` functionality that can only be performed using blocking
operations. This primarily includes filesystem operations, but it also
includes standard input, output, and error access as these streams
cannot be safely switched to non-blocking mode in a portable way.
These wrappers call the `std` functions from within a `blocking`
annotation which allows the runtime to compensate for the fact that the
thread will potentially remain blocked in a system call.
This patch adds a `blocking` to `tokio-threadpool`. This function serves
as a way to annotate sections of code that will perform blocking
operations. This informs the thread pool that an additional thread needs
to be spawned to replace the current thread, which will no longer be
able to process the work queue.
Steffen Butzer