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channel

Function channel 

Source
pub(crate) fn channel(
    cell_tx: Sender<AnyChanMsg, MpscSpec>,
    cell_rx: Receiver<AnyChanMsg, MpscSpec>,
) -> (CircuitRxSender, CircuitRxReceiver)
Expand description

Wrap the sender and receiver of an mq_queue channel into CircuitRxSender and CircuitRxReceiver.

The returned channel will ensure any DESTROY messages sent over the CircuitRxSender will be delivered by the CircuitRxReceiver immediately, ahead of any other messages that might already be queued, which will be discarded.

We are fine with the resulting data loss, because inbound DESTROY can be indicative of malicious activity on the circuit. We choose to err on the safe side, and free up the resources associated with such circuits as soon as possible. DESTROY messages are also sent by relays when they’re about to hibernate, and by clients once they’ve decided to stop using a circuit. In the latter case, the lack of an RELAY_COMMAND_END_ACK does mean that this prioritization can cause data loss (if the client closes the circuit immediately after END-ing a stream). However, this is a deficiency in the protocol, and not something we want to fix by implementing custom flushing logic in the reactor. See torspec#196 and the discussion in #2490.

Note: the underlying buffer of the mq_queue will only be freed once both the CircuitRxSender and CircuitRxReceiver are dropped; in other words, after a DESTROY cell has been obtained from the CircuitRxReceiver, via its Stream implementation