This is spun out of discussion from #608. The general idea here is that similar to waitUntil on the web platform tasks could have an opt-in mechanism to provide a future<_> to the host and say "please consider me alive until this is resolved". This could affect behavior on the host of when an instance or store is shut down. For example using this API could keep wasi:cli/run alive longer or maybe it could keep a wasi:http/service still running.
This is related to #611 insofar as it has to do with component teardown/shutdown from a host's perspective, and this is ideally a bit more cooperative than "host kills guest" unconditionally.
This is spun out of discussion from #608. The general idea here is that similar to
waitUntilon the web platform tasks could have an opt-in mechanism to provide afuture<_>to the host and say "please consider me alive until this is resolved". This could affect behavior on the host of when an instance or store is shut down. For example using this API could keepwasi:cli/runalive longer or maybe it could keep awasi:http/servicestill running.This is related to #611 insofar as it has to do with component teardown/shutdown from a host's perspective, and this is ideally a bit more cooperative than "host kills guest" unconditionally.