Standardize error messages, formatting, and code style. Refine --help text for consistency. Update comments for clarity and tone alignment.

src/atomic.rs

@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ pub fn write(path: &Path, contents: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<()>
         path.extension().and_then(|e| e.to_str()).unwrap_or(""),
         std::process::id()
     ));
+
     {
         let mut f = std::fs::File::create(&tmp)?;
         f.write_all(contents)?;
         f.sync_all()?;
     }
+
     std::fs::rename(&tmp, path)
 }

src/cli.rs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pub struct Cli {
 
 #[derive(Subcommand)]
 pub enum Commands {
-    /// Save a new forward profile (doesn't open it).
+    /// Save a new forward profile.
     #[command(visible_alias = "create", visible_alias = "new")]
     Add(AddArgs),
 
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ pub enum Commands {
 /// struct (`#[command(flatten)]`ed into both) so the two can never drift.
 #[derive(Args, Default)]
 pub struct MappingArgs {
-    /// Local forward: your machine -> remote.
+    /// Local forward (current machine -> remote machine).
     #[arg(short, long, value_name = "[BIND:]PORT:HOST:PORT")]
     pub local: Option<String>,
 
-    /// Remote forward: remote -> your machine.
+    /// Remote forward (remote machine -> current machine).
     #[arg(short, long, value_name = "[BIND:]PORT:HOST:PORT")]
     pub remote: Option<String>,
 
@@ -78,23 +78,23 @@ pub struct MappingArgs {
     #[arg(short, long, value_name = "PATH")]
     pub identity: Option<String>,
 
-    /// SSH port on the final target only.
+    /// SSH port of the final target.
     #[arg(short, long, value_name = "PORT")]
     pub port: Option<u16>,
 
-    /// Auto-reconnect on drop.
+    /// Auto-reconnect on connection drop.
     #[arg(long, num_args = 0..=1, default_missing_value = "true", value_name = "BOOL")]
     pub reconnect: Option<bool>,
 
-    /// Base delay between reconnect attempts, in seconds.
+    /// Base delay between reconnection attempts, in seconds.
     #[arg(long = "retry-interval", value_name = "SECONDS")]
     pub retry_interval: Option<u32>,
 
-    /// Cap on the doubling reconnect delay, in seconds.
+    /// Cap on the doubling reconnection delay, in seconds.
     #[arg(long = "backoff-max", value_name = "SECONDS")]
     pub backoff_max: Option<u32>,
 
-    /// ServerAliveInterval, in seconds.
+    /// SSH ServerAliveInterval, in seconds\.
     #[arg(long, value_name = "SECONDS")]
     pub keepalive: Option<u32>,
 }

src/error.rs

@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ pub enum PortholeError {
     #[error("only one of -l/--local, -r/--remote, -d/--dynamic may be given")]
     MultipleMappingKinds,
 
-    #[error("invalid forward spec '{0}': expected [bind:]port:host:hostport (or [bind:]port for -d)")]
+    #[error("invalid forward spec '{0}': expected [BIND:]PORT:HOST:PORT (or [BIND:]PORT for -d)")]
     InvalidMapping(String),
 
-    #[error("invalid --via hop '{0}': expected [user@]host[:port]")]
+    #[error("invalid --via hop '{0}': expected [USER@]HOST[:PORT]")]
     InvalidVia(String),
 
-    #[error("--via is required: at least one hop (its last entry is the ssh connection target)")]
+    #[error("--via is required: at least one hop (connection target)")]
     NoViaHosts,
 
     #[error("nothing to do: {0}")]

src/ssh.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pub fn build(profile: &Profile) -> Command {
     let mut cmd = Command::new("ssh");
     cmd.stdin(Stdio::null()).stdout(Stdio::piped()).stderr(Stdio::piped());
 
-    // Forced flags - see spec §3.1 for why each of these is non-negotiable.
+    // Forced flags, see spec §3.1.
     cmd.args([
         "-o",
         "BatchMode=yes",
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use crate::profile::{Kind, ProfileEdits};
 
-    fn profile_with(via: Vec<&str>) -> Profile {
+    fn profile_with(via: Vec<&str>) -> Profile
+    {
         Profile::new(
             "t".into(),
             &ProfileEdits {

src/supervisor.rs

@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ const LOG_ROTATE_BYTES: u64 = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 static SHUTDOWN: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(false);
 
-extern "C" fn handle_sigterm(_sig: libc::c_int) {
+extern "C" fn handle_sigterm(_sig: libc::c_int) { SHUTDOWN.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst); }
-    SHUTDOWN.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
-}
 
 /// Traps SIGTERM and SIGINT into a flag instead of the default
 /// terminate-immediately behavior. This is how `close` (SIGTERM) and
@@ -64,10 +62,10 @@ pub fn run(name: &str) -> Result<()> {
 
     let profile = profile::load(name)?;
 
-    // Holding this for our entire lifetime is what makes "is <name>
+    // Holding this for our entire lifetime is what makes
-    // already open" a reliable, race-free check for `open` (spec §2.3/§3).
+    // for a reliable, race-free check for `open`.
     let Some(_lock) = Lock::try_acquire(name)? else {
-        return Ok(()); // another supervisor beat us to it; nothing to do
+        return Ok(()); // another supervisor; nothing to do
     };
 
     let pid      = std::process::id() as i32;
@@ -77,33 +75,40 @@ pub fn run(name: &str) -> Result<()> {
     let once       = std::env::var_os("PORTHOLE_SUPERVISE_ONCE").is_some();
     let base_delay = profile.retry_interval.max(1) as u64;
     let max_delay  = (profile.backoff_max as u64).max(base_delay);
-    let mut delay = base_delay;
+
+    let mut delay: u64               = base_delay;
     let mut unrecognized_streak: u32 = 0;
 
-    loop {
+    loop
+    {
         let attempt_started = timefmt::now();
-        match run_ssh_once(name, &profile, &mut inst) {
+
+        match run_ssh_once(name, &profile, &mut inst)
+        {
             Outcome::ShutdownRequested => {
                 instance::delete(name)?;
                 return Ok(());
             }
-            Outcome::Failed { class, message } => {
+            Outcome::Failed { class, message } =>
+            {
                 let uptime = timefmt::now() - attempt_started;
+
                 if uptime >= STABLE_THRESHOLD_SECS {
                     delay = base_delay;
                     unrecognized_streak = 0;
                 }
+
                 match class {
                     Class::Unrecognized   => unrecognized_streak += 1,
                     Class::KnownTransient => unrecognized_streak = 0,
                     Class::Fatal          => {}
                 }
 
-                inst.last_error =
+                inst.last_error = Some(if message.is_empty() { "ssh exited unexpectedly (no output captured)".to_string() } else { message });
-                    Some(if message.is_empty() { "ssh exited unexpectedly (no output captured)".to_string() } else { message });
 
                 let fatal   = matches!(class, Class::Fatal);
                 let give_up = fatal || !profile.reconnect || once || unrecognized_streak > MAX_UNRECOGNIZED_STREAK;
+
                 if give_up {
                     inst.state = State::Error;
                     instance::save(&inst)?;
@@ -120,6 +125,7 @@ pub fn run(name: &str) -> Result<()> {
                     instance::delete(name)?;
                     return Ok(());
                 }
+
                 delay = (delay * 2).min(max_delay);
             }
         }
@@ -129,14 +135,17 @@ pub fn run(name: &str) -> Result<()> {
 /// Sleeps for `dur`, polling `SHUTDOWN` periodically so a `close` that
 /// arrives during a reconnect backoff window is honored promptly instead
 /// of waiting out the full delay. Returns `true` if shutdown was requested.
-fn sleep_or_shutdown(dur: Duration) -> bool {
+fn sleep_or_shutdown(dur: Duration) -> bool
+{
     let deadline = Instant::now() + dur;
+
     while Instant::now() < deadline {
         if SHUTDOWN.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
             return true;
         }
         std::thread::sleep(POLL_INTERVAL.min(dur));
     }
+
     SHUTDOWN.load(Ordering::SeqCst)
 }
 
@@ -146,7 +155,8 @@ fn sleep_or_shutdown(dur: Duration) -> bool {
 /// without parsing `-v` debug output; a real failure exits near-instantly
 /// under `ExitOnForwardFailure=yes` (§3.1), so staying alive past the grace
 /// window is used as a proxy for connected.
-fn run_ssh_once(name: &str, profile: &Profile, inst: &mut Instance) -> Outcome {
+fn run_ssh_once(name: &str, profile: &Profile, inst: &mut Instance) -> Outcome
+{
     rotate_log_if_large(name);
 
     let mut cmd = ssh::build(profile);
@@ -162,17 +172,22 @@ fn run_ssh_once(name: &str, profile: &Profile, inst: &mut Instance) -> Outcome {
     let grace_deadline = Instant::now() + CONNECT_GRACE;
     let mut marked_up  = false;
 
-    loop {
+    loop
+    {
         if SHUTDOWN.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
             let _ = child.kill();
             let _ = child.wait();
             join_all([stdout_thread, stderr_thread]);
             return Outcome::ShutdownRequested;
         }
-        match child.try_wait() {
+
+        match child.try_wait()
+        {
             Ok(Some(_status)) => break,
-            Ok(None) => {
+            Ok(None)          =>
-                if !marked_up && Instant::now() >= grace_deadline {
+            {
+                if !marked_up && Instant::now() >= grace_deadline
+                {
                     marked_up         = true;
                     inst.state        = State::Up;
                     inst.connected_at = Some(timefmt::now());
@@ -187,7 +202,9 @@ fn run_ssh_once(name: &str, profile: &Profile, inst: &mut Instance) -> Outcome {
     join_all([stdout_thread, stderr_thread]);
 
     let tail = stderr_tail.lock().map(|s| s.clone()).unwrap_or_default();
+
     let (class, message) = classify(&tail);
+
     Outcome::Failed { class, message }
 }
 
@@ -201,7 +218,8 @@ fn join_all<const N: usize>(handles: [Option<JoinHandle<()>>; N]) {
 /// the reconnect loop outright; known-transient patterns retry without
 /// counting toward the unrecognized-failure escalation; anything else
 /// still retries, but does count toward it.
-fn classify(stderr_tail: &str) -> (Class, String) {
+fn classify(stderr_tail: &str) -> (Class, String)
+{
     const FATAL: &[&str]           = &["Permission denied", "Host key verification failed", "bind: Address already in use"];
     const KNOWN_TRANSIENT: &[&str] = &[
         "Connection refused",
@@ -213,17 +231,15 @@ fn classify(stderr_tail: &str) -> (Class, String) {
 
     let message = stderr_tail.lines().rev().find(|l| !l.trim().is_empty()).unwrap_or("").trim().to_string();
 
-    if FATAL.iter().any(|p| stderr_tail.contains(p)) {
+    if      FATAL.iter().any(|p| stderr_tail.contains(p))           { (Class::Fatal, message) }
-        (Class::Fatal, message)
+    else if KNOWN_TRANSIENT.iter().any(|p| stderr_tail.contains(p)) { (Class::KnownTransient, message) }
-    } else if KNOWN_TRANSIENT.iter().any(|p| stderr_tail.contains(p)) {
+    else                                                            { (Class::Unrecognized, message) }
-        (Class::KnownTransient, message)
-    } else {
-        (Class::Unrecognized, message)
-    }
 }
 
-fn rotate_log_if_large(name: &str) {
+fn rotate_log_if_large(name: &str)
+{
     let path = instance::log_path(name);
+
     if let Ok(meta) = std::fs::metadata(&path) {
         if meta.len() > LOG_ROTATE_BYTES {
             let _ = std::fs::rename(&path, path.with_extension("log.1"));
@@ -237,8 +253,10 @@ fn append_log(name: &str, line: &str) {
     }
 }
 
-fn spawn_log_drain(name: &str, out: std::process::ChildStdout) -> JoinHandle<()> {
+fn spawn_log_drain(name: &str, out: std::process::ChildStdout) -> JoinHandle<()>
+{
     let name = name.to_string();
+
     std::thread::spawn(move || {
         for line in BufReader::new(out).lines().map_while(std::result::Result::ok) {
             append_log(&name, &line);
@@ -246,11 +264,15 @@ fn spawn_log_drain(name: &str, out: std::process::ChildStdout) -> JoinHandle<()>
     })
 }
 
-fn spawn_stderr_drain(name: &str, err: std::process::ChildStderr, tail: Arc<Mutex<String>>) -> JoinHandle<()> {
+fn spawn_stderr_drain(name: &str, err: std::process::ChildStderr, tail: Arc<Mutex<String>>) -> JoinHandle<()>
+{
     let name = name.to_string();
+
     std::thread::spawn(move || {
-        for line in BufReader::new(err).lines().map_while(std::result::Result::ok) {
+        for line in BufReader::new(err).lines().map_while(std::result::Result::ok)
+        {
             append_log(&name, &line);
+
             if let Ok(mut t) = tail.lock() {
                 if !t.is_empty() {
                     t.push('\n');

src/timefmt.rs

@@ -13,40 +13,43 @@ pub fn now() -> i64 {
 /// (public domain, http://howardhinnant.github.io/date_algorithms.html) -
 /// avoids pulling in a whole calendar/timezone crate for what's otherwise a
 /// handful of integer operations.
-pub fn fmt_timestamp(unix_secs: i64) -> String {
+pub fn fmt_timestamp(unix_secs: i64) -> String
+{
     let days        = unix_secs.div_euclid(86_400);
     let secs_of_day = unix_secs.rem_euclid(86_400);
     let (h, m, s)   = (secs_of_day / 3600, (secs_of_day / 60) % 60, secs_of_day % 60);
 
     let z   = days + 719_468;
     let era = if z >= 0 { z } else { z - 146_096 } / 146_097;
+
     let doe = (z - era * 146_097) as i64;                            // [0, 146096]
     let yoe = (doe - doe / 1460 + doe / 36524 - doe / 146096) / 365; // [0, 399]
+
     let y = yoe + era * 400;
+
     let doy = doe - (365 * yoe + yoe / 4 - yoe / 100); // [0, 365]
     let mp  = (5 * doy + 2) / 153;                     // [0, 11]
     let d   = doy - (153 * mp + 2) / 5 + 1;            // [1, 31]
     let m_num = if mp < 10 { mp + 3 } else { mp - 9 }; // [1, 12]
+
     let y = if m_num <= 2 { y + 1 } else { y };
 
     format!("{y:04}-{m_num:02}-{d:02} {h:02}:{m:02}:{s:02} UTC")
 }
 
 /// Compact `1d 02h 03m 04s`-style duration, dropping leading zero units.
-pub fn fmt_duration(secs: i64) -> String {
+pub fn fmt_duration(secs: i64) -> String
+{
     let secs     = secs.max(0);
     let (d, rem) = (secs / 86_400, secs % 86_400);
     let (h, rem) = (rem / 3600, rem % 3600);
     let (m, s)   = (rem / 60, rem % 60);
 
-    if d > 0 {
+    match (d, h, m) {
-        format!("{d}d {h:02}h {m:02}m {s:02}s")
+        (d, _, _) if d > 0 => format!("{d}d {h:02}h {m:02}m {s:02}s"),
-    } else if h > 0 {
+        (_, h, _) if h > 0 => format!("{h}h {m:02}m {s:02}s"),
-        format!("{h}h {m:02}m {s:02}s")
+        (_, _, m) if m > 0 => format!("{m}m {s:02}s"),
-    } else if m > 0 {
+        _                  => format!("{s}s"),
-        format!("{m}m {s:02}s")
-    } else {
-        format!("{s}s")
     }
 }
 

src/ui.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-//! Colorized status output, honoring `NO_COLOR` and terminal detection.
+//! Colorized status output, honouring `NO_COLOR` and terminal detection.
 
 use std::io::IsTerminal;
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
-fn color_enabled() -> bool {
+fn color_enabled() -> bool 
+{
     static ENABLED: OnceLock<bool> = OnceLock::new();
     *ENABLED.get_or_init(|| {
         std::env::var_os("NO_COLOR").is_none()
@@ -13,46 +14,19 @@ fn color_enabled() -> bool {
     })
 }
 
-fn paint(code: &str, s: &str) -> String {
+fn paint(code: &str, s: &str) -> String 
-    if color_enabled() {
+{
-        format!("\x1b[{code}m{s}\x1b[0m")
+    if color_enabled() { format!("\x1b[{code}m{s}\x1b[0m") } 
-    } else {
+    else               { s.to_string() }
-        s.to_string()
-    }
 }
 
-pub fn red(s: &str) -> String {
+pub fn    red(s: &str) -> String { paint("31", s) }
-    paint("31", s)
+pub fn yellow(s: &str) -> String { paint("33", s) }
-}
+pub fn  green(s: &str) -> String { paint("32", s) }
+pub fn   blue(s: &str) -> String { paint("34", s) }
+pub fn   cyan(s: &str) -> String { paint("36", s) }
 
-pub fn yellow(s: &str) -> String {
+pub fn  err(msg: &str) { eprintln!("{}", red(&format!("Error: {msg}"))); }
-    paint("33", s)
+pub fn warn(msg: &str) { eprintln!("{}", yellow(&format!("Warning: {msg}"))); }
-}
+pub fn info(msg: &str) { println!("{}", blue(msg)); }
-
+pub fn   ok(msg: &str) { println!("{}", green(msg)); }
-pub fn green(s: &str) -> String {
-    paint("32", s)
-}
-
-pub fn blue(s: &str) -> String {
-    paint("34", s)
-}
-
-pub fn cyan(s: &str) -> String {
-    paint("36", s)
-}
-
-pub fn err(msg: &str) {
-    eprintln!("{}", red(&format!("Error: {msg}")));
-}
-
-pub fn warn(msg: &str) {
-    eprintln!("{}", yellow(&format!("Warning: {msg}")));
-}
-
-pub fn info(msg: &str) {
-    println!("{}", blue(msg));
-}
-
-pub fn ok(msg: &str) {
-    println!("{}", green(msg));
-}