hgext/censor.py

procutil: always waiting on child processes to prevent zombies with 'hg serve'

When runbgcommand is invoked by an extension with ensurestart=False, we never
called waitpid - which is fine in most cases, except if that's happening on a
command server (e.g. chg), in which case the child defunct process will just
sit there for as long as the server is running.

The actual semantics of SIGCHLD signal handling is a lot more complex than
it seems, and the POSIX standard *seems* to read that it's ignored by default
and everything would just work without the waitpid if we're not listening for
it, but the truth is that it's only ignored if we *explicitly* set it to
SIG_IGN. We further cannot set it to SIG_IGN or to a catch-all handler across
all of 'hg serve', because Python's suprocess.Popen relies on that signal,
and a few specific parts of hg also set custom handlers, so instead we wait
for specific PIDs in dedicated threads.

I did a poor-man's benchmark of the thread creation and it seems to take
about 1ms, which is way better than the 20+ms from ensurestart=True.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8497

# Copyright (C) 2015 - Mike Edgar <[e-mail]>
#
# This extension enables removal of file content at a given revision,
# rewriting the data/metadata of successive revisions to preserve revision log
# integrity.

"""erase file content at a given revision

The censor command instructs Mercurial to erase all content of a file at a given
revision *without updating the changeset hash.* This allows existing history to
remain valid while preventing future clones/pulls from receiving the erased
data.

Typical uses for censor are due to security or legal requirements, including::

 * Passwords, private keys, cryptographic material
 * Licensed data/code/libraries for which the license has expired
 * Personally Identifiable Information or other private data

Censored nodes can interrupt mercurial's typical operation whenever the excised
data needs to be materialized. Some commands, like ``hg cat``/``hg revert``,
simply fail when asked to produce censored data. Others, like ``hg verify`` and
``hg update``, must be capable of tolerating censored data to continue to
function in a meaningful way. Such commands only tolerate censored file
revisions if they are allowed by the "censor.policy=ignore" config option.

A few informative commands such as ``hg grep`` will unconditionally
ignore censored data and merely report that it was encountered.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial.i18n import _
from mercurial.node import short

from mercurial import (
    error,
    registrar,
    scmutil,
)

cmdtable = {}
command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = b'ships-with-hg-core'


@command(
    b'censor',
    [
        (
            b'r',
            b'rev',
            b'',
            _(b'censor file from specified revision'),
            _(b'REV'),
        ),
        (b't', b'tombstone', b'', _(b'replacement tombstone data'), _(b'TEXT')),
    ],
    _(b'-r REV [-t TEXT] [FILE]'),
    helpcategory=command.CATEGORY_MAINTENANCE,
)
def censor(ui, repo, path, rev=b'', tombstone=b'', **opts):
    with repo.wlock(), repo.lock():
        return _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev, tombstone, **opts)


def _docensor(ui, repo, path, rev=b'', tombstone=b'', **opts):
    if not path:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'must specify file path to censor'))
    if not rev:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'must specify revision to censor'))

    wctx = repo[None]

    m = scmutil.match(wctx, (path,))
    if m.anypats() or len(m.files()) != 1:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'can only specify an explicit filename'))
    path = m.files()[0]
    flog = repo.file(path)
    if not len(flog):
        raise error.Abort(_(b'cannot censor file with no history'))

    rev = scmutil.revsingle(repo, rev, rev).rev()
    try:
        ctx = repo[rev]
    except KeyError:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'invalid revision identifier %s') % rev)

    try:
        fctx = ctx.filectx(path)
    except error.LookupError:
        raise error.Abort(_(b'file does not exist at revision %s') % rev)

    fnode = fctx.filenode()
    heads = []
    for headnode in repo.heads():
        hc = repo[headnode]
        if path in hc and hc.filenode(path) == fnode:
            heads.append(hc)
    if heads:
        headlist = b', '.join([short(c.node()) for c in heads])
        raise error.Abort(
            _(b'cannot censor file in heads (%s)') % headlist,
            hint=_(b'clean/delete and commit first'),
        )

    wp = wctx.parents()
    if ctx.node() in [p.node() for p in wp]:
        raise error.Abort(
            _(b'cannot censor working directory'),
            hint=_(b'clean/delete/update first'),
        )

    with repo.transaction(b'censor') as tr:
        flog.censorrevision(tr, fnode, tombstone=tombstone)