hg-stable: Changelog

debugcommands: allow sending of simple commands with debugwireproto Previously, we only had support for low-level "raw" operations. A goal of `hg debugwireproto` is to allow easily performing higher-level primitives, such as sending a wire protocol command and reading its response. We implement a "command" action that does just this. Currently, we only support simple commands (those without payloads). We have basic support for sending command arguments. We don't yet support sending dictionary arguments. This will be implemented later. To prove it works, we add tests to test-ssh-proto.t that send some "listkeys" commands. Note: we don't observe/report os.read() events because these may not be deterministic. We instead observe/report the read() and readline() operations on the bufferedinputpipe. These *should* be deterministic. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2406

wireproto: sort response to listkeys The listkeys protocol is defined to produce a dictionary. pushkey.decodekeys() uses a plain dict to hold the decoded results of the wire protocol response. So order should not matter. Upcoming tests will verify low-level output of wire protocol commands and the non-deterministic emitting of listkeys was causing intermittent failures. So we make the output of listkeys deterministic. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2405

debugcommands: add debugwireproto command We currently don't have a low-level mechanism for sending arbitrary wire protocol commands. Having a generic and robust mechanism for sending wire protocol commands, examining wire data, etc would make it vastly easier to test the wire protocol and debug server operation. This is a problem I've wanted a solution for numerous times, especially recently as I've been hacking on a new version of the wire protocol. This commit establishes a `hg debugwireproto` command for sending data to a peer. The command invents a mini language for specifying actions to take. This will enable a lot of flexibility for issuing commands and testing variations for how commands are sent. Right now, we only support low-level raw sends and receives. These are probably the least valuable commands to intended users of this command. But they are the most useful commands to implement to bootstrap the feature (I've chosen to reimplement test-ssh-proto.t using this command to prove its usefulness). My eventual goal of `hg debugwireproto` is to allow calling wire protocol commands with a human-friendly interface. Essentially, people can type in a command name and arguments and `hg debugwireproto` will figure out how to send that on the wire. I'd love to eventually be able to save the server's raw response to a file. This would allow us to e.g. call "getbundle" wire protocol commands easily. test-ssh-proto.t has been updated to use the new command in lieu of piping directly to a server process. As part of the transition, test behavior improved. Before, we piped all request data to the server at once. Now, we have explicit control over the ordering of operations. e.g. we can send one command, receive its response, then send another command. This will allow us to more robustly test race conditions, buffering behavior, etc. There were some subtle changes in test behavior. For example, previous behavior would often send trailing newlines to the server. The new mechanism doesn't treat literal newlines specially and requires newlines be escaped in the payload. Because the new logging code is very low level, it is easy to introduce race conditions in tests. For example, the number of bytes returned by a read() may vary depending on load. This is why tests make heavy use of "readline" for consuming data: the result of that operation should be deterministic and not subject to race conditions. There are still some uses of "readavailable." However, those are only for reading from stderr. I was able to reproduce timing issues with my system under load when using "readavailable" globally. But if I "readline" to grab stdout, "readavailable" appears to work deterministically for stderr. I think this is because the server writes to stderr first. As long as the OS delivers writes to pipes in the same order they were made, this should work. If there are timing issues, we can introduce a mechanism to readline from stderr. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2392

debugcommands: add debugserve command `hg serve --stdio` requires the exact command argument form `hg -R <path> serve --stdio` for security reasons. An upcoming commit will need to start an SSH protocol server process with custom settings. This commit creates a `hg debugserve` command for starting servers with custom options. There are no security restrictions and we can add options here that aren't appropriate for built-in commands. We currently only support starting an SSH protocol server using the process's stdio file descriptors. The server supports logging its I/O activity to a file descriptor number passed as a command argument. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2464

wireprotoserver: support logging SSH server I/O to a file descriptor We will soon introduce a debug command and tests for low-level I/O behavior of the SSH wire protocol. To facilitate this, we need to instrument the SSH server so it can log its I/O as events occur. We teach the SSH server to convert its stdout and stderr file objects into file object proxies. We configure these proxies to log to a file descriptor whose file number is specified via a config option. The idea is to have a future debug command start the SSH server process with access to an extra file descriptor that can be used by the server process to log I/O. Monitoring only the write I/O will be more robust than monitoring both writes and reads from the client process because read operations are not deterministic. This will matter for tests that capture raw I/O activity. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2463