hg-stable: Changelog

py3: replace os.altsep with pycompat.altsep All the occurences of os.altsep are replaced with pycompat.altsep which returns bytes.

py3: have a bytes version of sys.platform sys.platform returns unicodes on Python 3. This patch adds up pycompat.sysplatform which returns bytes.

py3: have a bytes version of os.altsep os.altsep returns unicodes on Python 3. We need a bytes version hence added pycompat.altsep.

py3: make sure encoding.encoding is a bytes variable encoding.encoding returns unicodes when locale.getpreferredencoding() is used to get the preferred encoding. This patch fixes that.

chg: remove locks See the previous two patches for the reason. The advantage is a simplified code base and better throughput when starting multiple servers with multiple confighashes. The disadvantage is starting multiple servers in parallel with a single confighash will waste some CPU time, which is probably fine in common use-cases. This makes it easier to switch to relative paths to support long unix domain socket paths.

chg: start server at a unique address See the previous patch for motivation. Previously, the server is started at a globally shared address. This patch appends pid to the address so it becomes unique. Note: with Linux pid namespace, the address may be non-unique, but it does not affect correctness of chg - chg client will receive an redirection and that's it.

chgserver: truncate base address at "." for hash address Previously, the hash address is just appending "-$HASH" to base address. This patch makes it truncate the basename address at "." before appending "-$HASH". This makes it possible to spawn new servers in a racy situation and the client could be sure the server it connects is the new server just spawned. This is a step towards removing the lock. One of the functionalities of the lock is to make sure the connect will connect to a server it just created: 1. start server --address foo 2. connect to foo # wish "foo" is the server just started With this change, the client could do: 1. start server --address foo.tmp$PID 2. connect to foo.tmp$PID # is the server just started (note: if it is not, it does not affect correctness - linux pid namespace is not a concern here) 3. rename foo.tmp$PID to foo Another functionality of the lock is to avoid starting multiple servers with a same confighash in parallel. But that also prevents starting multiple servers with different confighashes in parallel.