annotate contrib/chg/procutil.h @ 45095:8e04607023e5

procutil: ensure that procutil.std{out,err}.write() writes all bytes

Python 3 offers different kind of streams and it’s not guaranteed for all of
them that calling write() writes all bytes.

When Python is started in unbuffered mode, sys.std{out,err}.buffer are
instances of io.FileIO, whose write() can write less bytes for
platform-specific reasons (e.g. Linux has a 0x7ffff000 bytes maximum and could
write less if interrupted by a signal; when writing to Windows consoles, it’s
limited to 32767 bytes to avoid the "not enough space" error). This can lead to
silent loss of data, both when using sys.std{out,err}.buffer (which may in fact
not be a buffered stream) and when using the text streams sys.std{out,err}
(I’ve created a CPython bug report for that:
https://bugs.python.org/issue41221).

Python may fix the problem at some point. For now, we implement our own wrapper
for procutil.std{out,err} that calls the raw stream’s write() method until all
bytes have been written. We don’t use sys.std{out,err} for larger writes, so I
think it’s not worth the effort to patch them.

/*
 * Utilities about process handling - signal and subprocess (ex. pager)
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2011 Yuya Nishihara <[e-mail]>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 * GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
 */

#ifndef PROCUTIL_H_
#define PROCUTIL_H_

#include <unistd.h>

void restoresignalhandler(void);
void setupsignalhandler(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid);

pid_t setuppager(const char *pagercmd, const char *envp[]);
void waitpager(void);

#endif /* PROCUTIL_H_ */