tests/svn-safe-append.py

util: add a popoldest() method to lrucachedict

This allows consumers to prune the oldest item from the cache. This
could be useful for e.g. a consumer that wishes for the size of
items tracked by the cache to remain under a high water mark.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4501

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import

__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""

import os
import stat
import sys

text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]

f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
    before = os.fstat(f.fileno())[stat.ST_MTIME]
    f.write(text)
    f.write("\n")
finally:
    f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname)[stat.ST_MTIME]
while now == before:
    t = now + inc
    inc += 1
    os.utime(fname, (t, t))
    now = os.stat(fname)[stat.ST_MTIME]