commandserver: add new forking server implemented without using SocketServer
SocketServer.ForkingMixIn of Python 2.x has a couple of issues, such as:
- race condition that leads to 100% CPU usage (Python 2.6)
https://bugs.python.org/
issue21491
- can't wait for children belonging to different process groups (Python 2.6)
- leaves at least one zombie process (Python 2.6, 2.7)
https://bugs.python.org/
issue11109
The first two are critical because we do setpgid(0, 0) in child process to
isolate terminal signals. The last one isn't, but ForkingMixIn seems to be
doing silly. So there are two choices:
a) backport and maintain SocketServer until we can drop support for Python 2.x
b) replace SocketServer by simpler one and eliminate glue codes
I chose (b) because it's great time for getting rid of utterly complicated
SocketServer stuff, and preparing for future move towards prefork service.
New unixforkingservice is implemented loosely based on chg
531f8ef64be6. It
is monolithic but much simpler than SocketServer. unixservicehandler provides
customizing points for chg, and it will be shared with future prefork service.
Old unixservice class is still used by chgserver. It will be removed later.
Thanks to Jun Wu for investigating these issues.
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ touch empty1
$ hg add empty1
$ hg commit -m 'add empty1'
$ touch empty2
$ hg add empty2
$ hg commit -m 'add empty2'
$ hg up -C 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch empty3
$ hg add empty3
$ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
created new head
$ hg heads
changeset: 2:a1cb177e0d44
tag: tip
parent: 0:1e1d9c4e5b64
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add empty3
changeset: 1:097d2b0e17f6
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add empty2
$ hg merge 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:
$ hg status
M empty2
$ hg commit -m merge
$ hg manifest --debug tip
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty1
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty2
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty3
$ cd ..