worker: rewrite error handling so os._exit covers all cases
Previously the worker error handling is like:
pid = os.fork() --+
if pid == 0: |
.... | problematic
.... --+
try: --+
.... | worker error handling
--+
If a signal arrives when Python is executing the "problematic" lines, an
external error handling (dispatch.py) will take over the control flow and
it's no longer guaranteed "os._exit" is called (see
86cd09bc13ba for why it
is necessary).
This patch rewrites the error handling so it covers all possible code paths
for a worker even during fork.
Note: "os.getpid() == parentpid" is used to test if the process is parent or
not intentionally, instead of checking "pid", because "pid = os.fork()" may
be not atomic - it's possible that that a signal hits the worker before the
assignment completes [1]. The newly added test replaces "os.fork" to
exercise that extreme case.
[1]: CPython compiles "pid = os.fork()" to 2 byte codes: "CALL_FUNCTION" and
"STORE_FAST", so it's probably not atomic:
def f():
pid = os.fork()
dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (os)
3 LOAD_ATTR 1 (fork)
6 CALL_FUNCTION 0
9 STORE_FAST 0 (pid)
12 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
15 RETURN_VALUE
os = <unloaded module 'os'>
os.system = <built-in function system>
os = <module 'os' from '?'>
util = <unloaded module 'util'>
util.system = <function system at 0x?>
util = <module 'mercurial.util' from '?'>
util.system = <function system at 0x?>
hgweb = <unloaded module 'hgweb'>
hgweb_mod = <unloaded module 'hgweb_mod'>
hgweb = <module 'mercurial.hgweb' from '?'>
fred = <unloaded module 're'>
re = <unloaded module 'sys'>
fred = <unloaded module 're'>
fred.sub = <function sub at 0x?>
fred = <proxied module 're'>
re = <unloaded module 'sys'>
re.stderr = <open file '<whatever>', mode 'w' at 0x?>
re = <proxied module 'sys'>
contextlib = <unloaded module 'contextlib'>
contextlib.unknownattr = ImportError: cannot import name unknownattr
__import__('contextlib', ..., ['unknownattr']) = <module 'contextlib' from '?'>
hasattr(contextlibimp, 'unknownattr') = False
node = <module 'mercurial.node' from '?'>