worker: avoid potential partial write of pickled data
Previously, the code wrote the pickled data using os.write(). However,
os.write() can write less bytes than passed to it. To trigger the problem, the
pickled data had to be larger than
2147479552 bytes on my system.
Instead, open a file object and pass it to pickle.dump(). This also has the
advantage that it doesn’t buffer the whole pickled data in memory.
Note that the opened file must be buffered because pickle doesn’t support
unbuffered streams because unbuffered streams’ write() method might write less
bytes than passed to it (like os.write()) but pickle.dump() relies on that all
bytes are written (see https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/93050).
The side effect of using a file object and a with statement is that wfd is
explicitly closed now while it seems like before it was implicitly closed by
process exit.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# A portable replacement for 'seq'
#
# Usage:
# seq STOP [1, STOP] stepping by 1
# seq START STOP [START, STOP] stepping by 1
# seq START STEP STOP [START, STOP] stepping by STEP
import os
import sys
try:
import msvcrt
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
pass
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
xrange = range
start = 1
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
start = int(sys.argv[1])
step = 1
if len(sys.argv) > 3:
step = int(sys.argv[2])
stop = int(sys.argv[-1]) + 1
for i in xrange(start, stop, step):
print(i)