mercurial/stack.py

posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode

Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.

Consider the program:

   #include <stdio.h>

   int main() {
     FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
     fprintf(f, "narf\n");
     fclose(f);

     f = fopen("narf", "a");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
     fprintf(f, "troz\n");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));

     return 0;
   }

on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints

   5
   10

but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints

   0
   10

By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:

> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().

in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

# stack.py - Mercurial functions for stack definition
#
#  Copyright Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> and other
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

from . import (
    revsetlang,
    scmutil,
)

def getstack(repo, rev=None):
    """return a sorted smartrev of the stack containing either rev if it is
    not None or the current working directory parent.

    The stack will always contain all drafts changesets which are ancestors to
    the revision and are not merges.
    """
    if rev is None:
        rev = '.'

    revspec = 'reverse(only(%s) and not public() and not ::merge())'
    revset = revsetlang.formatspec(revspec, rev)
    revisions = scmutil.revrange(repo, [revset])
    revisions.sort()
    return revisions