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.
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import os
import sys
from mercurial import (
dispatch,
)
def printb(data, end=b'\n'):
out = getattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer', sys.stdout)
out.write(data + end)
out.flush()
def testdispatch(cmd):
"""Simple wrapper around dispatch.dispatch()
Prints command and result value, but does not handle quoting.
"""
printb(b"running: %s" % (cmd,))
req = dispatch.request(cmd.split())
result = dispatch.dispatch(req)
printb(b"result: %r" % (result,))
testdispatch(b"init test1")
os.chdir('test1')
# create file 'foo', add and commit
f = open('foo', 'wb')
f.write(b'foo\n')
f.close()
testdispatch(b"add foo")
testdispatch(b"commit -m commit1 -d 2000-01-01 foo")
# append to file 'foo' and commit
f = open('foo', 'ab')
f.write(b'bar\n')
f.close()
testdispatch(b"commit -m commit2 -d 2000-01-02 foo")
# check 88803a69b24 (fancyopts modified command table)
testdispatch(b"log -r 0")
testdispatch(b"log -r tip")