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sparse-revlog: set max delta chain length to on thousand The new snapshot system used in the sparse-revlog case gave us some small size benefit so far. However its most important property is to gracefully handle harder limit on delta chainlength. Long delta chain has a very detrimental impact on read (and write) performance in revlog. Being able to shorter them provide a great boost. However, shorting delta used to result significantly lower compression ratio. The intermediate snapshots effectively suppress most of this effect (even all in some case). # Effect on the test repository The repository we use for test is not "realistic" but can still show this in action using an unreasonably low chain limit. Limiting the chain length show a sizeable increase but stay under control: +6% for limit=15; +15% for limit=10. Without the snapshot system the increase is significantly bigger: +45% for limit=15; +80% for limit=10. Even slightly larger than without delta chain limit, the resulting size is still smaller than before we started doing snapshots. Here is a table for comparison. *Since the repository is not branchy, the initial sparse-revlog version does not bring much benefit compare to the non-sparse one): chain length limit | none | limit=15 | limit=10 | without sparse-revlog | 62 818 987 | 112 664 615 | 131 222 574 | without snapshot | 74 365 490 | 108 211 410 | 133 857 764 | with snapshot | 59 230 936 | 63 002 924 | 68 415 329 | # Effect On Real Life Repositories The series provides significant benefits on all kind of repositories. Using `hg debugupgraderepo -o redeltaparent --run`, we recomputed delta chain for various repositories with different settings: - delta chain length: unlimited or 1000 limit - sparse-revlog: enabled or disabled - this series: applied or not applied We can observe multiple types of effect: - On very branchy repositories: * The delta chain limit as low impact on the repo size. * Intermediate snapshot greatly reduces manifest size: - pypy: -80% - netbeans: -95% * The delta chain limit is effective, without a size impact: - netbeans average: 613 -> 282 - private #1 average: 1 068 -> 307 - On more linear repository: * Intermediate snapshot limit the impact of delta chain limit: - mozilla: without the series: +360% with the series: +25% * The delta chain limit provides large improvement: - mozilla's average chain length: unlimited: 15 338 limited: 469 * Despite the chain length limit, the manifest size is reduced: - mercurial: -25% - mozilla: -30% It is clear that the use of chains of intermediate snapshots provide large benefits both in storage size and delta chains quality. We should now switch our effort toward making sure the write performance are acceptable. Then, `sparse-revlog` will be a suitable format for all new repository. # Raw Statistic * no-sparse: general delta repository not using sparse-revlog * no-snapshot: sparse-revlog repository not using this series * snapshot: sparse-revlog repository using this series mercurial Manifest Size: limit | none | 1000 ------------|-------------|------------ no-sparse | 8 021 373 | 8 199 366 no-snapshot | 8 103 561 | 8 259 719 snapshot | 6 137 116 | 6 126 433 Manifest Chain length data limit || none || 1000 || value || average | max || average | max || ------------||---------|---------||---------|---------|| no-sparse || 307 | 1456 || 279 | 1000 || no-snapshot || 312 | 1456 || 283 | 1000 || snapshot || 248 | 1208 || 241 | 1000 || Full Store Size limit | none | 1000 ------------|-------------|------------ no-sparse | 51 013 198 | 51 201 574 no-snapshot | 50 930 795 | 51 141 006 snapshot | 48 072 037 | 48 093 572 pypy Manifest Size: limit | none | 1000 ------------|-------------|------------ no-sparse | 193 987 784 | 193 987 784 no-snapshot | 163 171 745 | 163 312 229 snapshot | 34 605 900 | 34 600 750 Manifest Chain length data limit || none || 1000 || value || average | max || average | max || ------------||---------|---------||---------|---------|| no-sparse || 101 | 692 || 101 | 692 || no-snapshot || 151 | 1307 || 148 | 1000 || snapshot || 128 | 1309 || 125 | 1000 || Full Store Size limit | none | 1000 ------------|-------------|------------ no-sparse | 495 931 473 | 495 931 473 no-snapshot | 465 441 017 | 465 581 501 snapshot | 355 467 301 | 355 472 451 Mozilla Manifest Size: limit | none | 1000 ------------|----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 416 757 148 | 1 869 009 668 no-snapshot | 401 592 370 | 1 843 493 795 snapshot | 224 359 521 | 284 615 500 Manifest Chain length data limit || none || 1000 || value || average | max || average | max || ------------||---------|---------||---------|---------|| no-sparse || 15 333 | 58 980 || 468 | 1 000 || no-snapshot || 15 336 | 58 980 || 469 | 1 000 || snapshot || 15 338 | 58 983 || 469 | 1 000 || Full Store Size limit | none | 1000 ------------|----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 2 712 477 887 | 4 164 995 451 no-snapshot | 2 698 887 835 | 4 141 054 304 snapshot | 2 518 130 385 | 2 578 587 596 Netbeans Manifest Size: limit | none | 1000 ------------|----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 4 766 794 101 | 4 870 642 687 no-snapshot | 4 334 806 082 | 4 428 681 309 snapshot | 232 659 666 | 240 330 665 Manifest Chain length data limit || none || 1000 || value || average | max || average | max || ------------||---------|---------||---------|---------|| no-sparse || 597 | 6802 || 254 | 1 000 || no-snapshot || 648 | 6 802 || 305 | 1 000 || snapshot || 613 | 6 804 || 282 | 1 000 || Full Store Size limit | none | 1000 ------------|----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 5 807 347 998 | 5 911 196 584 no-snapshot | 5 375 398 602 | 5 469 273 829 snapshot | 1 282 519 928 | 1 290 190 927 Private repo #1 Manifest Size: limit | none | 1000 ------------|-----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 41 389 010 840 | 41 398 162 091 no-snapshot | 9 737 319 435 | 10 223 773 150 snapshot | 744 215 807 | 747 961 822 Manifest Chain length data limit || none || 1000 || value || average | max || average | max || ------------||---------|---------||---------|---------|| no-sparse || 245 | 8 885 || 81 | 1 000 || no-snapshot || 1 225 | 8 885 || 336 | 1 000 || snapshot || 1 068 | 7 909 || 307 | 1 000 || Full Store Size limit | none | 1000 ------------|----------------|--------------- no-sparse | 49 646 065 126 | 49 655 216 377 no-snapshot | 17 924 862 856 | 18 411 316 571 snapshot | 9 009 024 710 | 9 012 770 725 Private repo #2 We currently have less data available for that repository. * Before is a sparse-revlog repository without this series * After is a sparse-revlog repository with this series + 1000 chain limit Manifest Size: Before: 1 531 485 040 bytes After: 1 091 422 451 bytes Manifest Chain: Before: 2 218 avg; 6 575 Max After: 442 avg; 1 000 Max Full Store Size Before: 15 203 955 615 after: 8 207 180 693
author Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net>
date Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:18:45 -0400
parents a4aa77b84efd
children 5fe0b880200e
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# posix.py - Posix utility function implementations for Mercurial
#
#  Copyright 2005-2009 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others
#
# 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

import errno
import fcntl
import getpass
import grp
import os
import pwd
import re
import select
import stat
import sys
import tempfile
import unicodedata

from .i18n import _
from . import (
    encoding,
    error,
    policy,
    pycompat,
)

osutil = policy.importmod(r'osutil')

posixfile = open
normpath = os.path.normpath
samestat = os.path.samestat
try:
    oslink = os.link
except AttributeError:
    # Some platforms build Python without os.link on systems that are
    # vaguely unix-like but don't have hardlink support. For those
    # poor souls, just say we tried and that it failed so we fall back
    # to copies.
    def oslink(src, dst):
        raise OSError(errno.EINVAL,
                      'hardlinks not supported: %s to %s' % (src, dst))
unlink = os.unlink
rename = os.rename
removedirs = os.removedirs
expandglobs = False

umask = os.umask(0)
os.umask(umask)

def split(p):
    '''Same as posixpath.split, but faster

    >>> import posixpath
    >>> for f in [b'/absolute/path/to/file',
    ...           b'relative/path/to/file',
    ...           b'file_alone',
    ...           b'path/to/directory/',
    ...           b'/multiple/path//separators',
    ...           b'/file_at_root',
    ...           b'///multiple_leading_separators_at_root',
    ...           b'']:
    ...     assert split(f) == posixpath.split(f), f
    '''
    ht = p.rsplit('/', 1)
    if len(ht) == 1:
        return '', p
    nh = ht[0].rstrip('/')
    if nh:
        return nh, ht[1]
    return ht[0] + '/', ht[1]

def openhardlinks():
    '''return true if it is safe to hold open file handles to hardlinks'''
    return True

def nlinks(name):
    '''return number of hardlinks for the given file'''
    return os.lstat(name).st_nlink

def parsepatchoutput(output_line):
    """parses the output produced by patch and returns the filename"""
    pf = output_line[14:]
    if pycompat.sysplatform == 'OpenVMS':
        if pf[0] == '`':
            pf = pf[1:-1] # Remove the quotes
    else:
        if pf.startswith("'") and pf.endswith("'") and " " in pf:
            pf = pf[1:-1] # Remove the quotes
    return pf

def sshargs(sshcmd, host, user, port):
    '''Build argument list for ssh'''
    args = user and ("%s@%s" % (user, host)) or host
    if '-' in args[:1]:
        raise error.Abort(
            _('illegal ssh hostname or username starting with -: %s') % args)
    args = shellquote(args)
    if port:
        args = '-p %s %s' % (shellquote(port), args)
    return args

def isexec(f):
    """check whether a file is executable"""
    return (os.lstat(f).st_mode & 0o100 != 0)

def setflags(f, l, x):
    st = os.lstat(f)
    s = st.st_mode
    if l:
        if not stat.S_ISLNK(s):
            # switch file to link
            fp = open(f, 'rb')
            data = fp.read()
            fp.close()
            unlink(f)
            try:
                os.symlink(data, f)
            except OSError:
                # failed to make a link, rewrite file
                fp = open(f, "wb")
                fp.write(data)
                fp.close()
        # no chmod needed at this point
        return
    if stat.S_ISLNK(s):
        # switch link to file
        data = os.readlink(f)
        unlink(f)
        fp = open(f, "wb")
        fp.write(data)
        fp.close()
        s = 0o666 & ~umask # avoid restatting for chmod

    sx = s & 0o100
    if st.st_nlink > 1 and bool(x) != bool(sx):
        # the file is a hardlink, break it
        with open(f, "rb") as fp:
            data = fp.read()
        unlink(f)
        with open(f, "wb") as fp:
            fp.write(data)

    if x and not sx:
        # Turn on +x for every +r bit when making a file executable
        # and obey umask.
        os.chmod(f, s | (s & 0o444) >> 2 & ~umask)
    elif not x and sx:
        # Turn off all +x bits
        os.chmod(f, s & 0o666)

def copymode(src, dst, mode=None):
    '''Copy the file mode from the file at path src to dst.
    If src doesn't exist, we're using mode instead. If mode is None, we're
    using umask.'''
    try:
        st_mode = os.lstat(src).st_mode & 0o777
    except OSError as inst:
        if inst.errno != errno.ENOENT:
            raise
        st_mode = mode
        if st_mode is None:
            st_mode = ~umask
        st_mode &= 0o666
    os.chmod(dst, st_mode)

def checkexec(path):
    """
    Check whether the given path is on a filesystem with UNIX-like exec flags

    Requires a directory (like /foo/.hg)
    """

    # VFAT on some Linux versions can flip mode but it doesn't persist
    # a FS remount. Frequently we can detect it if files are created
    # with exec bit on.

    try:
        EXECFLAGS = stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH
        cachedir = os.path.join(path, '.hg', 'cache')
        if os.path.isdir(cachedir):
            checkisexec = os.path.join(cachedir, 'checkisexec')
            checknoexec = os.path.join(cachedir, 'checknoexec')

            try:
                m = os.stat(checkisexec).st_mode
            except OSError as e:
                if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
                    raise
                # checkisexec does not exist - fall through ...
            else:
                # checkisexec exists, check if it actually is exec
                if m & EXECFLAGS != 0:
                    # ensure checkisexec exists, check it isn't exec
                    try:
                        m = os.stat(checknoexec).st_mode
                    except OSError as e:
                        if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
                            raise
                        open(checknoexec, 'w').close() # might fail
                        m = os.stat(checknoexec).st_mode
                    if m & EXECFLAGS == 0:
                        # check-exec is exec and check-no-exec is not exec
                        return True
                    # checknoexec exists but is exec - delete it
                    unlink(checknoexec)
                # checkisexec exists but is not exec - delete it
                unlink(checkisexec)

            # check using one file, leave it as checkisexec
            checkdir = cachedir
        else:
            # check directly in path and don't leave checkisexec behind
            checkdir = path
            checkisexec = None
        fh, fn = pycompat.mkstemp(dir=checkdir, prefix='hg-checkexec-')
        try:
            os.close(fh)
            m = os.stat(fn).st_mode
            if m & EXECFLAGS == 0:
                os.chmod(fn, m & 0o777 | EXECFLAGS)
                if os.stat(fn).st_mode & EXECFLAGS != 0:
                    if checkisexec is not None:
                        os.rename(fn, checkisexec)
                        fn = None
                    return True
        finally:
            if fn is not None:
                unlink(fn)
    except (IOError, OSError):
        # we don't care, the user probably won't be able to commit anyway
        return False

def checklink(path):
    """check whether the given path is on a symlink-capable filesystem"""
    # mktemp is not racy because symlink creation will fail if the
    # file already exists
    while True:
        cachedir = os.path.join(path, '.hg', 'cache')
        checklink = os.path.join(cachedir, 'checklink')
        # try fast path, read only
        if os.path.islink(checklink):
            return True
        if os.path.isdir(cachedir):
            checkdir = cachedir
        else:
            checkdir = path
            cachedir = None
        name = tempfile.mktemp(dir=pycompat.fsdecode(checkdir),
                               prefix=r'checklink-')
        name = pycompat.fsencode(name)
        try:
            fd = None
            if cachedir is None:
                fd = pycompat.namedtempfile(dir=checkdir,
                                            prefix='hg-checklink-')
                target = os.path.basename(fd.name)
            else:
                # create a fixed file to link to; doesn't matter if it
                # already exists.
                target = 'checklink-target'
                try:
                    fullpath = os.path.join(cachedir, target)
                    open(fullpath, 'w').close()
                except IOError as inst:
                    if inst[0] == errno.EACCES:
                        # If we can't write to cachedir, just pretend
                        # that the fs is readonly and by association
                        # that the fs won't support symlinks. This
                        # seems like the least dangerous way to avoid
                        # data loss.
                        return False
                    raise
            try:
                os.symlink(target, name)
                if cachedir is None:
                    unlink(name)
                else:
                    try:
                        os.rename(name, checklink)
                    except OSError:
                        unlink(name)
                return True
            except OSError as inst:
                # link creation might race, try again
                if inst.errno == errno.EEXIST:
                    continue
                raise
            finally:
                if fd is not None:
                    fd.close()
        except AttributeError:
            return False
        except OSError as inst:
            # sshfs might report failure while successfully creating the link
            if inst.errno == errno.EIO and os.path.exists(name):
                unlink(name)
            return False

def checkosfilename(path):
    '''Check that the base-relative path is a valid filename on this platform.
    Returns None if the path is ok, or a UI string describing the problem.'''
    return None # on posix platforms, every path is ok

def getfsmountpoint(dirpath):
    '''Get the filesystem mount point from a directory (best-effort)

    Returns None if we are unsure. Raises OSError on ENOENT, EPERM, etc.
    '''
    return getattr(osutil, 'getfsmountpoint', lambda x: None)(dirpath)

def getfstype(dirpath):
    '''Get the filesystem type name from a directory (best-effort)

    Returns None if we are unsure. Raises OSError on ENOENT, EPERM, etc.
    '''
    return getattr(osutil, 'getfstype', lambda x: None)(dirpath)

def setbinary(fd):
    pass

def pconvert(path):
    return path

def localpath(path):
    return path

def samefile(fpath1, fpath2):
    """Returns whether path1 and path2 refer to the same file. This is only
    guaranteed to work for files, not directories."""
    return os.path.samefile(fpath1, fpath2)

def samedevice(fpath1, fpath2):
    """Returns whether fpath1 and fpath2 are on the same device. This is only
    guaranteed to work for files, not directories."""
    st1 = os.lstat(fpath1)
    st2 = os.lstat(fpath2)
    return st1.st_dev == st2.st_dev

# os.path.normcase is a no-op, which doesn't help us on non-native filesystems
def normcase(path):
    return path.lower()

# what normcase does to ASCII strings
normcasespec = encoding.normcasespecs.lower
# fallback normcase function for non-ASCII strings
normcasefallback = normcase

if pycompat.isdarwin:

    def normcase(path):
        '''
        Normalize a filename for OS X-compatible comparison:
        - escape-encode invalid characters
        - decompose to NFD
        - lowercase
        - omit ignored characters [200c-200f, 202a-202e, 206a-206f,feff]

        >>> normcase(b'UPPER')
        'upper'
        >>> normcase(b'Caf\\xc3\\xa9')
        'cafe\\xcc\\x81'
        >>> normcase(b'\\xc3\\x89')
        'e\\xcc\\x81'
        >>> normcase(b'\\xb8\\xca\\xc3\\xca\\xbe\\xc8.JPG') # issue3918
        '%b8%ca%c3\\xca\\xbe%c8.jpg'
        '''

        try:
            return encoding.asciilower(path)  # exception for non-ASCII
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            return normcasefallback(path)

    normcasespec = encoding.normcasespecs.lower

    def normcasefallback(path):
        try:
            u = path.decode('utf-8')
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            # OS X percent-encodes any bytes that aren't valid utf-8
            s = ''
            pos = 0
            l = len(path)
            while pos < l:
                try:
                    c = encoding.getutf8char(path, pos)
                    pos += len(c)
                except ValueError:
                    c = '%%%02X' % ord(path[pos:pos + 1])
                    pos += 1
                s += c

            u = s.decode('utf-8')

        # Decompose then lowercase (HFS+ technote specifies lower)
        enc = unicodedata.normalize(r'NFD', u).lower().encode('utf-8')
        # drop HFS+ ignored characters
        return encoding.hfsignoreclean(enc)

if pycompat.sysplatform == 'cygwin':
    # workaround for cygwin, in which mount point part of path is
    # treated as case sensitive, even though underlying NTFS is case
    # insensitive.

    # default mount points
    cygwinmountpoints = sorted([
            "/usr/bin",
            "/usr/lib",
            "/cygdrive",
            ], reverse=True)

    # use upper-ing as normcase as same as NTFS workaround
    def normcase(path):
        pathlen = len(path)
        if (pathlen == 0) or (path[0] != pycompat.ossep):
            # treat as relative
            return encoding.upper(path)

        # to preserve case of mountpoint part
        for mp in cygwinmountpoints:
            if not path.startswith(mp):
                continue

            mplen = len(mp)
            if mplen == pathlen: # mount point itself
                return mp
            if path[mplen] == pycompat.ossep:
                return mp + encoding.upper(path[mplen:])

        return encoding.upper(path)

    normcasespec = encoding.normcasespecs.other
    normcasefallback = normcase

    # Cygwin translates native ACLs to POSIX permissions,
    # but these translations are not supported by native
    # tools, so the exec bit tends to be set erroneously.
    # Therefore, disable executable bit access on Cygwin.
    def checkexec(path):
        return False

    # Similarly, Cygwin's symlink emulation is likely to create
    # problems when Mercurial is used from both Cygwin and native
    # Windows, with other native tools, or on shared volumes
    def checklink(path):
        return False

_needsshellquote = None
def shellquote(s):
    if pycompat.sysplatform == 'OpenVMS':
        return '"%s"' % s
    global _needsshellquote
    if _needsshellquote is None:
        _needsshellquote = re.compile(br'[^a-zA-Z0-9._/+-]').search
    if s and not _needsshellquote(s):
        # "s" shouldn't have to be quoted
        return s
    else:
        return "'%s'" % s.replace("'", "'\\''")

def shellsplit(s):
    """Parse a command string in POSIX shell way (best-effort)"""
    return pycompat.shlexsplit(s, posix=True)

def quotecommand(cmd):
    return cmd

def testpid(pid):
    '''return False if pid dead, True if running or not sure'''
    if pycompat.sysplatform == 'OpenVMS':
        return True
    try:
        os.kill(pid, 0)
        return True
    except OSError as inst:
        return inst.errno != errno.ESRCH

def isowner(st):
    """Return True if the stat object st is from the current user."""
    return st.st_uid == os.getuid()

def findexe(command):
    '''Find executable for command searching like which does.
    If command is a basename then PATH is searched for command.
    PATH isn't searched if command is an absolute or relative path.
    If command isn't found None is returned.'''
    if pycompat.sysplatform == 'OpenVMS':
        return command

    def findexisting(executable):
        'Will return executable if existing file'
        if os.path.isfile(executable) and os.access(executable, os.X_OK):
            return executable
        return None

    if pycompat.ossep in command:
        return findexisting(command)

    if pycompat.sysplatform == 'plan9':
        return findexisting(os.path.join('/bin', command))

    for path in encoding.environ.get('PATH', '').split(pycompat.ospathsep):
        executable = findexisting(os.path.join(path, command))
        if executable is not None:
            return executable
    return None

def setsignalhandler():
    pass

_wantedkinds = {stat.S_IFREG, stat.S_IFLNK}

def statfiles(files):
    '''Stat each file in files. Yield each stat, or None if a file does not
    exist or has a type we don't care about.'''
    lstat = os.lstat
    getkind = stat.S_IFMT
    for nf in files:
        try:
            st = lstat(nf)
            if getkind(st.st_mode) not in _wantedkinds:
                st = None
        except OSError as err:
            if err.errno not in (errno.ENOENT, errno.ENOTDIR):
                raise
            st = None
        yield st

def getuser():
    '''return name of current user'''
    return pycompat.fsencode(getpass.getuser())

def username(uid=None):
    """Return the name of the user with the given uid.

    If uid is None, return the name of the current user."""

    if uid is None:
        uid = os.getuid()
    try:
        return pycompat.fsencode(pwd.getpwuid(uid)[0])
    except KeyError:
        return b'%d' % uid

def groupname(gid=None):
    """Return the name of the group with the given gid.

    If gid is None, return the name of the current group."""

    if gid is None:
        gid = os.getgid()
    try:
        return grp.getgrgid(gid)[0]
    except KeyError:
        return str(gid)

def groupmembers(name):
    """Return the list of members of the group with the given
    name, KeyError if the group does not exist.
    """
    return list(grp.getgrnam(name).gr_mem)

def spawndetached(args):
    return os.spawnvp(os.P_NOWAIT | getattr(os, 'P_DETACH', 0),
                      args[0], args)

def gethgcmd():
    return sys.argv[:1]

def makedir(path, notindexed):
    os.mkdir(path)

def lookupreg(key, name=None, scope=None):
    return None

def hidewindow():
    """Hide current shell window.

    Used to hide the window opened when starting asynchronous
    child process under Windows, unneeded on other systems.
    """
    pass

class cachestat(object):
    def __init__(self, path):
        self.stat = os.stat(path)

    def cacheable(self):
        return bool(self.stat.st_ino)

    __hash__ = object.__hash__

    def __eq__(self, other):
        try:
            # Only dev, ino, size, mtime and atime are likely to change. Out
            # of these, we shouldn't compare atime but should compare the
            # rest. However, one of the other fields changing indicates
            # something fishy going on, so return False if anything but atime
            # changes.
            return (self.stat.st_mode == other.stat.st_mode and
                    self.stat.st_ino == other.stat.st_ino and
                    self.stat.st_dev == other.stat.st_dev and
                    self.stat.st_nlink == other.stat.st_nlink and
                    self.stat.st_uid == other.stat.st_uid and
                    self.stat.st_gid == other.stat.st_gid and
                    self.stat.st_size == other.stat.st_size and
                    self.stat[stat.ST_MTIME] == other.stat[stat.ST_MTIME] and
                    self.stat[stat.ST_CTIME] == other.stat[stat.ST_CTIME])
        except AttributeError:
            return False

    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self == other

def statislink(st):
    '''check whether a stat result is a symlink'''
    return st and stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)

def statisexec(st):
    '''check whether a stat result is an executable file'''
    return st and (st.st_mode & 0o100 != 0)

def poll(fds):
    """block until something happens on any file descriptor

    This is a generic helper that will check for any activity
    (read, write.  exception) and return the list of touched files.

    In unsupported cases, it will raise a NotImplementedError"""
    try:
        while True:
            try:
                res = select.select(fds, fds, fds)
                break
            except select.error as inst:
                if inst.args[0] == errno.EINTR:
                    continue
                raise
    except ValueError: # out of range file descriptor
        raise NotImplementedError()
    return sorted(list(set(sum(res, []))))

def readpipe(pipe):
    """Read all available data from a pipe."""
    # We can't fstat() a pipe because Linux will always report 0.
    # So, we set the pipe to non-blocking mode and read everything
    # that's available.
    flags = fcntl.fcntl(pipe, fcntl.F_GETFL)
    flags |= os.O_NONBLOCK
    oldflags = fcntl.fcntl(pipe, fcntl.F_SETFL, flags)

    try:
        chunks = []
        while True:
            try:
                s = pipe.read()
                if not s:
                    break
                chunks.append(s)
            except IOError:
                break

        return ''.join(chunks)
    finally:
        fcntl.fcntl(pipe, fcntl.F_SETFL, oldflags)

def bindunixsocket(sock, path):
    """Bind the UNIX domain socket to the specified path"""
    # use relative path instead of full path at bind() if possible, since
    # AF_UNIX path has very small length limit (107 chars) on common
    # platforms (see sys/un.h)
    dirname, basename = os.path.split(path)
    bakwdfd = None
    if dirname:
        bakwdfd = os.open('.', os.O_DIRECTORY)
        os.chdir(dirname)
    sock.bind(basename)
    if bakwdfd:
        os.fchdir(bakwdfd)
        os.close(bakwdfd)