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atomictempfile: avoid infinite recursion in __del__().
The problem is that a programmer using atomictempfile directly can
make an innocent everyday mistake -- not enough args to the
constructor -- which escalates badly. You would expect a simple
TypeError crash in that case, but you actually get an infinite
recursion that is surprisingly difficult to kill: it happens between
__del__() and __getattr__(), and Python does not handle infinite
recursion from __del__() well.
The fix is to not implement __getattr__(), but instead assign instance
attributes for the methods we wish to delegate to the builtin file
type: write() and fileno(). I've audited mercurial.* and hgext.* and
found no users of atomictempfile using methods other than write() and
rename(). I audited third-party extensions and found one (snap)
passing an atomictempfile to util.fstat(), so I also threw in
fileno().
The last time I submitted a similar patch, Matt proposed that we make
atomictempfile a subclass of file instead of wrapping it. Rejected on
grounds of unnecessary complexity: for one thing, it would make the
Windows implementation of posixfile quite a bit more complex. It would
have to become a subclass of file rather than a simple function -- but
since it's written in C, this is non-obvious and non-trivial.
Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with wrapping objects and
delegating methods: it's a well-established pattern that works just
fine in many cases. Subclassing is not the answer to all of life's
problems.
author | Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca> |
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date | Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:25:10 -0400 |
parents | 01c6be8361df |
children | c322890b03e6 |
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Test the CIA extension $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF > [extensions] > hgcia= > > [hooks] > changegroup.cia = python:hgext.hgcia.hook > > [cia] > user = testuser > project = testproject > test = True > EOF $ hg init src $ hg init cia $ cd src $ echo foo > foo $ hg ci -Amfoo adding foo $ hg push ../cia pushing to ../cia searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files <message> <generator> <name>Mercurial (hgcia)</name> <version>0.1</version> <url>http://hg.kublai.com/mercurial/hgcia</url> <user>testuser</user> </generator> <source> <project>testproject</project> <branch>default</branch> </source> <body> <commit> <author>test</author> <version>0:e63c23eaa88a</version> <log>foo</log> <files><file action="add">foo</file></files> </commit> </body> <timestamp>0</timestamp> </message>