merge with stable

worker: stop using a separate thread waiting for children Now that we have a SIGCHLD hander, and it could get executed when waiting for I/O. It's no longer necessary to have a separated waitpid thread. So just remove it.

worker: add a SIGCHLD handler to collect worker immediately As planned by previous patches, add a SIGCHLD handler to get notifications about worker exits, and deals with worker failure immediately. Note that the SIGCHLD handler gets unregistered before killworkers(), so SIGCHLD won't interrupt "killworkers" - making it harder to send kill signals to waited processes.

worker: make waitforworkers reentrant We are going to use it in the SIGCHLD handler. The handler will be executed in the main thread with the non-blocking version of waitpid, while the waitforworkers thread runs the blocking version. It's possible that one of them collects a worker and makes the other error out (no child to wait). This patch handles these errors: ECHILD is ignored. EINTR needs a retry. The "pids" set is designed to be only modifiable by "waitforworkers". And we only remove items after a successful waitpid. Since a child process can only be "waitpid"-ed once. It's guaranteed that "pids.remove(p)" won't be called with duplicated "p"s. And once a "p" is removed from "pids", that "p" does not need to be killed or waited any more.

worker: change "pids" to a set There is no need to keep any order of the "pids" array. A set is more efficient for the "remove" operation. And the following patch will use that.

worker: allow waitforworkers to be non-blocking This patch adds a boolean flag to waitforworkers and makes it non-blocking if set to True. This is to make it possible that we can reap our workers while keep other unrelated children untouched, after receiving SIGCHLD.

worker: wait worker pid explicitly Before this patch, waitforworkers uses os.wait() to collect child workers, and only wait len(pids) processes. This can have serious issues if other code spawns new processes and does not reap them: 1. worker.py may get wrong exit code and kill innocent workers. 2. worker.py may continue without waiting for all workers to complete. This patch fixes the issue by using waitpid to wait worker pid explicitly. However, this patch introduces a new issue: worker failure may not be handled immediately. The issue will be addressed in next patches.

worker: move killworkers and waitforworkers up We need to use them in the SIGCHLD handler and SIGCHLD handler should be installed before fork.

osutil: implement setprocname to set process title for some platforms This patch adds a simple setprocname method to osutil. The operation is not defined by any standard and is platform-specific, the current implementation tries to cover some major platforms (ex. Linux, OS X, FreeBSD) that is relatively easy to support. Other platforms (Windows [4], other BSDs, ...) can be added in the future. The current implementation supports two methods to change process title: a. setproctitle if available (works in FreeBSD). b. rewrite argv in place (works in Linux [1] and Mac OS X). [2] [3] [1]: Linux has "prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...)" but 1) it has 16-byte limit, which is too small; 2) it is not quite equivalent to what we want - it changes "/proc/self/comm", not "/proc/self/cmdline" - "comm" change won't show up in "ps" output unless "-o comm" is used. [2]: The implementation does not rewrite the **environ buffer like some other implementations do, just to make the code simpler and safer. However, this also means the buffer size we can rewrite is significantly shorter. If we are really greedy and want the "environ" space, we can change the implementation later. [3]: It requires a CPython private API: Py_GetArgcArgv to get the original argv. Unfortunately Python 3 makes a copy of argv and returns the wchar_t version, so it is not supported for now. (if we really want to, we could count backwards from "char **environ", given known argc and argv, not sure if that's a good idea - probably not) [4]: The feature is aimed to make it easier for forked command server processes to show what they are doing. Since Windows does not support fork(), despite it's a major platform, its support is not added in this patch.

setup: test setproctitle before building osutil We are going to use setproctitle (provided by FreeBSD) if it's available in the next patch. Therefore provide a macro to give some clues to the C pre-processor so it could choose code path wisely.