From 2f02f32a45b9037574299786470fa60f4ba8bcee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Groffen Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:19:45 +0000 Subject: update documentation on _test_openpty_eof and disable openpty on Solaris again (branches/prefix r14721) svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=14722 --- pym/portage/__init__.py | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py index ab777010..10b969c1 100644 --- a/pym/portage/__init__.py +++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py @@ -3793,6 +3793,11 @@ def _can_test_pty_eof(): """ The _test_pty_eof() function seems to hang on most kernels other than Linux. + This was reported for the following kernels which used to work fine + without this EOF test: Darwin, AIX, FreeBSD. They seem to hang on + the slave_file.close() call. Note that Python's implementation of + openpty on Solaris already caused random hangs without this EOF test + and hence is globally disabled. @rtype: bool @returns: True if _test_pty_eof() won't hang, False otherwise. """ @@ -3889,20 +3894,14 @@ def _test_pty_eof(): # this issue is fixed in python3, we can add another sys.hexversion # conditional to enable openpty support in the fixed versions. if sys.hexversion >= 0x3000000 and not _can_test_pty_eof(): + _disable_openpty = True +else: # Disable the use of openpty on Solaris as it seems Python's openpty # implementation doesn't play nice on Solaris with Portage's # behaviour causing hangs/deadlocks. - # Disable on Darwin also, it used to work fine, but since the - # introduction of _test_pty_eof Portage hangs (on the - # slave_file.close()) indicating some other problems with openpty on - # Darwin there - # On AIX, haubi reported that the openpty code doesn't work any - # longer since the introduction of _test_pty_eof either. - # Looks like Python's openpty module is too fragile to use on UNIX, - # so only use it on Linux - _disable_openpty = True -else: - _disable_openpty = False + # Additional note for the future: on Interix, pipes do NOT work, so + # _disable_openpty on Interix must *never* be True + _disable_openpty = platform.system() in ("SunOS",) _tested_pty = False if not _can_test_pty_eof(): -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad