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Avery Pennarun
61f3e4672e Workaround for completely broken file locking on Windows 10 WSL.
WSL (Windows Services for Linux) provides a Linux-kernel-compatible ABI
for userspace processes, but the current version doesn't not implement
fcntl() locks at all; it just always returns success.  See
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1927.

This causes us three kinds of problem:
  1. sqlite3 in WAL mode gives "OperationalError: locking protocol".
     1b. Other sqlite3 journal modes also don't work when used by
         multiple processes.
  2. redo parallelism doesn't work, because we can't prevent the same
     target from being build several times simultaneously.
  3. "redo-log -f" doesn't work, since it can't tell whether the log
     file it's tailing is "done" or not.

To fix #1, we switch the sqlite3 journal back to PERSIST instead of
WAL.  We originally changed to WAL in commit 5156feae9d to reduce
deadlocks on MacOS.  That was never adequately explained, but PERSIST
still acts weird on MacOS, so we'll only switch to PERSIST when we
detect that locking is definitely broken.  Sigh.

To (mostly) fix #2, we disable any -j value > 1 when locking is broken.
This prevents basic forms of parallelism, but doesn't stop you from
re-entrantly starting other instances of redo.  To fix that properly,
we need to switch to a different locking mechanism entirely, which is
tough in python.  flock() locks probably work, for example, but
python's locks lie and just use fcntl locks for those.

To fix #3, we always force --no-log mode when we find that locking is
broken.
2019-01-02 14:49:33 -05:00
Avery Pennarun
29f939013e Add a bunch of missing python docstrings.
This appeases pylint, so un-disable its docstring warning.
2018-12-14 09:03:53 +00:00
Avery Pennarun
bd8dbfb487 Switch to module-relative import syntax.
Now that the python scripts are all in a "redo" python module, we can
use the "new style" (ahem) package-relative imports.  This appeases
pylint, plus avoids confusion in case more than one package has
similarly-named modules.
2018-12-05 02:34:36 -05:00
Avery Pennarun
9b6d1eeb6e env and env_init: Eliminate weird auto-initialization of globals.
Merge the two files into env, and make each command explicitly call the
function that sets it up in the way that's needed for that command.

This means we can finally just import all the modules at the top of
each file, without worrying about import order.  Phew.

While we're here, remove the weird auto-appending-'all'-to-targets
feature in env.init().  Instead, do it explicitly, and only from redo and
redo-ifchange, only if is_toplevel and no other targets are given.
2018-12-05 02:27:04 -05:00
Avery Pennarun
f1305b49eb Move env.{add,get}_lock() into cycles.py, and rename.
They really aren't locks at all, they're a cycle detector.  Also rename
REDO_LOCKS to a more meaningful REDO_CYCLES.  And we'll move the
CyclicDependencyError exception in here as well, instead of state.py
where it doesn't really belong.
2018-12-05 02:26:58 -05:00
Avery Pennarun
ded14507b0 Rename vars{,_init}.py -> env{,_init}.py.
This fixes some pylint 'redefined builtins' warnings.  While I was
here, I fixed the others too by renaming a few local variables.
2018-12-05 02:26:49 -05:00
Renamed from redo/vars.py (Browse further)