This change blocks off 2 common scenarios where a race condition is
upgraded to a hang, when the library could internally do better.
* Since we don't know whether the receiver of a `reply_to` is expecting
a raw or pickled message, and since in the case of a raw reply, there
is no way to signal "dead" to the receiver, override the reply_to
field to explicitly mark a message as dead using a special handle.
This replaces the serialized _DEAD sentinel value with a slightly
neater interface, in the form of the reserved IS_DEAD handle, and
enables an important subsequent change: when a context cannot route a
message, it can send a generic 'dead' reply back towards the message
source, ensuring any sleeping thread is woken with ChannelError.
The use of this field could potentially be extended later on if
additional flags are needed, but for now this seems to suffice.
* Teach Router._invoke() to reply with a dead message when it receives a
message for an invalid local handle.
* Teach Router._async_route() to reply with a dead message when it
receives an unroutable message.
The module name comes from YAML via Jinja2.. it's always Unicode. Mixing
it into a temporary directory name produces a Unicode tempdir name,
which ends up in sys.argv via TemporaryArgv.
This is a partial fix, there are still at least 2 cases needing covered:
- In-progress connections must have CallError or similar sent to any
waiters
- Once connection delegation exists, it is possible for other worker
processes to be active (and in any step in the process), trying to
communicate with a context that we know can no longer be communicated
with. The solution to that isn't clear yet.
Additionally ensure root has /bin/bash shell in both Docker images.
And by "compatible" I mean "terrible". This does not implement async job
timeouts, but I'm not going to bother, upstream async implementation is
so buggy and inconsistent it resists even having its behaviour captured
in tests.
Presently there is still no mechanism to add :attr:`tty_stream` to the
multiplexer after connection is successful, but for now it's not
expected that anything will be logged to it anyway.
Closes#148.
- namespace & document test accounts in README.md
- standardize the password format everywhere, and ensure the passwords
differ everywhere.
- Add MITOGEN_TEST_DISTRO environment variable.
David Wilson