This is a partial fix to a general problem: deciding which bits of state
to keep from the parent, and which to clear out. When forking from a
heavily threaded process, there will be 2x$n_threads fds just sitting
around doing nothing, due to Latch use in the parent.
We can't just close all nonstandard fds post-fork, since user code may
be expecting some FDs to be preserved.
This permits graceful shutdown of individual contexts, without tearing
down everything.
Update mitogen.parent.Stream to also wait for the child to exit, to
prevent the buildup of zombie processes. This introduces a blocking wait
for process exit on the Broker thread, let's see if we can get away with
it. Chances are reasonable that it'll cause needless hangs on heavily
loaded machines.
The Context and Router APIs for constructing children and making
function calls should be available in every parent context, as user code
wants to have access to the same API.
nested_test was failing due to the recent change to centralize
O_CLOEXEC, since stdout and stderr were being marked as non-inheritable.
That meant child processes would start with no stdout/stderr, triggering
a race between Waker opening its pipes, and IoLogger dup2'ing its pipes
over the stdio handles.
Since the stdio handles were closed, Waker would receive one of them as
one end of its pipe, and consequently have it overwritten by IoLogger.
When IoLogger dups over the top of fd 2, it becomes possible for
Waker.on_read() to be called due to pipe's other end to be closed,
causing an OSError exception with errno EAGAIN to appear.
This eliminates Context.on_disconnect() and instead moves its
functionality to a signal wired up by ExternalContext.main().
It leaves mitogen.master.Context is in a better condition to move into
mitogen.parent where it belongs.
* Split setup_globals() from setup_package() and make package setup
optional (fork never needs it -- synthetic package already exists in
children and the real package exists in masters).
* Add main() parameter to allow passing in the existing Importer
instance. In forks from children, this means we inherit all the cached
module state along with the __loader__ used to import any existing
modules.
This is a hacky layering violation, but it seems the simplest approach
for now: fork needs access to Router, in order to recover the existing
Importer instance.
This abstracts the pattern found in parent.ModuleForwarder and to a
lesser degree master.ModuleResponser. We can probably use it in those
contexts later.
Not sure why this wasn't done before, seems it should have always been
this way, and can't see any reason it wasn't. Without it, many fds are
leaked into at least .local() children. Closes#163.
* IDs are allocated by the parent responsible for contructing a new
child, using ALLOCATE_ID to the master as necessary to allocate new ID
ranges.
* ADD_ROUTE is sent up the tree rather than down. This permits
construction of the new context to complete concurrent to parent
contexts learning about its existence. Since all streams are strictly
ordered, it's not possible for any parent to observe messages from the
new context prior to arrival of an ADD_ROUTE from the parent notifying
of its existence.
If the new context, for example, implements an Ansible async task, its
parent can start executing that without waiting for any synchronous
confirmation from any parent or the master.
* Since routes propagate up, it's no longer possible for a plain
non-parent child to ever receive ADD_ROUTE, so that code can be moved
out of core.py and into parent.py (-0.2kb compressed).
* Add a .routes attribute to parent.Stream, and respond to disconnection
signal on the stream by propagating DEL_ROUTE for any ADD_ROUTE ever
received from that stream.
* Centralize route management in a new parent.RouteMonitor class
* Don't need to sleep if queue>sleepers, can just pop the right queue
element and return it.
* If queue>sleeping and waking==sleeping, no mechanism existed to ensure
a thread newly added to sleeping would ever be woken. Above change
fixes that.
* Cannot trust select() return value, scheduler might sleep us
indefinitely while put() writes a byte.
* Sleeping threads didn't pop FIFO, they popped in whatever order
scheduler woke them up. Must recover index and use it to pick the pop
index.
David Wilson