D1457: workers: don't use backgroundfilecloser in threads

wlis (Wojciech Lis) phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Fri Dec 15 12:13:36 EST 2017


This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.
Closed by commit rHG60f2a215faa7: workers: don't use backgroundfilecloser in threads (authored by wlis, committed by ).

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

CHANGES SINCE LAST UPDATE
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1457?vs=4386&id=4484

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1457

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/vfs.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/vfs.py b/mercurial/vfs.py
--- a/mercurial/vfs.py
+++ b/mercurial/vfs.py
@@ -277,8 +277,12 @@
         to ``__call__``/``open`` to result in the file possibly being closed
         asynchronously, on a background thread.
         """
-        # This is an arbitrary restriction and could be changed if we ever
-        # have a use case.
+        # Sharing backgroundfilecloser between threads is complex and using
+        # multiple instances puts us at risk of running out of file descriptors
+        # only allow to use backgroundfilecloser when in main thread.
+        if not isinstance(threading.currentThread(), threading._MainThread):
+            yield
+            return
         vfs = getattr(self, 'vfs', self)
         if getattr(vfs, '_backgroundfilecloser', None):
             raise error.Abort(
@@ -413,7 +417,8 @@
                                     ' valid for checkambig=True') % mode)
             fp = checkambigatclosing(fp)
 
-        if backgroundclose:
+        if (backgroundclose and
+                isinstance(threading.currentThread(), threading._MainThread)):
             if not self._backgroundfilecloser:
                 raise error.Abort(_('backgroundclose can only be used when a '
                                   'backgroundclosing context manager is active')



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