mercurial/lock.py

# lock.py - simple advisory locking scheme for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2, incorporated herein by reference.

import util, error
import errno, os, socket, time
import warnings

class lock(object):
    '''An advisory lock held by one process to control access to a set
    of files.  Non-cooperating processes or incorrectly written scripts
    can ignore Mercurial's locking scheme and stomp all over the
    repository, so don't do that.

    Typically used via localrepository.lock() to lock the repository
    store (.hg/store/) or localrepository.wlock() to lock everything
    else under .hg/.'''

    # lock is symlink on platforms that support it, file on others.

    # symlink is used because create of directory entry and contents
    # are atomic even over nfs.

    # old-style lock: symlink to pid
    # new-style lock: symlink to hostname:pid

    _host = None

    def __init__(self, file, timeout=-1, releasefn=None, desc=None):
        self.f = file
        self.held = 0
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.releasefn = releasefn
        self.desc = desc
        self.lock()

    def __del__(self):
        if self.held:
            warnings.warn("use lock.release instead of del lock",
                    category=DeprecationWarning,
                    stacklevel=2)

            # ensure the lock will be removed
            # even if recursive locking did occur
            self.held = 1

        self.release()

    def lock(self):
        timeout = self.timeout
        while 1:
            try:
                self.trylock()
                return 1
            except error.LockHeld, inst:
                if timeout != 0:
                    time.sleep(1)
                    if timeout > 0:
                        timeout -= 1
                    continue
                raise error.LockHeld(errno.ETIMEDOUT, inst.filename, self.desc,
                                     inst.locker)

    def trylock(self):
        if self.held:
            self.held += 1
            return
        if lock._host is None:
            lock._host = socket.gethostname()
        lockname = '%s:%s' % (lock._host, os.getpid())
        while not self.held:
            try:
                util.makelock(lockname, self.f)
                self.held = 1
            except (OSError, IOError), why:
                if why.errno == errno.EEXIST:
                    locker = self.testlock()
                    if locker is not None:
                        raise error.LockHeld(errno.EAGAIN, self.f, self.desc,
                                             locker)
                else:
                    raise error.LockUnavailable(why.errno, why.strerror,
                                                why.filename, self.desc)

    def testlock(self):
        """return id of locker if lock is valid, else None.

        If old-style lock, we cannot tell what machine locker is on.
        with new-style lock, if locker is on this machine, we can
        see if locker is alive.  If locker is on this machine but
        not alive, we can safely break lock.

        The lock file is only deleted when None is returned.

        """
        locker = util.readlock(self.f)
        try:
            host, pid = locker.split(":", 1)
        except ValueError:
            return locker
        if host != lock._host:
            return locker
        try:
            pid = int(pid)
        except:
            return locker
        if util.testpid(pid):
            return locker
        # if locker dead, break lock.  must do this with another lock
        # held, or can race and break valid lock.
        try:
            l = lock(self.f + '.break')
            l.trylock()
            os.unlink(self.f)
            l.release()
        except error.LockError:
            return locker

    def release(self):
        if self.held > 1:
            self.held -= 1
        elif self.held is 1:
            self.held = 0
            if self.releasefn:
                self.releasefn()
            try:
                os.unlink(self.f)
            except: pass

def release(*locks):
    for lock in locks:
        if lock is not None:
            lock.release()