sshpeer: defer pipe buffering and stderr sidechannel binding

The doublepipe and bufferedinputpipe types facilitate polling
multiple pipes without blocking and for automatically forwarding
output from the SSH server's stderr pipe to the ui as "remote: "
output. This all happens automatically and callers don't need
to worry about reading from multiple pipes.

An upcoming change to version 2 of the SSH wire protocol will
eliminate the use of stderr and move side-channel output into
the "main" pipe. The SSH wire protocol will use a pair of
unidirectional pipes - just like the HTTP protocol. In this
future world, the doublepipe primitive isn't necessary because
the stderr pipe won't be used.

To prepare for eventually not using doublepipe, we delay the
construction of this primitive from immediately after
connection establishment to inside construction of the peer
instance. The handshake occurs between these two events. So
we had to teach the handshake code to read from stderr so
any stderr output from the server is still attended to early in
the connection lifetime.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2383

mercurial/sshpeer.py

@@ -156,13 +156,13 b' def _makeconnection(ui, sshcmd, args, re'
     # move to threading.
     stdin, stdout, stderr, proc = util.popen4(cmd, bufsize=0, env=sshenv)
 
-    stdout = doublepipe(ui, util.bufferedinputpipe(stdout), stderr)
-    stdin = doublepipe(ui, stdin, stderr)
-
     return proc, stdin, stdout, stderr
 
 def _performhandshake(ui, stdin, stdout, stderr):
     def badresponse():
+        # Flush any output on stderr.
+        _forwardoutput(ui, stderr)
+
         msg = _('no suitable response from remote hg')
         hint = ui.config('ui', 'ssherrorhint')
         raise error.RepoError(msg, hint=hint)
@@ -331,6 +331,9 b' def _performhandshake(ui, stdin, stdout,'
     if not caps:
         badresponse()
 
+    # Flush any output on stderr before proceeding.
+    _forwardoutput(ui, stderr)
+
     return protoname, caps
 
 class sshv1peer(wireproto.wirepeer):
@@ -347,6 +350,12 b' class sshv1peer(wireproto.wirepeer):'
         # self._subprocess is unused. Keeping a handle on the process
         # holds a reference and prevents it from being garbage collected.
         self._subprocess = proc
+
+        # And we hook up our "doublepipe" wrapper to allow querying
+        # stderr any time we perform I/O.
+        stdout = doublepipe(ui, util.bufferedinputpipe(stdout), stderr)
+        stdin = doublepipe(ui, stdin, stderr)
+
         self._pipeo = stdin
         self._pipei = stdout
         self._pipee = stderr

tests/test-check-interfaces.py

@@ -59,16 +59,20 b' class badpeer(httppeer.httppeer):'
     def badmethod(self):
         pass
 
+class dummypipe(object):
+    def close(self):
+        pass
+
 def main():
     ui = uimod.ui()
 
     checkobject(badpeer())
     checkobject(httppeer.httppeer(ui, 'http://localhost'))
     checkobject(localrepo.localpeer(dummyrepo()))
-    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv1peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, None, None,
-                                  None, None))
-    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv2peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, None, None,
-                                  None, None))
+    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv1peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, dummypipe(),
+                                  dummypipe(), None, None))
+    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv2peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, dummypipe(),
+                                  dummypipe(), None, None))
     checkobject(bundlerepo.bundlepeer(dummyrepo()))
     checkobject(statichttprepo.statichttppeer(dummyrepo()))
     checkobject(unionrepo.unionpeer(dummyrepo()))