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lock: fix race in lock-breaking code...
lock: fix race in lock-breaking code With low frequency, I see hg pulls fail with output like: abort: no such file or directory: .hg/store/lock I think what happens is, in lock.py, in: def _testlock(self, locker): if not self._lockshouldbebroken(locker): return locker # if locker dead, break lock. must do this with another lock # held, or can race and break valid lock. try: with lock(self.vfs, self.f + b'.break', timeout=0): self.vfs.unlink(self.f) except error.LockError: return locker if a lock is breakable on disk, and two hg processes concurrently get to the "if locker dead" comment, a possible interleaving is: process1 finishes executing the function and then process2 finishes executing the function. If that happens, process2 will either get ENOENT in self.vfs.unlink (resulting in the spurious failure above), or break a valid lock and potentially cause repository corruption. The fix is simple enough: make sure the lock is breakable _inside_ the critical section, because only then can we know that no other process can invalidate our knowledge on the lock on disk. I don't think there are tests for this. I've tested this manually with: diff --git a/mercurial/lock.py b/mercurial/lock.py --- a/mercurial/lock.py +++ b/mercurial/lock.py @@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ class lock(object): if not self._lockshouldbebroken(locker): return locker + import random + time.sleep(1. + random.random()) # if locker dead, break lock. must do this with another lock # held, or can race and break valid lock. try: @@ -358,6 +360,7 @@ class lock(object): self.vfs.unlink(self.f) except error.LockError: return locker + time.sleep(1) def testlock(self): """return id of locker if lock is valid, else None. and I see this change of behavior before/after this commit: $ $hg init repo $ cd repo $ ln -s $HOSTNAME/effffffc:987654321 .hg/wlock $ touch a $ $hg commit -Am_ & $hg commit -Am _; wait -abort: No such file or directory: '/tmp/repo/.hg/wlock' adding a +warning: ignoring unknown working parent 679a8959a8ca! +nothing changed Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7199

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Synopsis
========
The Mercurial system uses a file called ``.hgignore`` in the root
directory of a repository to control its behavior when it searches
for files that it is not currently tracking.
Description
===========
The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often contain
files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These include backup
files created by editors and build products created by compilers.
These files can be ignored by listing them in a ``.hgignore`` file in
the root of the working directory. The ``.hgignore`` file must be
created manually. It is typically put under version control, so that
the settings will propagate to other repositories with push and pull.
An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the repository
root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against
any pattern in ``.hgignore``.
For example, say we have an untracked file, ``file.c``, at
``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c``
if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``.
In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of
per-user or global ignore files. See the ``ignore`` configuration
key on the ``[ui]`` section of :hg:`help config` for details of how to
configure these files.
To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages, many
commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see
:hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details.
Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even
if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly
added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern
in .hgignore.
Syntax
======
An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The ``#``
character is treated as a comment character, and the ``\`` character
is treated as an escape character.
Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form::
syntax: NAME
where ``NAME`` is one of the following:
``regexp``
Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
``glob``
Shell-style glob.
``rootglob``
A variant of ``glob`` that is rooted (see below).
The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns that
follow, until another syntax is selected.
Neither ``glob`` nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax
pattern of the form ``*.c`` will match a file ending in ``.c`` in any
directory, and a regexp pattern of the form ``\.c$`` will do the
same. To root a regexp pattern, start it with ``^``. To get the same
effect with glob-syntax, you have to use ``rootglob``.
Subdirectories can have their own .hgignore settings by adding
``subinclude:path/to/subdir/.hgignore`` to the root ``.hgignore``. See
:hg:`help patterns` for details on ``subinclude:`` and ``include:``.
.. note::
Patterns specified in other than ``.hgignore`` are always rooted.
Please see :hg:`help patterns` for details.
Example
=======
Here is an example ignore file. ::
# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.pyc
*~
# switch to regexp syntax.
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/