mercurial/dirstateutils/timestamp.py

# Copyright Mercurial Contributors
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import functools
import os
import stat

from .. import error


rangemask = 0x7FFFFFFF


@functools.total_ordering
class timestamp(tuple):
    """
    A Unix timestamp with optional nanoseconds precision,
    modulo 2**31 seconds.

    A 2-tuple containing:

    `truncated_seconds`: seconds since the Unix epoch,
    truncated to its lower 31 bits

    `subsecond_nanoseconds`: number of nanoseconds since `truncated_seconds`.
    When this is zero, the sub-second precision is considered unknown.
    """

    def __new__(cls, value):
        truncated_seconds, subsec_nanos, second_ambiguous = value
        value = (truncated_seconds & rangemask, subsec_nanos, second_ambiguous)
        return super(timestamp, cls).__new__(cls, value)

    def __eq__(self, other):
        raise error.ProgrammingError(
            'timestamp should never be compared directly'
        )

    def __gt__(self, other):
        raise error.ProgrammingError(
            'timestamp should never be compared directly'
        )


def get_fs_now(vfs):
    """return a timestamp for "now" in the current vfs

    This will raise an exception if no temporary files could be created.
    """
    tmpfd, tmpname = vfs.mkstemp()
    try:
        return mtime_of(os.fstat(tmpfd))
    finally:
        os.close(tmpfd)
        vfs.unlink(tmpname)


def zero():
    """
    Returns the `timestamp` at the Unix epoch.
    """
    return tuple.__new__(timestamp, (0, 0))


def mtime_of(stat_result):
    """
    Takes an `os.stat_result`-like object and returns a `timestamp` object
    for its modification time.
    """
    try:
        # TODO: add this attribute to `osutil.stat` objects,
        # see `mercurial/cext/osutil.c`.
        #
        # This attribute is also not available on Python 2.
        nanos = stat_result.st_mtime_ns
    except AttributeError:
        # https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.stat_float_times
        # "For compatibility with older Python versions,
        #  accessing stat_result as a tuple always returns integers."
        secs = stat_result[stat.ST_MTIME]

        subsec_nanos = 0
    else:
        billion = int(1e9)
        secs = nanos // billion
        subsec_nanos = nanos % billion

    return timestamp((secs, subsec_nanos, False))


def reliable_mtime_of(stat_result, present_mtime):
    """same as `mtime_of`, but return None if the date might be ambiguous

    A modification time is reliable if it is older than "present_time" (or
    sufficiently in the futur).

    Otherwise a concurrent modification might happens with the same mtime.
    """
    file_mtime = mtime_of(stat_result)
    file_second = file_mtime[0]
    boundary_second = present_mtime[0]
    # If the mtime of the ambiguous file is younger (or equal) to the starting
    # point of the `status` walk, we cannot garantee that another, racy, write
    # will not happen right after with the same mtime and we cannot cache the
    # information.
    #
    # However is the mtime is far away in the future, this is likely some
    # mismatch between the current clock and previous file system operation. So
    # mtime more than one days in the future are considered fine.
    if boundary_second <= file_second < (3600 * 24 + boundary_second):
        return None
    else:
        return file_mtime