[PATCH 1 of 3 V2] windows: seek to the end of posixfile when opening in append mode

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Fri Feb 6 08:24:58 UTC 2015


On 2015-02-06 04:19, Matt Harbison wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison at yahoo.com>
> # Date 1422725984 18000
> #      Sat Jan 31 12:39:44 2015 -0500
> # Node ID 05678c22e04da407ab610765248636a125e1348a
> # Parent  a9b61dbdb827165a9fd9d44dd42b892dbd9fa07c
> windows: seek to the end of posixfile when opening in append mode
> 
> The position is implementation defined when opening in append mode, and it seems
> like Linux sets it to EOF while Windows keeps it at zero.  This has caused
> problems in the past when a file is opened and tell() is immediately called,
> such as 48c232873a54 and 6bf93440a717.

..

> Since the only caller of osutil.posixfile is this windows module, this seems
> like a better place to fix the issue than in osutil.c and pure.osutil.

Yep. Probably not worth the extra work. And it could be moved to
osutil.c as a followup later if really needed.

> diff --git a/mercurial/windows.py b/mercurial/windows.py
> --- a/mercurial/windows.py
> +++ b/mercurial/windows.py
> @@ -26,11 +26,19 @@
>  unlink = win32.unlink
>  
>  umask = 0022
> +_SEEK_END = 2 # os.SEEK_END was introduced in Python 2.5
>  
>  # wrap osutil.posixfile to provide friendlier exceptions
>  def posixfile(name, mode='r', buffering=-1):
>      try:
> -        return osutil.posixfile(name, mode, buffering)
> +        fp = osutil.posixfile(name, mode, buffering)
> +
> +        # The position when opening in append mode is implementation defined, so
> +        # make it consistent with other platforms, which position at EOF.
> +        if 'a' in mode:
> +            fp.seek(0, _SEEK_END)
> +
> +        return fp
>      except WindowsError, err:
>          raise IOError(err.errno, '%s: %s' % (name, err.strerror))
>  posixfile.__doc__ = osutil.posixfile.__doc__

I would probably have placed the seek call outside of the try-block, but
this looks good enough to me either way.



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