New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>:
One of the buildbots recently showed the following failure:
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ERROR: test_rapid_restart
(test.test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestManagerRestart)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py",
line 1442, in test_rapid_restart
queue = manager.get_queue()
File
"/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py",
line 670, in temp
token, exp = self._create(typeid, *args, **kwds)
File
"/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py",
line 568, in _create
conn = self._Client(self._address, authkey=self._authkey)
File
"/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py",
line 778, in XmlClient
import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib
File "/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py", line
137, in <module>
import http.client
File "/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/http/client.py", line
69, in <module>
import email.parser
File "/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/email/parser.py", line
12, in <module>
from email.feedparser import FeedParser
File "/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo/build/Lib/email/feedparser.py",
line 28, in <module>
from email import policy
EOFError: EOF read where not expected
(http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%203.x/builds/942/steps/test/logs/stdio)
"EOF read where not expected" comes from reading a pyc file in marshal.c. It is
raised when the pyc file is somehow truncated or incomplete. Writing and
reading the same pyc file is protected by the import lock when in a single
interpreter, but not when running several Python processes at the same time
(which test_multiprocessing obviously does).
Under POSIX, import.c could do the traditional write-then-rename dance which
guarantees that the file contents appear atomically.
And so could importlib.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 145313
nosy: brett.cannon, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Writing a pyc file is not atomic
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue13146>
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