With hgdemandimport disabled (chg's case), import uuid has an immediate
side effect calling ctypes.util.find_library trying to locate the
libuuid library. This happens at import time before dispatch.run().
The call trace is like:
File "hg/hg", line 54, in <module> from mercurial import ( File "hg/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 24, in <module> from . import ( File "hg/mercurial/commands.py", line 23, in <module> from . import ( File "hg/mercurial/help.py", line 33, in <module> from .hgweb import ( File "hg/mercurial/hgweb/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> from . import ( File "hg/mercurial/hgweb/hgweb_mod.py", line 14, in <module> from .common import ( File "hg/mercurial/hgweb/common.py", line 15, in <module> import uuid File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/uuid.py", line 404, in <module> lib = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library(libname))
The problem is, ctypes.util.find_library will execute
sh -c '/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null' on Python <= 2.7.12. The output of
sh may pollute the terminal:
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
This patch moves import uuid so its side-effect can only happen after the
cwd check in dispatch._getlocal. Therefore the terminal won't be
polluted by importing uuid.
Replaced with #if rmcwd