( )⚙ D11333 windows: degrade to py2 behavior when reading a non-symlink as a symlink

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Differential D11333

windows: degrade to py2 behavior when reading a non-symlink as a symlink
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Authored by mharbison72 on Aug 22 2021, 7:39 PM.

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rHG4162f6b40f2c: windows: degrade to py2 behavior when reading a non-symlink as a symlink
rHG9c67faf2e28e: windows: degrade to py2 behavior when reading a non-symlink as a symlink
Summary

While waiting for the push to hg-committed in WSL to complete, I ran a
phabimport from Windows and got this traceback:

$ hg phabimport 11313
** Unknown exception encountered with possibly-broken third-party extension "mercurial_keyring" (version N/A)
** which supports versions unknown of Mercurial.
** Please disable "mercurial_keyring" and try your action again.
** If that fixes the bug please report it to https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial_keyring/issues
** Python 3.9.5 (default, May  6 2021, 17:29:31) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)]
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.9rc1+hg32.0e2f5733563d)
** Extensions loaded: absorb, blackbox, evolve 10.3.3, extdiff, fastannotate, fix, mercurial_keyring, mq, phabblocker 20210126, phabricator, rebase, show, strip, topic 0.22.3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mercurial.lock", line 279, in _trylock
  File "mercurial.vfs", line 202, in makelock
  File "mercurial.util", line 2147, in makelock
FileExistsError: [WinError 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists: b'hp-omen:78348' -> b'C:\\Users\\Matt\\hg/.hg/store/lock'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 24, in <module>
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 144, in run
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 250, in dispatch
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 294, in _rundispatch
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 470, in _runcatch
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 480, in _callcatch
  File "mercurial.scmutil", line 153, in callcatch
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 460, in _runcatchfunc
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 1273, in _dispatch
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 918, in runcommand
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 1285, in _runcommand
  File "mercurial.dispatch", line 1271, in <lambda>
  File "mercurial.util", line 1886, in check
  File "mercurial.util", line 1886, in check
  File "hgext.mq", line 4239, in mqcommand
  File "mercurial.util", line 1886, in check
  File "mercurial.util", line 1886, in check
  File "hgext.phabricator", line 314, in inner
  File "hgext.phabricator", line 2222, in phabimport
  File "hgext.phabricator", line 2123, in readpatch
  File "hgext.phabricator", line 2199, in _write
  File "mercurial.localrepo", line 2956, in lock
  File "mercurial.localrepo", line 2918, in _lock
  File "mercurial.lock", line 152, in trylock
  File "mercurial.lock", line 283, in _trylock
  File "mercurial.lock", line 314, in _readlock
  File "mercurial.vfs", line 221, in readlock
  File "mercurial.util", line 2163, in readlock
  File "mercurial.windows", line 619, in readlink
ValueError: not a symbolic link

Both exceptions look accurate (the file exists, and the Windows side can't read
WSL side symlinks). I didn't try to reproduce this entirely within the Windows
side, but we can do better than a cryptic stacktrace. With this change, the
same scenario results in this abort:

abort: C:\Users\Matt\hg/.hg/store/lock: The file cannot be accessed by the system

When both the push and phabimport are done on the Windows side, it prints a
message about waiting for the lock, and successfully applies the patch after the
push completes.

I'm not sure if there's enough info to be able to convert the abort into the
wait scenario. As it stands now, we don't support symlinks on Windows, which
requires either a UAC Administrator level process or an opt-in in developer
mode, and there are several places where the new symlink on Windows support in
py3 was explicitly disabled in order to get tests to pass quicker.

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Mmercurial/windows.py (11 lines)

Diff 30013

mercurial/windows.py

def groupname(gid=None): def groupname(gid=None):
"""Return the name of the group with the given gid. """Return the name of the group with the given gid.
If gid is None, return the name of the current group.""" If gid is None, return the name of the current group."""
return None return None
def readlink(pathname): def readlink(pathname):
return pycompat.fsencode(os.readlink(pycompat.fsdecode(pathname))) path = pycompat.fsdecode(pathname)
try:
link = os.readlink(path)
except ValueError as e:
# On py2, os.readlink() raises an AttributeError since it is
# unsupported. On py3, reading a non-link raises a ValueError. Simply
# treat this as the error the locking code has been expecting up to now
# until an effort can be made to enable symlink support on Windows.
raise AttributeError(e)
return pycompat.fsencode(link)
def removedirs(name): def removedirs(name):
"""special version of os.removedirs that does not remove symlinked """special version of os.removedirs that does not remove symlinked
directories or junction points if they actually contain files""" directories or junction points if they actually contain files"""
if listdir(name): if listdir(name):
return return
os.rmdir(name) os.rmdir(name)