[gentoo-commits] portage r14451 - main/trunk/pym/portage

[Zac Medico (zmedico)]

Author: zmedico
Date: 2009-09-27 20:12:29 +0000 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 14451

Modified:
   main/trunk/pym/portage/__init__.py
Log:
Make _test_pty_eof() fork when writing to the slave_fd, since otherwise
it would block on some platforms such as Darwin.


Modified: main/trunk/pym/portage/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- main/trunk/pym/portage/__init__.py	2009-09-27 19:47:13 UTC (rev 14450)
+++ main/trunk/pym/portage/__init__.py	2009-09-27 20:12:29 UTC (rev 14451)
@@ -3768,10 +3768,18 @@
 	termios.tcsetattr(slave_fd, termios.TCSANOW, mode)
 
 	# Simulate a subprocess writing some data to the
-	# slave end of the pipe, and then exiting.
-	slave_file.write(_unicode_encode(test_string,
-		encoding='utf_8', errors='strict'))
-	slave_file.close()
+	# slave end of the pipe, and then exiting. Do a
+	# real fork here since otherwise slave_file.close()
+	# would block on some platforms such as Darwin.
+	pid = os.fork()
+	if pid == 0:
+		slave_file.write(_unicode_encode(test_string,
+			encoding='utf_8', errors='strict'))
+		slave_file.close()
+		os._exit(os.EX_OK)
+	else:
+		slave_file.close()
+		os.waitpid(pid, 0)
 
 	eof = False
 	data = []