posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode
Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.
Consider the program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
fprintf(f, "narf\n");
fclose(f);
f = fopen("narf", "a");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
fprintf(f, "troz\n");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
return 0;
}
on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints
5
10
but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints
0
10
By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:
> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().
in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/2137
Setup:
create a little extension that has 3 side-effects:
1) ensure changelog data is not inlined
2) make revlog to use lazyparser
3) test that repo.lookup() works
1 and 2 are preconditions for the bug; 3 is the bug.
$ cat > commitwrapper.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import extensions, node, revlog
>
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> class wraprepo(repo.__class__):
> def commit(self, *args, **kwargs):
> result = super(wraprepo, self).commit(*args, **kwargs)
> tip1 = node.short(repo.changelog.tip())
> tip2 = node.short(repo.lookup(tip1))
> assert tip1 == tip2
> ui.write(b'new tip: %s\n' % tip1)
> return result
> repo.__class__ = wraprepo
>
> def extsetup(ui):
> revlog._maxinline = 8 # split out 00changelog.d early
> revlog._prereadsize = 8 # use revlog.lazyparser
> EOF
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> commitwrapper = `pwd`/commitwrapper.py
> EOF
$ hg init repo1
$ cd repo1
$ echo a > a
$ hg commit -A -m'add a with a long commit message to make the changelog a bit bigger'
adding a
new tip: 553596fad57b
Test that new changesets are visible to repo.lookup():
$ echo a >> a
$ hg commit -m'one more commit to demonstrate the bug'
new tip: 799ae3599e0e
$ hg tip
changeset: 1:799ae3599e0e
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: one more commit to demonstrate the bug
$ cd ..