run-tests: forward Python USER_BASE from site (issue5425) We do this so that any linters installed via pip install --user don't break. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/site.html#site.USER_BASE for a description of what this nonsense is all about. An alternative would be to not set HOME, but that'll cause other problems (see issue2707), or to forward every single path entry from sys.path in PYTHONPATH (which seems sketchy in its own way).

shelve: add missing space in help text The change is trivial and unlikely to have been translated so we update translation files too.

util: improve iterfile so it chooses code path wisely We have performance concerns on "iterfile" as it is 4X slower on normal files. While modern systems have the nice property that reading a "fast" (on-disk) file cannot be interrupted and should be made use of. This patch dumps the related knowledge in comments. And "iterfile" chooses code paths wisely: 1. If it's CPython 3, or PyPY, use the fast path. 2. If fp is a normal file, use the fast path. 3. If fp is not a normal file and CPython version >= 2.7.4, use the same workaround (4x slower) as before. 4. If fp is not a normal file and CPython version < 2.7.4, use another workaround (2x slower but may block longer then necessary) which basically re-invents the buffer + readline logic in Python. This will give us good confidence on both correctness and performance dealing with EINTR in iterfile(fp) for all known supported Python versions.

merge with stable

worker: stop using a separate thread waiting for children Now that we have a SIGCHLD hander, and it could get executed when waiting for I/O. It's no longer necessary to have a separated waitpid thread. So just remove it.

worker: add a SIGCHLD handler to collect worker immediately As planned by previous patches, add a SIGCHLD handler to get notifications about worker exits, and deals with worker failure immediately. Note that the SIGCHLD handler gets unregistered before killworkers(), so SIGCHLD won't interrupt "killworkers" - making it harder to send kill signals to waited processes.

worker: make waitforworkers reentrant We are going to use it in the SIGCHLD handler. The handler will be executed in the main thread with the non-blocking version of waitpid, while the waitforworkers thread runs the blocking version. It's possible that one of them collects a worker and makes the other error out (no child to wait). This patch handles these errors: ECHILD is ignored. EINTR needs a retry. The "pids" set is designed to be only modifiable by "waitforworkers". And we only remove items after a successful waitpid. Since a child process can only be "waitpid"-ed once. It's guaranteed that "pids.remove(p)" won't be called with duplicated "p"s. And once a "p" is removed from "pids", that "p" does not need to be killed or waited any more.

worker: change "pids" to a set There is no need to keep any order of the "pids" array. A set is more efficient for the "remove" operation. And the following patch will use that.

worker: allow waitforworkers to be non-blocking This patch adds a boolean flag to waitforworkers and makes it non-blocking if set to True. This is to make it possible that we can reap our workers while keep other unrelated children untouched, after receiving SIGCHLD.

worker: wait worker pid explicitly Before this patch, waitforworkers uses os.wait() to collect child workers, and only wait len(pids) processes. This can have serious issues if other code spawns new processes and does not reap them: 1. worker.py may get wrong exit code and kill innocent workers. 2. worker.py may continue without waiting for all workers to complete. This patch fixes the issue by using waitpid to wait worker pid explicitly. However, this patch introduces a new issue: worker failure may not be handled immediately. The issue will be addressed in next patches.