chgserver: truncate base address at "." for hash address Previously, the hash address is just appending "-$HASH" to base address. This patch makes it truncate the basename address at "." before appending "-$HASH". This makes it possible to spawn new servers in a racy situation and the client could be sure the server it connects is the new server just spawned. This is a step towards removing the lock. One of the functionalities of the lock is to make sure the connect will connect to a server it just created: 1. start server --address foo 2. connect to foo # wish "foo" is the server just started With this change, the client could do: 1. start server --address foo.tmp$PID 2. connect to foo.tmp$PID # is the server just started (note: if it is not, it does not affect correctness - linux pid namespace is not a concern here) 3. rename foo.tmp$PID to foo Another functionality of the lock is to avoid starting multiple servers with a same confighash in parallel. But that also prevents starting multiple servers with different confighashes in parallel.

--- a/mercurial/chgserver.py	Sun Oct 23 17:47:00 2016 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/chgserver.py	Mon Dec 19 22:07:41 2016 +0000
@@ -526,7 +526,12 @@
     return '%s.%d.tmp' % (address, os.getpid())
 
 def _hashaddress(address, hashstr):
-    return '%s-%s' % (address, hashstr)
+    # if the basename of address contains '.', use only the left part. this
+    # makes it possible for the client to pass 'server.tmp$PID' and follow by
+    # an atomic rename to avoid locking when spawning new servers.
+    dirname, basename = os.path.split(address)
+    basename = basename.split('.', 1)[0]
+    return '%s-%s' % (os.path.join(dirname, basename), hashstr)
 
 class chgunixservicehandler(object):
     """Set of operations for chg services"""