The Maildir specification doesn't seem to say anything about this
situation, and it can happen if you're keeping a Maildir mailbox in
Subversion (.svn directories) or some similar system. The patch just
ignores directories in the cur/, new/, tmp/ folders.
This change looks massive but it's mostly a re-indenting after
removing some try...finally blocks.
Also adds a test case that does a pack() while the mailbox is locked; this
test would have turned up bugs in the original code on some platforms.
In both nmh and GNU Mailutils' implementation of MH-format mailboxes,
no locking is done of individual message files when renaming them.
The original mailbox.py code did do locking, which meant that message
files had to be opened. This code was buggy on certain platforms
(found through reading the code); there were code paths that closed
the file object and then called _unlock_file() on it.
Will backport to 25-maint once I see how the buildbots react to this patch.
The first hunk changes the colon to an ! like other Windows variants.
We need to always wait on the child so the lock gets released and
no other tests fail. This is the try/finally in the second hunk.
be called at the end of each test that spawns children (perhaps it
should be called from regrtest instead?). This will hopefully prevent
some of the unexplained failures in the buildbots (hppa and alpha)
during tests that spawn children. The problems were not reproducible.
There were many zombies that remained at the end of several tests.
In the worst case, this shouldn't cause any more problems,
though it may not help either. Time will tell.
consistent with os.wait() returning immediately because some other
subprocess had previously exited; the test suite then immediately
tries to lock the mailbox and gets an error saying it's already
locked.
To fix this, do a waitpid() so the test suite only continues once
the intended child process has exited.
the 2005 Summer of Code).
The revision adds a number of new mailbox classes that support adding
and removing messages; these classes also support mailbox locking and
default to using email.Message instead of rfc822.Message.
The old mailbox classes are largely left alone for backward compatibility.
The exception is the Maildir class, which was present in the old module
and now inherits from the new classes. The Maildir class's interface
is pretty simple, though, so I think it'll be compatible with existing
code.
(The change to the NEWS file also adds a missing word to a different
news item, which unfortunately required rewrapping the line.)
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
Andrew M. Kuchling
Neal Norwitz
Tim Peters
Georg Brandl
Andrew MacIntyre
Guido van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Barry Warsaw
Fred Drake
Jack Jansen