AsynchronousLock: use subprocess if no threads

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/lock-helper.py b/bin/lock-helper.py
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+++ b/bin/lock-helper.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+import sys
+import portage
+
+def main(args):
+
+	if args and sys.hexversion < 0x3000000 and not isinstance(args[0], unicode):
+		for i, x in enumerate(args):
+			args[i] = portage._unicode_decode(x, errors='strict')
+
+	lock_obj = portage.locks.lockfile(args[0], wantnewlockfile=True)
+	sys.stdout.write('\0')
+	sys.stdout.flush()
+	sys.stdin.read(1)
+	portage.locks.unlockfile(lock_obj)
+	return portage.os.EX_OK
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	rval = main(sys.argv[1:])
+	sys.exit(rval)