From 79589a4ab283e2cd76452141d0a004a1cb347f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:49:47 -0800 Subject: ebuild-ipc: use plain file read instead of array Array.fromfile() seems to be more error prone. For example, see bug 337465. --- bin/ebuild-ipc.py | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'bin/ebuild-ipc.py') diff --git a/bin/ebuild-ipc.py b/bin/ebuild-ipc.py index 45d71202e..d8e7e5512 100755 --- a/bin/ebuild-ipc.py +++ b/bin/ebuild-ipc.py @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ #!/usr/bin/python -# Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 2010-2011 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # # This is a helper which ebuild processes can use # to communicate with portage's main python process. -import array import logging import os import pickle @@ -141,13 +140,11 @@ class EbuildIpc(object): # read and write of whole pickles. input_file = open(self.ipc_out_fifo, 'rb', 0) - # For maximum portability, us an array in order to force - # a single atomic read of a whole pickle (bug #337465). - buf = array.array('B') - + # For maximum portability, use a single atomic read. + buf = None try: - buf.fromfile(input_file, self._BUFSIZE) - except (EOFError, IOError) as e: + buf = input_file.read(self._BUFSIZE) + except IOError as e: if not buf: portage.util.writemsg_level( "ebuild-ipc: %s\n" % (e,), @@ -167,7 +164,7 @@ class EbuildIpc(object): else: try: - reply = pickle.loads(buf.tostring()) + reply = pickle.loads(buf) except SystemExit: raise except Exception as e: -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22