[Scons-users] Possible 2.5.1 regression on Windows? (was: Unreliable build problem)

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Wed May 3 21:53:33 EDT 2017


Nope.. actually it's all 3.

The issue (at it's root) is likely either threads are sharing the handle
and it's not closed in a timely fashion on windows, or just plain normal
file closes aren't being closed before the call returns on win32.
Of note, looking at the c code, the GIL is released around the fclose()..

-Bill

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:09 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I think you mean:
> http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2449
> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/389/fix-
> race-condition-on-win32/diff
>
> V/R,
> William
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
> > Likely it's the same issue as this:
> > http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2124
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Arvid Rosén <arvid at softube.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have problems with that too. Typically running 16 threads. I had to
> >> rewrite all actions that generated source files (like header files with
> >> version information), because they never worked reliably on Windows.
> Mac has
> >> always been fine. I ended up using static header files with defines
> passed
> >> on the command line instead. Somewhat ugly but it works.
> >>
> >> I always thought this was rather related to some Windows related
> scanning
> >> or anti-virus service, but I might give it a try with 2.3.6 and see if
> that
> >> solves it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Arvid
> >>
> >> Get Outlook for iOS
> >> _____________________________
> >> From: Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> >> Sent: onsdag, maj 3, 2017 8:25 em
> >> Subject: Re: [Scons-users] Possible 2.5.1 regression on Windows? (was:
> >> Unreliable build problem)
> >> To: SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> That's useful to know 2.3.6 isn't showing this.
> >> We've had a few reports of others running into it.
> >>
> >> Are you using CacheDirs?
> >>
> >> -Bill
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Hill, Steve (FP COM)
> >> <Steve.Hill at cobham.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> While looking at the unreliable build problem (which I will return
> to), I
> >>> upgraded to 2.5.1 (from 2.3.6). Unfortunately, this seems to have
> introduced
> >>> an issue which is preventing me from rolling the new version out the
> >>> development community: I am seeing the file handle inheritance problem
> again
> >>> that _scons_file and _scons_open were added to work around.
> >>>
> >>> We typically use between 8 and 12 build threads (depending on the
> >>> physical machine that we are building on) and, when building with
> 2.5.1, we
> >>> quite frequently see the build fail with some sort of access denied
> issue.
> >>> The build system automatically runs handle.exe in this case and I can
> see
> >>> that the other (unrelated) build threads have an open handle on the
> file at
> >>> this time. Reverting to 2.3.6 results in the issue going away.
> >>>
> >>> I've confirmed that _scons_open and _scons_file are both in place for
> the
> >>> built-in file() and open() and I've monkey patched os.open to assert
> that it
> >>> is always called with the os.O_NOINHERIT flag. Does anyone know what
> other
> >>> functions could be causing this that I can check?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> S.
> >>>
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