# Copyright (c) 2009, Evan Fosmark # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this # list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, # this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation # and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE # DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR # ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES # (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; # LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND # ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS # SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # # The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those # of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, # either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project. import os import time import errno class FileLockException(Exception): pass class FileLock(object): """ A file locking mechanism that has context-manager support so you can use it in a with statement. This should be relatively cross compatible as it doesn't rely on msvcrt or fcntl for the locking. """ lock_count = {} # lock count for each locked file lock_handles = {} # file handle for each locked file def __init__(self, file_name, timeout=10, delay=0.05): """ Prepare the file locker. Specify the file to lock and optionally the maximum timeout and the delay between each attempt to lock. """ self.fd = None self.is_locked = False self.lockfile = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "%s.lock" % file_name) self.file_name = file_name self.timeout = timeout self.delay = delay def acquire(self): """ Acquire the lock, if possible. If the lock is in use, it check again every `wait` seconds. It does this until it either gets the lock or exceeds `timeout` number of seconds, in which case it throws an exception. """ # Don't try to lock the same file more than once if FileLock.lock_count.setdefault(self.lockfile, 0) > 0: self.is_locked = True self.fd = FileLock.lock_handles[self.lockfile] FileLock.lock_count[self.lockfile] += 1 return start_time = time.time() while True: try: # create the cache directory if it does not exist (new installations will not have a cache directory) stimdir = os.path.dirname(self.lockfile) cachedir = os.path.dirname(stimdir) if not os.path.isdir(cachedir): # make sure the cache exists os.mkdir(cachedir) if not os.path.isdir(stimdir): # and the specific stimulus dir os.mkdir(stimdir) self.fd = os.open(self.lockfile, os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL | os.O_RDWR) open(self.lockfile, "w").write(str(os.getpid())) break except OSError as e: if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise if (time.time() - start_time) >= self.timeout: try: pid = open(self.lockfile).read() except Exception: pid = "[error reading lockfile: %s]" % sys.exc_info()[0] raise FileLockException( "Timeout occured. (%s is locked by pid %s)" % (self.lockfile, pid) ) time.sleep(self.delay) self.is_locked = True FileLock.lock_count[self.lockfile] += 1 FileLock.lock_handles[self.lockfile] = self.fd def release(self): """ Get rid of the lock by deleting the lockfile. When working in a `with` statement, this gets automatically called at the end. """ if self.is_locked: self.is_locked = False FileLock.lock_count[self.lockfile] -= 1 if FileLock.lock_count[self.lockfile] == 0: os.close(self.fd) os.unlink(self.lockfile) del FileLock.lock_handles[self.lockfile] def __enter__(self): """ Activated when used in the with statement. Should automatically acquire a lock to be used in the with block. """ if not self.is_locked: self.acquire() return self def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): """ Activated at the end of the with statement. It automatically releases the lock if it isn't locked. """ if self.is_locked: self.release() def __del__(self): """ Make sure that the FileLock instance doesn't leave a lockfile lying around. """ self.release()