Instead of the logic branching create a table `._spawn._methods`
which is used to lookup the desired backend framework (in this case
still only one of `multiprocessing` or `trio`) and make the top level
`.new_proc()` do the lookup and any common logic. Use a `typing.Literal`
to define the lookup table's key set.
Repair and ignore a bunch of type-annot related stuff todo with `mypy`
updates and backend-specific process typing.
Adjust the `soft_wait()` strategy to avoid sending needless cancel
requests if it is known that a child process is already terminated or
does so before the cancel request times out. This should be no slower
and should avoid needless waits on either closure-in-progress or already
closed channels.
Basic strategy is,
- request child actor to cancel
- if process termination is detected, cancel the cancel
- if the process is still alive after a cancel request timeout warn the
user and yield back to the hard reap handling
This commit obviously denotes a re-license of all applicable parts of
the code base. Acknowledgement of this change was completed in #274 by
the majority of the current set of contributors. From here henceforth
all changes will be AGPL licensed and distributed. This is purely an
effort to maintain the same copy-left policy whilst closing the
(perceived) SaaS loophole the GPL allows for. It is merely for this
loophole: to avoid code hiding by any potential "network providers" who
are attempting to use the project to make a profit without either
compensating the authors or re-distributing their changes.
I thought quite a bit about this change and can't see a reason not to
close the SaaS loophole in our current license. We still are (hard)
copy-left and I plan to keep the code base this way for a couple
reasons:
- The code base produces income/profit through parent projects and is
demonstrably of high value.
- I believe firms should not get free lunch for the sake of
"contributions from their employees" or "usage as a service" which
I have found to be a dubious argument at best.
- If a firm who intends to profit from the code base wants to use it
they can propose a secondary commercial license to purchase with the
proceeds going to the project's authors under some form of well
defined contract.
- Many successful projects like Qt use this model; I see no reason it
can't work in this case until such a time as the authors feel it
should be loosened.
There has been detailed discussion in #103 on licensing alternatives.
The main point of this AGPL change is to protect the code base for the
time being from exploitation while it grows and as we move into the next
phase of development which will include extension into the multi-host
distributed software space.
We don't need to any more presuming you get ideal remote cancellation
conditions where the remote actor should teardown and kill the streams
from its end.
It's definitely possible to have a nursery spawn task be cancelled
before a `trio.Process` handle is ever returned; we now handle this
case as a cancelled-during-spawn scenario. Zombie collection logic
also is bypassed in this case.
This is actually surprisingly easy to grok having gone through a lot of
pain understanding edge cases in the zombie lord dev branch. Basically
we just need to make sure actors are managed in a 2 step reap sequence.
In the "soft" reap phase we wait for the process to terminate on its own
concurrently with (maybe) waiting for its portal's final result (if it's
a `.run_in_actor()`). If this path is cancelled or errors, then we do
a "hard" reap where we timeout and send a signal to the proc to
terminate immediately. The only last remaining trick is to tie in the
root-is-debugger-aware logic to yet again avoid tty clobbers.
If the root calls `trio.Process.kill()` on immediate child proc teardown
when the child is using pdb, we can get stdstreams clobbering that
results in a pdb++ repl where the user can't see what's been typed. Not
killing such children on cancellation / error seems to resolve this
issue whilst still giving reliable termination. For now, code that
special path until a time it becomes a problem for ensuring zombie
reaps.
It's clear now that special attention is needed to handle the case where
a spawned `multiprocessing` proc is started but then the parent is
cancelled before the child can connect back; in this case we need to be
sure to kill the near-zombie child asap. This may end up being the
solution to other resiliency issues seen around mp with nested process
trees too. More testing is needed to be sure.
Relates to #84#89#134#146
Tyler Goodlet