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authorLorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@baserock.org>2014-02-21 04:46:49 +0000
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+# Python modules
+import time
+import mmap
+import os
+import sys
+PY_MAJOR_VERSION = sys.version_info[0]
+# hashlib is only available in Python >= 2.5. I still want to support
+# older Pythons so I import md5 if hashlib is not available. Fortunately
+# md5 can masquerade as hashlib for my purposes.
+try:
+ import hashlib
+except ImportError:
+ import md5 as hashlib
+
+# 3rd party modules
+import posix_ipc
+
+# Utils for this demo
+import utils
+
+
+PY_MAJOR_VERSION = sys.version_info[0]
+
+utils.say("Oooo 'ello, I'm Mrs. Conclusion!")
+
+params = utils.read_params()
+
+# Mrs. Premise has already created the semaphore and shared memory.
+# I just need to get handles to them.
+memory = posix_ipc.SharedMemory(params["SHARED_MEMORY_NAME"])
+semaphore = posix_ipc.Semaphore(params["SEMAPHORE_NAME"])
+
+# MMap the shared memory
+mapfile = mmap.mmap(memory.fd, memory.size)
+
+# Once I've mmapped the file descriptor, I can close it without
+# interfering with the mmap. This also demonstrates that os.close() is a
+# perfectly legitimate alternative to the SharedMemory's close_fd() method.
+os.close(memory.fd)
+
+what_i_wrote = ""
+
+for i in range(0, params["ITERATIONS"]):
+ utils.say("iteration %d" % i)
+ if not params["LIVE_DANGEROUSLY"]:
+ # Wait for Mrs. Premise to free up the semaphore.
+ utils.say("Waiting to acquire the semaphore")
+ semaphore.acquire()
+
+ s = utils.read_from_memory(mapfile)
+
+ while s == what_i_wrote:
+ if not params["LIVE_DANGEROUSLY"]:
+ # Release the semaphore...
+ utils.say("Releasing the semaphore")
+ semaphore.release()
+ # ...and wait for it to become available again.
+ utils.say("Waiting to acquire the semaphore")
+ semaphore.acquire()
+
+ s = utils.read_from_memory(mapfile)
+
+ if what_i_wrote:
+ if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2:
+ what_i_wrote = what_i_wrote.encode()
+ try:
+ assert(s == hashlib.md5(what_i_wrote).hexdigest())
+ except AssertionError:
+ utils.raise_error(AssertionError,
+ "Shared memory corruption after %d iterations." % i)
+
+ if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2:
+ s = s.encode()
+ what_i_wrote = hashlib.md5(s).hexdigest()
+
+ utils.write_to_memory(mapfile, what_i_wrote)
+
+ if not params["LIVE_DANGEROUSLY"]:
+ utils.say("Releasing the semaphore")
+ semaphore.release()
+
+semaphore.close()
+mapfile.close()
+
+utils.say("")
+utils.say("%d iterations complete" % (i + 1))