scons: Monkey patch os.spawnve on Windows to become thread safe.

See also:
- http://bugs.python.org/issue6476
- http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2449

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scons/fixes.py b/scons/fixes.py
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+import sys
+
+# Monkey patch os.spawnve on windows to become thread safe
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import os
+    import threading
+    from os import spawnve as old_spawnve
+
+    spawn_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def new_spawnve(mode, file, args, env):
+        spawn_lock.acquire()
+        try:
+            if mode == os.P_WAIT:
+                ret = old_spawnve(os.P_NOWAIT, file, args, env)
+            else:
+                ret = old_spawnve(mode, file, args, env)
+        finally:
+            spawn_lock.release()
+        if mode == os.P_WAIT:
+            pid, status = os.waitpid(ret, 0)
+            ret = status >> 8
+        return ret
+
+    os.spawnve = new_spawnve
+
+