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The problem here was the method how MTR gets its unique thread ids.
Prior to this patch, the method to do it was to maintain a global
table of pid,mtr_unique_id) pairs. The table was backed by a text
file. The table was cleaned up one in a while and dead processes leaking
unique_ids were determined with with kill(0) or with scripting tasklist
on Windows.
This method is flawed specifically on native Windows Perl. fork() is
implemented with starting a new thread, give it a syntetic negative PID
(threadID*(-1)), until this thread creates a new process with exec()
However, neither tasklist nor any other native Windows tool can cope with
negative perl PIDs. This lead to incorrect determination of dead process
and reusing already used mtr_unique_id.
The patch introduces alternative portable method of solving unique-id
problem. When a process needs a unique id in range [min...max], it just
starts to open files named min, min+1,...max in a loop . After file is
opened, we do non-blocking flock(). When flock() succeeds, process has
allocated the ID. When process dies, file is unlocked . Checks for zombies
are not necessary.
Since the change would create a co-existence problems with older version
of MTR, because of different way to calculate IDs, the default ID range
is changed from 250-299 to 300-349.
Another fix that was necessary enable --parallel option was to serialize
spawn() calls on Windows. specifically, IO redirects needed to be protected.
This patch also fixes hanging CRTL-C (as described in Bug #38629) for the
"new" MTR. The fix was already in 6.0 and is now downported.
