lockf() is available now on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined

[xdegaye]

BPO	28762
Nosy	@vstinner, @xdegaye, @yan12125
PRs	[Do Not Merge] Convert Misc/NEWS so that it is managed by towncrier #552 bpo-28762: Revert last commit (now using Android Unified Headers) #4488
Files	test_posix_flock.patch test_posix_lockf_2.patch

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assignee = 'https://github.com/xdegaye'
closed_at = <Date 2017-11-23.11:02:01.392>
created_at = <Date 2016-11-21.10:19:49.471>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-bug', '3.7']
title = 'lockf() is available now on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined'
updated_at = <Date 2017-11-23.11:02:01.391>
user = 'https://github.com/xdegaye'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue28762'
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[xdegaye]

The patch fixes the following error:

======================================================================
ERROR: test_lockf (test.test_posix.PosixTester)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sdcard/org.bitbucket.pyona/lib/python3.7/test/test_posix.py", line 195, in test_lockf
    posix.lockf(fd, posix.F_LOCK, 4)
AttributeError: module 'posix' has no attribute 'F_LOCK'

[yan12125]

FYI: Since Android NDK r14 beta1, F_LOCK is defined in unified headers. [1] In $ANDROID_NDK/sysroot/usr/include/bits/lockf.h:

#define F_ULOCK 0
#define F_LOCK 1
#define F_TLOCK 2
#define F_TEST 3

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/master/docs/UnifiedHeaders.md

[vstinner]

The patch fixes the following error:

Do you mean that the patch adds posix.F_LOCK constant on Android?

[xdegaye]

No, the patch prevents posix.flock() to be defined on Android API 24 with android-ndk-r13. But I plan to change it so that the test is skipped when posix does not have the F_LOCK attribute as this problem is not worth a change in the build machinery. It makes even more sense now that android-ndk-r14 will be released with "Unified Headers". BTW thanks Chi Hsuan Yen for this important information.

[vstinner]

Oh ok, the issue is more subtle than what I understood.

I reviewed test_posix_flock.patch and proposed some changes to the comment/doc.

[xdegaye]

Thanks for the review Victor.

I have created bpo-29040: building Android with android-ndk-r14.

[xdegaye]

New patch.
Please use autoreconf before running the patch (autoreconf instead of autoconf because the description of HAVE_LOCKF has been updated).

[vstinner]

The new patch now looks good to me.

[python-dev]

New changeset 51b09b10d4f8 by Xavier de Gaye in branch '3.6':
Issue bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/51b09b10d4f8

New changeset 146157d91283 by Xavier de Gaye in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-28762: Merge 3.6.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/146157d91283