#!/usr/bin/python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # input-remapper - GUI for device specific keyboard mappings # Copyright (C) 2022 sezanzeb # # This file is part of input-remapper. # # input-remapper is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # input-remapper is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with input-remapper. If not, see . """Share a dictionary across processes.""" import atexit import multiprocessing import select from inputremapper.logger import logger class SharedDict: """Share a dictionary across processes.""" # because unittests terminate all child processes in cleanup I can't use # multiprocessing.Manager def __init__(self): """Create a shared dictionary.""" super().__init__() # To avoid blocking forever if something goes wrong. The maximum # observed time communication takes was 0.001 for me on a slow pc self._timeout = 0.02 self.pipe = multiprocessing.Pipe() self.process = None atexit.register(self._stop) def start(self): """Ensure the process to manage the dictionary is running.""" if self.process is not None and self.process.is_alive(): logger.debug("SharedDict process already running") return # if the manager has already been running in the past but stopped # for some reason, the dictionary contents are lost. logger.debug("Starting SharedDict process") self.process = multiprocessing.Process(target=self.manage) self.process.start() def manage(self): """Manage the dictionary, handle read and write requests.""" logger.debug("SharedDict process started") shared_dict = {} while True: message = self.pipe[0].recv() logger.debug("SharedDict got %s", message) if message[0] == "stop": return if message[0] == "set": shared_dict[message[1]] = message[2] if message[0] == "clear": shared_dict.clear() if message[0] == "get": self.pipe[0].send(shared_dict.get(message[1])) if message[0] == "ping": self.pipe[0].send("pong") def _stop(self): """Stop the managing process.""" self.pipe[1].send(("stop",)) def _clear(self): """Clears the memory.""" self.pipe[1].send(("clear",)) def get(self, key): """Get a value from the dictionary. If it doesn't exist, returns None. """ return self.__getitem__(key) def is_alive(self, timeout=None): """Check if the manager process is running.""" self.pipe[1].send(("ping",)) select.select([self.pipe[1]], [], [], timeout or self._timeout) if self.pipe[1].poll(): return self.pipe[1].recv() == "pong" return False def __setitem__(self, key, value): self.pipe[1].send(("set", key, value)) def __getitem__(self, key): self.pipe[1].send(("get", key)) select.select([self.pipe[1]], [], [], self._timeout) if self.pipe[1].poll(): return self.pipe[1].recv() logger.error("select.select timed out") return None def __del__(self): self._stop()