X-Git-Url: http://xvm.mit.edu/gitweb/invirt/packages/invirt-base.git/blobdiff_plain/b8c4bdf48d61f3c1eb6b835d51c91fd4cf4f370f..ff3dc91d38ee542dbb79c94ac910b43c2985b58e:/files/usr/share/python-support/sipb-xen-base/invirt/common.py

diff --git a/files/usr/share/python-support/sipb-xen-base/invirt/common.py b/files/usr/share/python-support/sipb-xen-base/invirt/common.py
index 250078e..ca90714 100644
--- a/files/usr/share/python-support/sipb-xen-base/invirt/common.py
+++ b/files/usr/share/python-support/sipb-xen-base/invirt/common.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import unittest
+from fcntl import flock, LOCK_EX, LOCK_UN
+from os import remove
 
 class struct(object):
     'A simple namespace object.'
-    def __init__(self, d = {}):
+    def __init__(self, d = {}, **kwargs):
         'd is the dictionary to update my __dict__ with.'
         self.__dict__.update(d)
+        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
 
 def dicts2struct(x):
     """
@@ -18,10 +21,41 @@ def dicts2struct(x):
     else:
         return x
 
-def wrap(rsrc, func):
-    "Utility to that emulates with Python 2.5's `with closing(rsrc)`."
-    try: return func(rsrc)
-    finally: rsrc.close()
+#
+# Hacks to work around lack of Python 2.5's `with` statement.
+#
+
+def with_closing(rsrc):
+    "Utility to emulate Python 2.5's `with closing(rsrc)` context manager."
+    def wrapper(func):
+        try: return func(rsrc)
+        finally: rsrc.close()
+    return wrapper
+
+def with_lock_file(path):
+    """
+    Context manager for lock files.  Example:
+
+    @with_lock_file('/tmp/mylock')
+    def input():
+        print 'locked'
+        return raw_input()
+    # decorator is executed immediately
+    print input # prints the input text
+    """
+    def wrapper(func):
+        @with_closing(file(path, 'w'))
+        def g(f):
+            flock(f, LOCK_EX)
+            try: return func()
+            finally: flock(f, LOCK_UN)
+        remove(path)
+        return g
+    return wrapper
+
+#
+# Tests.
+#
 
 class common_tests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_dicts2structs(self):