I want mode="w" (i.e. text, with newline conversion) for code that
writes newline-terminated strings (which should also be human readable)
to files. I like to use things like "cat .tahoe/permutation-seed"
without seeing the seed jammed together with the next command prompt.
Previously, test_runner sometimes fails because the _node_has_started()
poller fires after the portnum file has been opened, but before it has
actually been filled, allowing the test process to observe an empty file,
which flunks the test.
This adds a new fileutil.write_atomically() function (using the usual
write-to-.tmp-then-rename approach), and uses it for both node.url and
client.port . These files are written a bit before the node is really up and
running, but they're late enough for test_runner's purposes, which is to know
when it's safe to read client.port and use 'tahoe restart' (and therefore
SIGINT) to restart the node.
The current node/client code doesn't offer any better "are you really done
with startup" indicator.. the ideal approach would be to either watch the
logfile, or connect to its flogport, but both are a hassle. Changing the node
to write out a new "all done" file would be intrusive for regular
operations.
This introduces new client and server halves to the Introducer (renaming the
old one with a _V1 suffix). Both have fallbacks to accomodate talking to a
different version: the publishing client switches on whether the server's
.get_version() advertises V2 support, the server switches on which
subscription method was invoked by the subscribing client.
The V2 protocol sends a three-tuple of (serialized announcement dictionary,
signature, pubkey) for each announcement. The V2 server dispatches messages
to subscribers according to the service-name, and throws errors for invalid
signatures, but does not otherwise examine the messages. The V2 receiver's
subscription callback will receive a (serverid, ann_dict) pair. The
'serverid' will be equal to the pubkey if all of the following are true:
the originating client is V2, and was told a privkey to use
the announcement went through a V2 server
the signature is valid
If not, 'serverid' will be equal to the tubid portion of the announced FURL,
as was the case for V1 receivers.
Servers will create a keypair if one does not exist yet, stored in
private/server.privkey .
The signed announcement dictionary puts the server FURL in a key named
"anonymous-storage-FURL", which anticipates upcoming Accounting-related
changes in the server advertisements. It also provides a key named
"permutation-seed-base32" to tell clients what permutation seed to use. This
is computed at startup, using tubid if there are existing shares, otherwise
the pubkey, to retain share-order compatibility for existing servers.
Check for the existence of any of them and if any are found raise exception which will abort the startup of the node.
This is a backwards-incompatible change for anyone who is still using old-style configuration files.
fixes#1385
both peter and I independently tried to do the same thing to eliminate the
authorized_keys file which was causing problems with the broken mac build
(c.f. #522) namely mv authorized_keys.8223{,.bak} but the node is, ahem,
let's say 'intolerant' of the trailing .bak - rather than disable the
manhole as one might expect, it instead causes the node to explode on
startup. this patch makes it skip over anything that doesn't pass the
'parse this trailing stuff as an int' test.
1. changed the node's exit-on-error behaviour. rather than logging debug and
then delegating to self for _abort_process() instead simply delegate to self
_service_startup_failed(failure) to report failures in the startup deferred
chain. subclasses then have complete control of handling and reporting any
failures in node startup.
2. replace the convoluted wx.PostEvent() glue for posting an event into the
gui thread with the simpler expedient of wx.CallAfter() which is much like
foolscap's eventually() but also thread safe for inducing a call back on the
gui thread.
in certain cases (e.g. the node.pem changed but old .furls are in private/)
the node will abort upon startup. previously it used os.abort() which in these
cases caused the mac gui app to crash on startup with no explanation.
this changes that behaviour from calling os.abort() to calling
node._abort_process(failure) which by default calls os.abort(). this allows
that method to be overridden in subclasses.
the mac app now provides and uses such a subclass of Client, so that failures
are reported to the user in a message dialog before the process exits.
this uses wx.PostEvent() with a custom event type to signal from the reactor
thread into the gui thread.
* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories
* provide UI to them through the web server
* provide UI to them through the CLI
* update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them
* remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof
* remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example)
* add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1.
* add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!)
* fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you).
* fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge
* sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
This creates a Referenceable object that will eventually be able to publish
log events to a remote subscriber (at present all it can do is provide
version information). The FURL for this logport is written to 'logport.furl'.
In addition, if a file named 'log_gatherer.furl' is present, the given target
will be contacted and offered access to the logport. This can be used by a
centralized logging agent to subscribe to logs, e.g. from all the nodes in a
centrally-maintained storage grid. (think syslog -r, but with all the
security properties of FURLs, and permitting non-printable strings and
structured data).
Once this framework matures a bit, it will be moved into Foolscap.
The unit tests on Windows fail because trial is attempting to remove its own
log observer during teardown. This patch customizes the extant log observer
object by replacing its formatTime method with our own.
I first tried the approach of storing their log observer object and putting it
back during teardown, but it didn't work (perhaps because our node object
doesn't get a chance to do its deferred stopService behavior in time), and
anyway I generally prefer the "fail-safe", or "crash-only" design.
Rather than use separate client.pem and introducer.pem files, use 'node.pem'
for all nodes regardless of what type it is. This is slightly cleaner, but
introduces a compatibility. Users who upgrade to this change should do
'mv client.pem node.pem' to avoid generating a new certificate and thus
changing their TubID.
This is a potentially disruptive and potentially ugly change to the code base,
because I renamed the object that serves in both roles from "Queen" to
"IntroducerAndVdrive", which is a bit of an ugly name.
However, I think that clarity is important enough in this release to make this
change. All unit tests pass. I'm now darcs recording this patch in order to
pull it to other machines for more testing.
