In the Python module errno the constant errno.EDEADLOCK is missing. According to the Python documentation EDEADLOCK is part of the module. The problem occurs when a process on a remote host runnning an OS as Linux returns EDEADLOCK. (I know EDEADLOCK is not Posix compatible and the Linux documentations says and it's synonym for EDEADLK, but Python allows to use it.) I think a mapping from EDEADLOCK to EDEADLK would be sufficent to solve the problem.
What is the problem, exactly? I don't believe you can send error codes from one machine to another and expect them to match. On FreeBSD just use errno.EDEADLK
(In reply to Gleb Popov from comment #1) Yes you are corect. And even on Linux `man 3 errno` tells: ``` EDEADLOCK On most architectures, a synonym for EDEADLK. On some architectures (e.g., Linux MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC), it is a separate error code "File locking deadlock error". ``` and in the errno file itself: ``` asm-generic/errno.h:#define EDEADLK 35 /* Resource deadlock would occur */ asm-generic/errno.h:#define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK ``` But it would be a lot more conveinient if it did exist and worked as expected. The problem of the requestor is not fixed with this, since on FreeBSD `EDEADLK` has value 11, so things will not work as expected. And sending error codes between FreeBSD and Linux will require translation for more than just this one. Then again Python claims that it errno.EDEADLOCK is there, so we should atleast fix that omission.
(In reply to Willem Jan Withagen from comment #2) > But it would be a lot more conveinient if it did exist and worked as expected. And what's expected in this case? I, for example, expect an undefined constant, because FreeBSD doesn't have EDEADLOCK code. > Then again Python claims that it errno.EDEADLOCK is there, Actually, at the top of https://docs.python.org/3/library/errno.html there is a following sentence: > Of the following list, symbols that are not used on the current platform are not defined by the module. The specific list of defined symbols is available as errno.errorcode.keys(). I think there is no bug here. At least, no FreeBSD-specific one. If the reporter believes that EDEADLOCK should be automatically mapped to something, the right thing is to open a PR on the Python bug tracker.
(In reply to Gleb Popov from comment #3) >> But it would be a lot more conveinient if it did exist and worked as expected. > And what's expected in this case? I, for example, expect an undefined constant, because FreeBSD doesn't have EDEADLOCK code. On FreeBSD I would errno.EDEADLOCK to be 11.... Like I said, that does not fix the problem of the submitter. We can call it whatever we want, but fixing this will cause less python code to crash on first execution, where then the user dives into the python code and does something to handle the lack of. Be it comment it out, if-def-ignore or whatever. And yes you are probably correct in suggestiing that this might have a better place at the python code itself. (Not to speak of getting it in cython)
I will close this PR, then. Stefan, if you want this to be fixed, try contacting upstream.