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Check signals during unbounded FileIO reads - #9571

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Summary

  • Replace unbounded _io.FileIO.read() use of read_to_end, whose internal EINTR retry prevents Python signal handlers from running while a pipe remains open, with individual reads through the existing signal-aware helper.
  • Preserve EOF and nonblocking behavior: return None when no data is available and return accumulated bytes when a later read would block. Use checked, amortized buffer growth and release unused capacity.

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  • Independent source review covered EINTR and signal exceptions, nonblocking and partial reads, checked allocation growth, and the shared host read path. Normal commit hooks and rustfmt passed.
  • No native RustPython build or runtime test ran locally because the required coordinated native execution guard was unavailable. Hosted CI must validate this head, especially test_file_eintr and test_io FileIO EOF and nonblocking cases.
  • Ubuntu and macOS CI both observed CTestFileIOSignalInterrupt.test_readall passing. Retired its stale expected-failure marker through scripts/update_lib using those exact-head results, without changing the inherited test body. The auto-mark helper's 50 unit tests, AST equivalence check, formatting, and normal commit hooks passed; fresh CI must validate the updated head.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Reading a file without a specified size now handles interruptions and end-of-file more reliably. If a read would block before any data is available, it returns no result; if some data has already been read, it returns the available bytes.
    • Large reads now check size limits and report allocation failures instead of exceeding supported byte-object limits.

Use individual reads for the unbounded FileIO path so interrupted syscalls run Python signal handlers before retrying. Preserve EOF and nonblocking partial-read behavior with checked buffer growth.

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Unbounded FileIO.read() now reads through repeated single-read operations. It grows the buffer as needed, handles EOF and EAGAIN, and reports capacity overflow and allocation failure.

Changes: Unbounded FileIO reads

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Incremental read and buffer handling
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_io.rs
Unbounded FileIO.read() uses repeated read_once_into calls and grows its buffer. It returns None on EAGAIN when no bytes were read, or returns the accumulated bytes. EOF ends the read. Capacity overflow and allocation failure raise Python errors.

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Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review a7d36

The incremental reads improve signal handling after interrupted reads. The remaining successful-read signal delay predates this change. Merge after normal checks, including the FileIO signal, EOF, and nonblocking tests.

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Minor follow-up Check pending Python signals after each successful read.

6435-6436: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Check pending Python signals after each successful read.

The unbounded read loop calls FileIO::read_once_into repeatedly, but only the EINTR branch of that helper calls vm.check_signals(). vm.allow_threads does not dispatch signals either. A stream that keeps returning data never reaches EINTR, EAGAIN, or EOF, so a pending signal such as SIGINT stays undispatched until the stream ends. Call vm.check_signals()? after each successful read.

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                     match FileIO::read_once_into(zelf, handle, &mut bytes[used..], vm)? {
                         Some(0) => break,
-                        Some(n) => used += n,
+                        Some(n) => {
+                            used += n;
+                            vm.check_signals()?;
+                        }
                         None if used == 0 => return Ok(None),
                         None => break,
                     }

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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/stdlib/_io.rs around lines 6435 - 6436:
In the unbounded read loop using FileIO::read_once_into, check pending signals
after each successful read that returns data, while preserving the existing EOF
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.map_err(|_| vm.no_memory_error())?;
bytes.resize(size, 0);
}
match FileIO::read_once_into(zelf, handle, &mut bytes[used..], vm)? {

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P1 Badge Retire the expected-failure marker for the repaired EINTR test

On POSIX, the signal-aware call now lets the read() phase of CTestFileIOSignalInterrupt.test_readall complete, but Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py:189 still decorates the entire test with @unittest.expectedFailure. Consequently, a correct run is recorded as an unexpected success, which Lib/unittest/result.py::wasSuccessful and the regrtest runner treat as a failing suite. Validate the repaired test and remove its obsolete decorator/TODO alongside this fix so that test_file_eintr can pass.

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📦 Library Dependencies

The following Lib/ modules were modified. Here are their dependencies:

[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_file_eintr.py

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dependent tests: (no tests depend on file_eintr)

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