Work around lock failure on cygwin.
This is really bad but the lock is never held for a long time so it 'should' work.
R=dpranke@chromium.org
BUG=
TEST=
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/8253008
git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/tools/depot_tools@105195 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
diff --git a/gclient_utils.py b/gclient_utils.py
index 235d414..39fb2f6 100644
--- a/gclient_utils.py
+++ b/gclient_utils.py
@@ -481,7 +481,14 @@
def __init__(self, name):
# A unique string representing this work item.
self._name = name
- self.lock = threading.RLock()
+ try:
+ self.lock = threading.Lock()
+ except: # pylint: disable=W0702
+ if sys.platform != 'cygwin':
+ raise
+ # On cygwin, it's throwing randomly. Hack and reuse the single
+ # sys.stdout.lock. Yep you read it right. Single lock.
+ self.lock = sys.stdout.lock
def run(self, work_queue):
"""work_queue is passed as keyword argument so it should be