This fixes issues with paths being loaded twice in certain cases
when symlinks are used.
It took me multiple attempts to get this working. My original
attempt tried to convert paths to realpaths before adding them
to $LOADED_FEATURES. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well
with the loaded feature index, which is based off load paths
and not realpaths. While I was able to get require working, I'm
fairly sure the loaded feature index was not being used as
expected, which would have significant performance implications.
Additionally, I was never able to get that approach working with
autoload when autoloading a non-realpath file. It also broke
some specs.
This takes a more conservative approach. Directly before loading the
file, if the file with the same realpath has been required, the
loading of the file is skipped. The realpaths are stored as
fstrings in a hidden hash.
When rebuilding the loaded feature index, the hash of realpaths
is also rebuilt. I'm guessing this makes rebuilding process
slower, but I don think that is a hot path. In general, modifying
loaded features is only done when reloading, and that tends to be
in non-production environments.
Change test_require_with_loaded_features_pop test to use 30 threads
and 300 iterations, instead of 4 threads and 1000 iterations.
I saw only sporadic failures with 4/1000, but consistent failures
30/300 threads. These failures were due to the fact that the
concurrent deletions from $LOADED_FEATURES in other threads can
result in rb_ary_entry returning nil when rebuilding the loaded
features index.
To avoid concurrency issues when rebuilding the loaded features
index, the building of the index itself is left alone, and
afterwards, a separate loop is done on a copy of the loaded feature
snapshot in order to rebuild the realpaths hash.
Fixes [Bug #17885]