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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+import platform
+import select
+
+from Queue import Queue
+from threading import Thread
+
+
+def isWindows():
+  """ Returns True when running with the native port of Python for Windows,
+  False when running on any other platform (including the Cygwin port of
+  Python).
+  """
+  # Note: The cygwin port of Python returns "CYGWIN_NT_xxx"
+  return platform.system() == "Windows"
+
+
+class FileDescriptorStreams(object):
+  """ Platform agnostic abstraction enabling non-blocking I/O over a
+  collection of file descriptors. This abstraction is required because
+  fctnl(os.O_NONBLOCK) is not supported on Windows.
+  """
+  @classmethod
+  def create(cls):
+    """ Factory method: instantiates the concrete class according to the
+    current platform.
+    """
+    if isWindows():
+      return _FileDescriptorStreamsThreads()
+    else:
+      return _FileDescriptorStreamsNonBlocking()
+
+  def __init__(self):
+    self.streams = []
+
+  def add(self, fd, dest, std_name):
+    """ Wraps an existing file descriptor as a stream.
+    """
+    self.streams.append(self._create_stream(fd, dest, std_name))
+
+  def remove(self, stream):
+    """ Removes a stream, when done with it.
+    """
+    self.streams.remove(stream)
+
+  @property
+  def is_done(self):
+    """ Returns True when all streams have been processed.
+    """
+    return len(self.streams) == 0
+
+  def select(self):
+    """ Returns the set of streams that have data available to read.
+    The returned streams each expose a read() and a close() method.
+    When done with a stream, call the remove(stream) method.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError
+
+  def _create_stream(fd, dest, std_name):
+    """ Creates a new stream wrapping an existing file descriptor.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class _FileDescriptorStreamsNonBlocking(FileDescriptorStreams):
+  """ Implementation of FileDescriptorStreams for platforms that support
+  non blocking I/O.
+  """
+  class Stream(object):
+    """ Encapsulates a file descriptor """
+    def __init__(self, fd, dest, std_name):
+      self.fd = fd
+      self.dest = dest
+      self.std_name = std_name
+      self.set_non_blocking()
+
+    def set_non_blocking(self):
+      import fcntl
+      flags = fcntl.fcntl(self.fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
+      fcntl.fcntl(self.fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, flags | os.O_NONBLOCK)
+
+    def fileno(self):
+      return self.fd.fileno()
+
+    def read(self):
+      return self.fd.read(4096)
+
+    def close(self):
+      self.fd.close()
+
+  def _create_stream(self, fd, dest, std_name):
+    return self.Stream(fd, dest, std_name)
+
+  def select(self):
+    ready_streams, _, _ = select.select(self.streams, [], [])
+    return ready_streams
+
+
+class _FileDescriptorStreamsThreads(FileDescriptorStreams):
+  """ Implementation of FileDescriptorStreams for platforms that don't support
+  non blocking I/O. This implementation requires creating threads issuing
+  blocking read operations on file descriptors.
+  """
+  def __init__(self):
+    super(_FileDescriptorStreamsThreads, self).__init__()
+    # The queue is shared accross all threads so we can simulate the
+    # behavior of the select() function
+    self.queue = Queue(10)  # Limit incoming data from streams
+
+  def _create_stream(self, fd, dest, std_name):
+    return self.Stream(fd, dest, std_name, self.queue)
+
+  def select(self):
+    # Return only one stream at a time, as it is the most straighforward
+    # thing to do and it is compatible with the select() function.
+    item = self.queue.get()
+    stream = item.stream
+    stream.data = item.data
+    return [stream]
+
+  class QueueItem(object):
+    """ Item put in the shared queue """
+    def __init__(self, stream, data):
+      self.stream = stream
+      self.data = data
+
+  class Stream(object):
+    """ Encapsulates a file descriptor """
+    def __init__(self, fd, dest, std_name, queue):
+      self.fd = fd
+      self.dest = dest
+      self.std_name = std_name
+      self.queue = queue
+      self.data = None
+      self.thread = Thread(target=self.read_to_queue)
+      self.thread.daemon = True
+      self.thread.start()
+
+    def close(self):
+      self.fd.close()
+
+    def read(self):
+      data = self.data
+      self.data = None
+      return data
+
+    def read_to_queue(self):
+      """ The thread function: reads everything from the file descriptor into
+      the shared queue and terminates when reaching EOF.
+      """
+      for line in iter(self.fd.readline, b''):
+        self.queue.put(_FileDescriptorStreamsThreads.QueueItem(self, line))
+      self.fd.close()
+      self.queue.put(_FileDescriptorStreamsThreads.QueueItem(self, None))