gh-129200: Add locking to the iOS testbed startup sequence.

Makefile.pre.in

@@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ testuniversal: all
 # a full Xcode install that has an iPhone SE (3rd edition) simulator available.
 # This must be run *after* a `make install` has completed the build. The
 # `--with-framework-name` argument *cannot* be used when configuring the build.
-XCFOLDER:=iOSTestbed.$(MULTIARCH).$(shell date +%s)
+XCFOLDER:=iOSTestbed.$(MULTIARCH).$(shell date +%s).$$PPID
 .PHONY: testios
 testios:
 	@if test "$(MACHDEP)" != "ios"; then \

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2025-02-26-15-10-16.gh-issue-129200.XH4TeC.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Multiple iOS testbed runners can now be started at the same time without
+introducing an ambiguity over simulator ownership.

iOS/testbed/__main__.py

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 import argparse
 import asyncio
+import fcntl
 import json
+import os
 import plistlib
 import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
+import tempfile
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -36,6 +39,46 @@ class MySystemExit(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+class SimulatorLock:
+    # An fcntl-based filesystem lock that can be used to ensure that
+    def __init__(self, timeout):
+        self.filename = Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / "python-ios-testbed"
+        self.timeout = timeout
+
+        self.fd = None
+
+    async def acquire(self):
+        # Ensure the lockfile exists
+        self.filename.touch(exist_ok=True)
+
+        # Try `timeout` times to acquire the lock file, with a 1 second pause
+        # between each attempt. Report status every 10 seconds.
+        for i in range(0, self.timeout):
+            try:
+                fd = os.open(self.filename, os.O_RDWR | os.O_TRUNC, 0o644)
+                fcntl.flock(fd, fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)
+            except OSError:
+                os.close(fd)
+                if i % 10 == 0:
+                    print("... waiting", flush=True)
+                await asyncio.sleep(1)
+            else:
+                self.fd = fd
+                return
+
+        # If we reach the end of the loop, we've exceeded the allowed number of
+        # attempts.
+        raise ValueError("Unable to obtain lock on iOS simulator creation")
+
+    def release(self):
+        # If a lock is held, release it.
+        if self.fd is not None:
+            # Release the lock.
+            fcntl.flock(self.fd, fcntl.LOCK_UN)
+            os.close(self.fd)
+            self.fd = None
+
+
 # All subprocesses are executed through this context manager so that no matter
 # what happens, they can always be cancelled from another task, and they will
 # always be cleaned up on exit.
@@ -107,23 +150,24 @@ async def list_devices():
             raise
 
 
-async def find_device(initial_devices):
+async def find_device(initial_devices, lock):
     while True:
         new_devices = set(await list_devices()).difference(initial_devices)
         if len(new_devices) == 0:
             await asyncio.sleep(1)
         elif len(new_devices) == 1:
             udid = new_devices.pop()
             print(f"{datetime.now():%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}: New test simulator detected")
-            print(f"UDID: {udid}")
+            print(f"UDID: {udid}", flush=True)
+            lock.release()
             return udid
         else:
             exit(f"Found more than one new device: {new_devices}")
 
 
-async def log_stream_task(initial_devices):
+async def log_stream_task(initial_devices, lock):
     # Wait up to 5 minutes for the build to complete and the simulator to boot.
-    udid = await asyncio.wait_for(find_device(initial_devices), 5 * 60)
+    udid = await asyncio.wait_for(find_device(initial_devices, lock), 5 * 60)
 
     # Stream the iOS device's logs, filtering out messages that come from the
     # XCTest test suite (catching NSLog messages from the test method), or
@@ -171,7 +215,7 @@ async def log_stream_task(initial_devices):
 
 async def xcode_test(location, simulator, verbose):
     # Run the test suite on the named simulator
-    print("Starting xcodebuild...")
+    print("Starting xcodebuild...", flush=True)
     args = [
         "xcodebuild",
         "test",
@@ -331,7 +375,17 @@ async def run_testbed(simulator: str, args: list[str], verbose: bool=False):
     location = Path(__file__).parent
     print("Updating plist...", end="", flush=True)
     update_plist(location, args)
-    print(" done.")
+    print(" done.", flush=True)
+
+    # We need to get an exclusive lock on simulator creation, to avoid issues
+    # with multiple simulators starting and being unable to tell which
+    # simulator is due to which testbed instance. See
+    # https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/130294 for details. Wait up to
+    # 10 minutes for a simulator to boot.
+    print("Obtaining lock on simulator creation...", flush=True)
+    simulator_lock = SimulatorLock(timeout=10*60)
+    await simulator_lock.acquire()
+    print("Simulator lock acquired.", flush=True)
 
     # Get the list of devices that are booted at the start of the test run.
     # The simulator started by the test suite will be detected as the new
@@ -340,13 +394,15 @@ async def run_testbed(simulator: str, args: list[str], verbose: bool=False):
 
     try:
         async with asyncio.TaskGroup() as tg:
-            tg.create_task(log_stream_task(initial_devices))
+            tg.create_task(log_stream_task(initial_devices, simulator_lock))
             tg.create_task(xcode_test(location, simulator=simulator, verbose=verbose))
     except* MySystemExit as e:
         raise SystemExit(*e.exceptions[0].args) from None
     except* subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         # Extract it from the ExceptionGroup so it can be handled by `main`.
         raise e.exceptions[0]
+    finally:
+        simulator_lock.release()
 
 
 def main():