diff -r b4b6ff83ed9c -r 3862de62d5cf mercurial/chgserver.py --- a/mercurial/chgserver.py Thu Jul 02 19:54:44 2020 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/chgserver.py Fri Jul 03 13:45:59 2020 +0530 @@ -442,7 +442,20 @@ if newfp is not fp: newfp.close() # restore original fd: fp is open again - os.dup2(fd, fp.fileno()) + try: + os.dup2(fd, fp.fileno()) + except OSError as err: + # According to issue6330, running chg on heavy loaded systems + # can lead to EBUSY. [man dup2] indicates that, on Linux, + # EBUSY comes from a race condition between open() and dup2(). + # However it's not clear why open() race occurred for + # newfd=stdin/out/err. + self.ui.log( + b'chgserver', + b'got %s while duplicating %s\n', + stringutil.forcebytestr(err), + fn, + ) os.close(fd) setattr(self, cn, ch) setattr(ui, fn, fp)