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+# © 2021 James R Barlow: https://github.com/jbarlow83
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+# copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+# SOFTWARE.
+
+"""Alternate executor to support OCRmyPDF in AWS Lambda"""
+
+
+import logging
+import logging.handlers
+import multiprocessing
+import os
+import queue
+import signal
+import sys
+import threading
+from contextlib import suppress
+from itertools import islice, repeat, takewhile, zip_longest
+from multiprocessing import Pipe, Process, process
+from multiprocessing.connection import Connection, wait
+from typing import Callable, Iterable, Optional, Union
+from unittest.mock import Mock
+
+from ocrmypdf import hookimpl
+from ocrmypdf.exceptions import InputFileError
+
+pool_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+
+def split_every(n: int, iterable: Iterable):
+    iterator = iter(iterable)
+    return takewhile(bool, (list(islice(iterator, n)) for _ in repeat(None)))
+
+
+def log_listener(q):
+    """Listen to the worker processes and forward the messages to logging
+
+    For simplicity this is a thread rather than a process. Only one process
+    should actually write to sys.stderr or whatever we're using, so if this is
+    made into a process the main application needs to be directed to it.
+
+    See https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#logging-to-a-single-file-from-multiple-processes
+    """
+
+    while True:
+        try:
+            record = q.get()
+            if record is None:
+                break
+            logger = logging.getLogger(record.name)
+            logger.handle(record)
+        except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
+            import traceback  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
+            print("Logging problem", file=sys.stderr)
+            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
+
+
+def process_sigbus(*args):
+    raise InputFileError("A worker process lost access to an input file")
+
+
+def process_loop(
+    conn: Connection, user_init: Callable[[], None], loglevel, task, task_args
+):
+    """Initialize a process pool worker"""
+
+    # Ignore SIGINT (our parent process will kill us gracefully)
+    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
+
+    # Install SIGBUS handler (so our parent process can abort somewhat gracefully)
+    with suppress(AttributeError):  # Windows and Cygwin do not have SIGBUS
+        # Windows and Cygwin do not have pthread_sigmask or SIGBUS
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGBUS, process_sigbus)
+
+    # Reconfigure the root logger for this process to send all messages to a queue
+    # h = logging.handlers.QueueHandler(q)
+    # root = logging.getLogger()
+    # root.setLevel(loglevel)
+    # root.handlers = []
+    # root.addHandler(h)
+
+    user_init()
+
+    for args in task_args:
+        try:
+            result = task(*args)
+        except Exception as e:
+            return  # for now
+        else:
+            conn.send(result)
+
+    conn.close()
+    return
+
+
+def exec_progress_pool(
+    *,
+    use_threads: bool,
+    max_workers: int,
+    tqdm_kwargs: dict,
+    worker_initializer: Optional[Callable],
+    task: Callable,
+    task_arguments: Optional[Iterable] = None,
+    task_finished: Callable,
+):
+
+    if not worker_initializer:
+
+        def _noop():
+            return
+
+        worker_initializer = _noop
+
+    with pool_lock:
+        _exec_progress_pool(
+            max_workers=max_workers,
+            worker_initializer=worker_initializer,
+            task=task,
+            task_arguments=task_arguments,
+            task_finished=task_finished,
+        )
+
+
+def _exec_progress_pool(
+    *,
+    max_workers: int,
+    worker_initializer: Callable,
+    task: Callable,
+    task_arguments: Optional[Iterable] = None,
+    task_finished: Callable,
+):
+    pbar = Mock()
+
+    task_arguments = list(task_arguments)
+    grouped_args = list(zip_longest(*list(split_every(max_workers, task_arguments))))
+
+    processes = []
+    connections = []
+    for n in range(max_workers):
+        parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
+
+        worker_args = [args for args in grouped_args[n] if args is not None]
+        process = Process(
+            target=process_loop,
+            args=(
+                child_conn,
+                worker_initializer,
+                logging.getLogger("").level,
+                task,
+                worker_args,
+            ),
+        )
+        process.daemon = True
+        processes.append(process)
+        connections.append(parent_conn)
+
+    for process in processes:
+        process.start()
+
+    while connections:
+        for r in wait(connections):
+            try:
+                msg = r.recv()
+            except EOFError:
+                connections.remove(r)
+            else:
+                if task_finished:
+                    task_finished(msg, pbar)
+
+    for process in processes:
+        process.join()
+
+
+@hookimpl
+def get_parallel_executor():
+    return exec_progress_pool