stdlib: Add file lock to the resources.json download
There have been failures on the weekly tests during the decoding of the
downloaded resources.json base64 file. These errors suggested an
incomplete download or some form of file corruption. These errors only
ever seem to occur when multiple threads of gem5 are running. It has
therefore been proposed that perhaps, in some cases, the cached
downloaded file was bring re-downloaded while also being read by
another thread. For this reason this patch adds a filelock so only one
instance of gem5, at any one time, can download and read the
resources.json file. Even if this is not the cause of the weekly test
errors, it still adds some additional safeguards.
Change-Id: I7c6e1c1786c1919e8519587e53b6a77f4aafa932
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/57789
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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