If only reading the mmap file, open in read-only mode.

coderanger · web-flow · commit d4fb40507f8f · 2018-09-20T20:28:24.000-07:00
Signed-off-by: Noah Kantrowitz &lt;noah@coderanger.net&gt;
diff --git a/prometheus_client/core.py b/prometheus_client/core.py
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ class _MmapedDict(object):
     Not thread safe.
     """
     def __init__(self, filename, read_mode=False):
-        self._f = open(filename, 'a+b')
+        self._f = open(filename, 'rb' if read_mode else 'a+b')
         if os.fstat(self._f.fileno()).st_size == 0:
             self._f.truncate(_INITIAL_MMAP_SIZE)
         self._capacity = os.fstat(self._f.fileno()).st_size
