Re: Locks and threads

[Neil Jerram]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, it's an unrelated bug.  All of the places that raise errors (and
> so exit non-locally) should exit the critical section first.

> You're absolutely right.  I'll leave this part out, and generate a
> separate patch for it.

Here's the separate patch...

       Neil

>From 4d78f2447a5a1e3cb1acf596929b1bfe4fbe3884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:03:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid throw from critical section, given invalid sigaction call

* libguile/scmsigs.c (scm_sigaction_for_thread): Exit critical section
  before raising out-of-range error.

* test-suite/Makefile.am (SCM_TESTS): Add signals.test.

* test-suite/tests/signals.test: New file.
---
 libguile/scmsigs.c            |    5 ++++-
 test-suite/Makefile.am        |    1 +
 test-suite/tests/signals.test |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test-suite/tests/signals.test

diff --git a/libguile/scmsigs.c b/libguile/scmsigs.c
index c406007..e15bbf3 100644
--- a/libguile/scmsigs.c
+++ b/libguile/scmsigs.c
@@ -356,7 +356,10 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_sigaction_for_thread, "sigaction", 1, 3, 0,
          install_handler (csig, SCM_BOOL_F, SCM_BOOL_F, async);
        }
       else
-       SCM_OUT_OF_RANGE (2, handler);
+       {
+         SCM_CRITICAL_SECTION_END;
+         SCM_OUT_OF_RANGE (2, handler);
+       }
     }
   else if (scm_is_false (handler))
     {
diff --git a/test-suite/Makefile.am b/test-suite/Makefile.am
index df8c7bc..5492137 100644
--- a/test-suite/Makefile.am
+++ b/test-suite/Makefile.am
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ SCM_TESTS = tests/alist.test                  \
            tests/reader.test                   \
            tests/receive.test                  \
            tests/regexp.test                   \
+           tests/signals.test                  \
            tests/socket.test                   \
            tests/srcprop.test                  \
            tests/srfi-1.test                   \
diff --git a/test-suite/tests/signals.test b/test-suite/tests/signals.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cab85e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-suite/tests/signals.test
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+;;;; signals.test --- test suite for Guile's signal functions       -*- scheme 
-*-
+;;;; 
+;;;; Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;;;; 
+;;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;;;; any later version.
+;;;; 
+;;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;; 
+;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;;; along with this software; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+;;;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;;;; Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+
+
+(use-modules (test-suite lib))
+
+(with-test-prefix "sigaction"
+
+  (pass-if-exception "handler arg is an invalid integer"
+    exception:out-of-range
+    (sigaction SIGINT 51))
+
+  )
-- 
1.5.6.5