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bug#37892: 27.0.50; Crash when signaling a thread
From: |
Michał Krzywkowski |
Subject: |
bug#37892: 27.0.50; Crash when signaling a thread |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:29:43 +0200 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.3.50 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Michał Krzywkowski <mkrzywkow@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:06:42 +0200
>>
>> When I evaluate this sexp, Emacs aborts:
>>
>> (let ((thread (make-thread (lambda () (sit-for 1.0)))))
>> (sit-for 0.5)
>> (thread-signal thread 'error nil))
>>
>> Backtrace:
>>
>> Thread 5 "emacs" hit Breakpoint 1, terminate_due_to_signal
(sig=sig@entry=6, backtrace_limit=backtrace_limit@entry=40) at emacs.c:371
>> 371 signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
>> #0 0x000000000041f40b in terminate_due_to_signal (sig=sig@entry=6,
backtrace_limit=backtrace_limit@entry=40) at emacs.c:371
>> #1 0x000000000041f866 in emacs_abort () at sysdep.c:2450
>> #2 0x000000000042154b in signal_or_quit (error_symbol=XIL(0x90),
data=XIL(0), keyboard_quit=<optimized out>) at eval.c:1598
>> #3 0x0000000000421564 in Fsignal (error_symbol=<optimized out>,
data=<optimized out>) at eval.c:1568
>> #4 0x0000000000423929 in post_acquire_global_lock (self=<optimized
out>) at thread.c:115
>> #5 0x00000000005c5e62 in acquire_global_lock (self=0x1465e50) at
thread.c:123
Eli> Emacs doesn't allow signals while it waits for input.
Eli> We could ignore thread-signal in such cases, or we could make it an
Eli> error (which will then signal an error in the thread which called
Eli> thread-signal). What do people think? Are there any other ideas for
Eli> handling this situation?
Maybe the signal should be raised in the thread right after it returns
from sit-for? Ignoring signals sounds like a bad idea.
Eli> Michał, can you tell why you needed to call thread-signal while the
Eli> thread was in sit-for?
I wanted to signal some background thread which was doing some work and
then Emacs crashed, because it just so happened that it was in sit-for.
The thread function was doing _more_ than just sit-for.
I actually don't care (and can't know) what another thread is doing, I
just want to send a signal to it.
Eli> Thanks.
Thank you.
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Michał Krzywkowski
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