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authorEnrico Tassi2019-01-21 13:46:31 +0100
committerEnrico Tassi2019-01-22 18:03:18 +0100
commit816d8e6723c7272f2df0ff9e614f8a0fe19f66c9 (patch)
tree08547fb1a9ef780d2e7b56e99de17db3866f7b89 /clib
parent05e2222e04323d11429d659b415750cf40e2babd (diff)
[thread] protect threads against sigalrm
This makes the implementation of Timeout on unix more reliable since only the main thread will receive the signal for timeout.
Diffstat (limited to 'clib')
-rw-r--r--clib/cThread.ml7
-rw-r--r--clib/cThread.mli3
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/clib/cThread.ml b/clib/cThread.ml
index 0b7955aa28..c50768b88d 100644
--- a/clib/cThread.ml
+++ b/clib/cThread.ml
@@ -97,3 +97,10 @@ let thread_friendly_input_value ic =
end
with Unix.Unix_error _ | Sys_error _ -> raise End_of_file
+let protect_sigalrm f x =
+ begin try ignore(Thread.sigmask Unix.SIG_BLOCK [Sys.sigalrm])
+ with Invalid_argument _ -> () end;
+ f x
+
+let create f x =
+ Thread.create (protect_sigalrm f) x
diff --git a/clib/cThread.mli b/clib/cThread.mli
index acc5a60c09..b090479c4c 100644
--- a/clib/cThread.mli
+++ b/clib/cThread.mli
@@ -26,3 +26,6 @@ val thread_friendly_really_read :
thread_ic -> Bytes.t -> off:int -> len:int -> unit
val thread_friendly_really_read_line : thread_ic -> string
+(* Wrapper around Thread.create that blocks signals such as Sys.sigalrm (used
+ * for Timeout *)
+val create : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> Thread.t