[ruby-core:44666] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6369][Open] GServer blocking after shutdown called

Issue #6369 has been reported by stevegoobermanhill (stephen gooberman-hill).

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Bug #6369: GServer blocking after shutdown called
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6369

Author: stevegoobermanhill (stephen gooberman-hill)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [i686-linux]


Hi,
My investigation of bug #6358 points the finger at GServer triggering bug #5343 on lower power arm-linux platforms, because of the blocking TCPServer#accept call. 

I believe there is also an underlying design flaw: the main thread (@tcpServerThread)  is blocked in the TCPServer#accept call, so if no further connections are attempted after #shutdown() is called, the main thread remains blocked and will hang until it is forced into the ensure clause by the destruction of the GServer object by GC

This proposed patch to GServer seems to tackle the first issue, and also effectively makes the TCPServer#accept nonblocking by using a Timeout block to ensure that the main thread periodically (every 0.1s) has the chance to shut down gracefully if no further connections are forthcoming. 

It also adds a GServer#shutdown! method which will block until the GServer has gracefully shut down

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< #   server.shutdown
< #   
---
> #   server.shutdown   #will not wait for the server thread to quit
> #   server.shutdown!  #blocks until server thread has quit
> #
> #
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< 
---
>   
>   def shutdown!
>     shutdown
>      while !stopped?
>       sleep 0.01
>     end
>   end
>   
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<     @@servicesMutex.synchronize  {
---
>     @@servicesMutex.synchronize do
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<     }
<     @tcpServerThread = Thread.new {
---
>     end
>     
>     @tcpServerThread = Thread.new do
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<           @connectionsMutex.synchronize  {
---
>           @connectionsMutex.synchronize do
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<           }
<           client = @tcpServer.accept
<           @connections << Thread.new(client)  { |myClient|
<             begin
<               myPort = myClient.peeraddr[1]
<               serve(myClient) if !@audit or connecting(myClient)
<             rescue => detail
<               error(detail) if @debug
<             ensure
<               begin
<                 myClient.close
<               rescue
---
>           end
>           
>           
>           begin
>             Timeout::timeout(0.1) do 
>               client = @tcpServer.accept
>          
>               @connections << Thread.new(client) do |myClient|
>                 begin
>                   myPort = myClient.peeraddr[1]
>                   serve(myClient) if !@audit or connecting(myClient)
>                 rescue => detail
>                   error(detail) if @debug
>                 ensure
>                   begin
>                     myClient.close
>                     sleep 1
>                   rescue
>                   end
>                   @connectionsMutex.synchronize do
>                     @connections.delete(Thread.current)
>                     @connectionsCV.signal
>                   end
>                   disconnecting(myPort) if @audit
>                 end
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<               @connectionsMutex.synchronize {
<                 @connections.delete(Thread.current)
<                 @connectionsCV.signal
<               }
<               disconnecting(myPort) if @audit
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<           }
---
>          rescue Timeout::Error
>          end
> 
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>         
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<           @connectionsMutex.synchronize  {
---
>           @connectionsMutex.synchronize do
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<           }
---
>           end
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<         @@servicesMutex.synchronize  {
---
>         @@servicesMutex.synchronize do
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<         }
---
>         end
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<     }
---
>     end




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