[ruby-core:57576] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6647] Exceptions raised in threads should be logged

Issue #6647 has been updated by akr (Akira Tanaka).


In the yesterday's meeting,
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/DevelopersMeeting20131001Japan
we discussed this issue.

We found that message at thread exiting with exception have a problem.
The thread can be joined after exit and the exception may be handled by joined thread.

% ruby -e '
t = Thread.new {
  raise "foo"
}
sleep 1 # the thread exits with an exception.
begin
  t.join
rescue
  p $! # something to do with the exception
end
'
#<RuntimeError: foo>

If thread exiting with exception outputs a message,
there is no way to disable to it.

So, the message should be delayed until Ruby is certain that
the thread is not joined.
This means the message should be output at the thread is collected by GC.

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Feature #6647: Exceptions raised in threads should be logged
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6647#change-42191

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: current: 2.1.0


Many applications and users I have dealt with have run into bugs due to Ruby's behavior of quietly swallowing exceptions raised in threads. I believe this is a bug, and threads should always at least log exceptions that bubble all the way out and terminate them.

The implementation should be simple, but I'm not yet familiar enough with the MRI codebase to provide a patch. The exception logging should be logged in the same way top-level exceptions get logged, but perhaps with information about the thread that was terminated because of the exception.

Here is a monkey patch that simulates what I'm hoping to achieve with this bug:


class << Thread
  alias old_new new

  def new(*args, &block)
    old_new(*args) do |*bargs|
      begin
        block.call(*bargs)
      rescue Exception => e
        raise if Thread.abort_on_exception || Thread.current.abort_on_exception
        puts "Thread for block #{block.inspect} terminated with exception: #{e.message}"
        puts e.backtrace.map {|line| "  #{line}"}
      end
    end
  end
end

Thread.new { 1 / 0 }.join
puts "After thread"   

__END__

Output:

system ~/projects/jruby $ ruby thread_error.rb 
Thread for block #<Proc:0x000000010d008a80@thread_error.rb:17> terminated with exception: divided by 0
  thread_error.rb:17:in `/'
  thread_error.rb:17
  thread_error.rb:7:in `call'
  thread_error.rb:7:in `new'
  thread_error.rb:5:in `initialize'
  thread_error.rb:5:in `old_new'
  thread_error.rb:5:in `new'
  thread_error.rb:17
After thread



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