[ruby-core:69897] Re: [Ruby trunk - Bug #11336] TestProcess#test_exec_fd_3_redirect failed on Solaris 10

[e-mail] wrote:
> ~~~
> $ ruby -e 'a = IO.pipe; b = IO.pipe; p a; p b; pid = fork { exec("ruby", "-e", "print IO.for_fd(3).read(1)", 3=>a[0],1=>b[1]) }; b[1].close; a[0].close; a[1].write("."); p b[0].read(1); Process.wait(pid)'
> [#<IO:fd 7>, #<IO:fd 8>]
> [#<IO:fd 9>, #<IO:fd 10>]
> [ASYNC BUG] consume_communication_pipe: read

OK, I also hit the problem on a VM, too.

The problem is the timer thread is still running when we are performing
redirects for exec.

Can you try the following to stop the timer thread?

~~~
--- a/process.c
+++ b/process.c
@@ -2566,7 +2566,7 @@ rb_f_exec(int argc, const VALUE *argv)
 #if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__HAIKU__)
     rb_exec_without_timer_thread(eargp, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
 #else
-    before_exec_async_signal_safe(); /* async-signal-safe */
+    before_exec(); /* NOT async-signal-safe */
     rb_exec_async_signal_safe(eargp, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
     preserving_errno(after_exec_async_signal_safe()); /* async-signal-safe */
 #endif
~~~

I will have limited Internet access the next few days.

Feel free to commit if it works for you; maybe the timer thread needs to
be restarted if execve fails, too (but the process will die).

Also, maybe the __APPLE__ || __HAIKU__ code above is suitable for all
OS, too.

In the coming weeks, we may also consider lazy spawning timer thread,
single-threaded scripts do not need it.