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xbaldauf

Kernel.silence_stream is not thread-safe

Reported by xbaldauf | June 23rd, 2010 @ 12:25 PM

Hello, consider code http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/53c13f1acaa2eb05e7f418b53f6156a4... running in a Ruby VM with support for multiple threads. It is possible that following happens

thread 1: old_stream = stream.dup
thread 1: stream.reopen('/dev/null')
thread 2: old_stream = stream.dup
thread 2: stream.reopen('/dev/null')
thread 1: stream.reopen(old_stream)
thread 2: stream.reopen(old_stream)

This results in stdout bein permanently set to /dev/null, instead of being set to something usual. In JRuby, in turn, this leads to a cascade of other bad behaviour (somehow, the output buffer overruns and then every "puts" yields an exceptiopn).

In general, every access to "reopen" should be carefully reviewed.

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 05:01 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

    The resources of the Rails core team are limited, and so we are asking for your help. If you can still reproduce this error on the 3-0-stable branch or on master, please reply with all of the information you have about it and add "[state:open]" to your comment. This will reopen the ticket for review. Likewise, if you feel that this is a very important feature for Rails to include, please reply with your explanation so we can consider it.

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  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 05:01 PM

    • State changed from “open” to “stale”

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