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authorJosé Valim <jose.valim@plataformatec.com.br>2014-05-01 17:44:18 +0200
committerLukas Larsson <lukas@erlang-solutions.com>2014-10-16 17:56:17 +0200
commit2d3a39b5729a295d4e0ac416ff0280e3edca44c6 (patch)
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Fix io:columns/0 timeout when invoked via user
This patch fixes an issue where io:columns/0 times out when invoked from any application callback (or any supervisor/supervised module since the group leader is inherited). To reproduce the issue, one must simply call io:columns() from any application callback. You will notice the process will block for 2 seconds which then times out and returns {:error, :enotsup}. Note this bug only happens inside the erlang shell (using -noshell or escripts do not trigger the bug). To fix the bug, it is important to understand how io requests flow from application callback processes. Here are the steps followed: 1. Since io:columns/1 is timing out, the first step is to find out who is the group leader for the application callback process. Using process_info/1, we can see the parent process is the application_master and handles io_requests by delegating them to the group_leader. 2. By inspecting the application_master process, we can find the group_leader the message is sent is the registered process named user. The process is running the group module which does handle io:columns/1 requests delegating them to user_drv process. 3. The user_drv process does handle tty_geometry requests, except that a clause above ends up short-circuiting all tty_geometry requests from the user process. This patch moves the user clause below the specific driver messages. OTP-12241
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel')
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl b/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
index 79f80f6604..e6ce85c379 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
@@ -173,11 +173,6 @@ server_loop(Iport, Oport, Curr, User, Gr, IOQueue) ->
{Iport,eof} ->
Curr ! {self(),eof},
server_loop(Iport, Oport, Curr, User, Gr, IOQueue);
- {User,Req} when element(1,Req) == tty_geometry;
- element(1,Req) == get_unicode_state;
- element(1,Req) == set_unicode_state ->
- %% We ignore these requests from User, could be a bug?
- server_loop(Iport, Oport, Curr, User, Gr, IOQueue);
Req when element(1,Req) =:= User orelse element(1,Req) =:= Curr,
tuple_size(Req) =:= 2 orelse tuple_size(Req) =:= 3 ->
%% We match {User|Curr,_}|{User|Curr,_,_}