[Mono-bugs] [Bug 381928] GLib crashes can hang mono

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381928

User dbera.web at gmail.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381928#c13





--- Comment #13 from D Bera <dbera.web at gmail.com>  2008-04-22 08:16:11 MST ---
(In reply to comment #9 from Zoltan Varga)
> As I said earlier, there is no exception in this case, control goes directly
> from the SIGSEGV signal handler to mono_handle_native_sigsegv () in
> mini-exceptions.c, which tries to gather and print the stack traces, then
> aborts the program.

You seem to suggest that the try-catch in
try {
  native_method();
} catch {
}

is a no-op. The test case suggest the opposite.

Also, after the recent discussion about signal-handlers in the mono-devel
thread, isnt it clear that doing a whole lot of work in a signal-handler is
dangerous and a deadlock is just waiting to happen ? I was clearly told that
unix signal handlers allow very limited syscalls - spawning a program is not in
that list and neither are the lots of other things that mono is doing.

There is one more catch: unix specification says that if a SIGABRT signal
handler returns then the process is aborted. There is _no_need_ to call
"abort()" - I wonder if calling abort from a signal-handler could be causing
the problem.


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