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"at_exit" function run twice with cleanup-at-exit runtime option #7796

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vicuna opened this issue May 17, 2018 · 8 comments
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"at_exit" function run twice with cleanup-at-exit runtime option #7796

vicuna opened this issue May 17, 2018 · 8 comments
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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Original bug ID: 7796
Reporter: @xavierleroy
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: resolved (set by @xavierleroy on 2018-05-23T17:51:00Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Platform: x86-64
OS: Ubuntu Linux 16.04
Version: 4.07.0+dev/beta2/rc1/rc2
Target version: 4.07.0+dev/beta2/rc1/rc2
Fixed in version: 4.07.0+dev/beta2/rc1/rc2
Category: runtime system and C interface
Related to: #7178 #7253
Monitored by: @nojb @gasche @dbuenzli

Bug description

When "c=1" is put in OCAMLRUNPARAM, text printed to standard output in an at_exit function ends up written twice to standard output.

~/caml/devel$ cat foo.ml
let _ =
at_exit (fun () -> print_endline "\nAll tests succeeded.")
~/caml/devel$ boot/ocamlrun ./ocamlc -I ./stdlib -o foo.byte foo.ml
~/caml/devel$ byterun/ocamlrun foo.byte

All tests succeeded.
~/caml/devel$ OCAMLRUNPARAM=c=1 byterun/ocamlrun foo.byte

All tests succeeded.

All tests succeeded.
~/caml/devel$

Among other ill effects, this causes many tests in the test suite to fail when run with OCAMLRUNPARAM="c=1".

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @xavierleroy

It seems that all "at_exit" functions are run TWICE if cleanup-at-exit is set. This is a serious mistake.

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @nojb

at_exit functions are called from caml_shutdown

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/byterun/startup_aux.c#L159

(caml_shutdown is called if cleanup_on_exit is set), but if the program finished normally, they would also have been called via std_exit.

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @nojb

The change to call at_exit functions from caml_shutdown was thread-related:

commit a6cad36
Author: Max Mouratov mmouratov@gmail.com
Date: Sun Nov 29 23:26:18 2015 +0500

runtime: handling "at_exit" in caml_shutdown

Without this, the Thread machinery didn't shut down correctly.

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @xavierleroy

I agree that caml_shutdown should run the at-exit functions. This is especially true if the OCaml code is embedded as a library in a larger program. I also think that we should not run the at-exit functions twice, and will propose a GPR for that.

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @dbuenzli

Since people might look into the whole machinery I just want to relate this to #7253 and #7178 and associated aborted GPR.

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vicuna commented May 17, 2018

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Proposed fix at #1783 .
It does not address the other issues mentioned by @dbuenzli, but it an improvement nonetheless.

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vicuna commented May 21, 2018

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Alternate, improved fix at #1790
It also addresses #7253.

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vicuna commented May 23, 2018

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Merged #1790

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