Re: Interrupting long external library calls

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:30:03PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 16.05.2012 15:42, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> >But CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS doesn't return, right ?
> >Is there another macro for just checking w/out yet acting upon it ?
>
> Hmm, no. CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() checks the InterruptPending
> variable, but on Windows it also checks for
> UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE(). And even if InterruptPending is set, it's
> not totally certain that CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() won't return. I
> think InterruptPending can be set spuriously (even if that's not
> possible today, I wouldn't rely on it), and if you're in a
> HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS block, CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() will do nothing
> even if InterruptPending is true.
>
> The only sane way to make 3rd party code interruptible is to add
> CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to it, in safe places.

No place is safe if CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS doesn't return.
How could caller code cleanup on interruption ?

--strk;