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If an async generator holds a scope open across a yield, e.g.
async def generate():
async with duet.new_scope() as scope:
async for x in duet.pmap_aiter(scope, func, items):
yield x
and the caller stops iterating early (break, or an exception) without
calling aclose(), the generator is closed synchronously when it is garbage
collected, throwing GeneratorExit into new_scope. new_scope then
interrupted the remaining tasks and awaited them, but a generator cannot
yield while handling GeneratorExit, so this failed with an unraisable
"RuntimeError: async generator ignored GeneratorExit". Worse, the abandoned
new_scope frame had already set main_task.interruptible = False and never
restored it, so the caller could no longer be interrupted, e.g. by a
timeout: a following duet.sleep() hung forever. And because the
interrupted tasks were still attached to the caller's task, their eventual
failure would interrupt the caller, which had moved on, with
RuntimeError("scope exited").
On GeneratorExit, interrupt the remaining tasks without awaiting them, and
detach them from main_task with a new Task.detach() method, so that their
failure is dropped instead of reported to main_task. Detached tasks are
interrupted from their new main task, DETACHED, so that (with the fix that
keeps parent-scope Interrupts intact in nested scopes) the Interrupt cannot
be turned into a catchable RuntimeError inside them.
Behaviour change: when the generator is closed with `await agen.aclose()`,
the tasks are now interrupted but finish in the background rather than
before aclose() returns.
This is robust only together with the fixes that preserve parent-scope
Interrupts in nested scopes and that re-register ready tasks when a root
task raises in Scheduler.tick.
DETACHED refuses interrupts, like a task that can't be interrupted, so
that once the scheduler re-posts a KeyboardInterrupt its main task can't
take (google#104), a Ctrl-C that reaches a detached task is not lost.
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When SIGINT arrives while the scheduler is waiting between ticks, the next tick delivers a KeyboardInterrupt to a task. It picked an arbitrary task, next(iter(self.active_tasks)), and cleared the pending flag. But Task.interrupt silently ignores tasks that are not interruptible or already have an interrupt pending. While a scope cleans up after an error, its main task is uninterruptible and its other tasks already have interrupts pending, so a Ctrl-C in that window was dropped and the program kept running. Make Task.interrupt return whether it accepted the interrupt, and in tick offer the KeyboardInterrupt to the active tasks until one accepts it. If none does, keep the SIGINT pending and try again on the next tick. A Ctrl-C could still be lost in two more ways, now also fixed: - A task that fails with KeyboardInterrupt reports it to its main task, which drops it if it can't take an interrupt right now (e.g. it is finishing its tasks after another error). Re-post the SIGINT instead, so the next tick delivers it to a task that can take it. - If the run finishes while a SIGINT is still pending, duet.run now raises KeyboardInterrupt instead of returning normally.
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If an async generator holds a scope open across a yield, e.g.
async def generate():
async with duet.new_scope() as scope:
async for x in duet.pmap_aiter(scope, func, items):
yield x
and the caller stops iterating early (break, or an exception) without
calling aclose(), the generator is closed synchronously when it is garbage
collected, throwing GeneratorExit into new_scope. new_scope then
interrupted the remaining tasks and awaited them, but a generator cannot
yield while handling GeneratorExit, so this failed with an unraisable
"RuntimeError: async generator ignored GeneratorExit". Worse, the abandoned
new_scope frame had already set main_task.interruptible = False and never
restored it, so the caller could no longer be interrupted, e.g. by a
timeout: a following duet.sleep() hung forever. And because the
interrupted tasks were still attached to the caller's task, their eventual
failure (ScopeExit) would interrupt the caller, which had moved on.
On GeneratorExit, interrupt the remaining tasks with ScopeExit without
awaiting them, and detach them from main_task with a new Task.detach()
method, so that their failure is dropped instead of reported to main_task.
Behaviour change: when the generator is closed with `await agen.aclose()`,
the tasks are now interrupted but finish in the background rather than
before aclose() returns.
Detached tasks are exactly the kind of tasks that no scope waits for, so
this is robust only together with the fix that re-registers ready tasks
when a root task raises in Scheduler.tick (google#103).
DETACHED refuses interrupts, like a task that can't be interrupted, so
that once the scheduler re-posts a KeyboardInterrupt its main task can't
take (google#104), a Ctrl-C that reaches a detached task is not lost.
- Only clear the pending SIGINT flag in tick when a task takes the KeyboardInterrupt. - Rename accepted to interrupted. - Clear the pending SIGINT flag when duet.run raises KeyboardInterrupt for it, so it is not delivered twice (Scheduler.take_interrupt replaces the interrupt_pending property).
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If an async generator holds a scope open across a yield, e.g.
async def generate():
async with duet.new_scope() as scope:
async for x in duet.pmap_aiter(scope, func, items):
yield x
and the caller stops iterating early (break, or an exception) without
calling aclose(), the generator is closed synchronously when it is garbage
collected, throwing GeneratorExit into new_scope. new_scope then
interrupted the remaining tasks and awaited them, but a generator cannot
yield while handling GeneratorExit, so this failed with an unraisable
"RuntimeError: async generator ignored GeneratorExit". Worse, the abandoned
new_scope frame had already set main_task.interruptible = False and never
restored it, so the caller could no longer be interrupted, e.g. by a
timeout: a following duet.sleep() hung forever. And because the
interrupted tasks were still attached to the caller's task, their eventual
failure (ScopeExit) would interrupt the caller, which had moved on.
On GeneratorExit, interrupt the remaining tasks with ScopeExit without
awaiting them, and detach them from main_task with a new Task.detach()
method, so that their failure is dropped instead of reported to main_task.
Behaviour change: when the generator is closed with `await agen.aclose()`,
the tasks are now interrupted but finish in the background rather than
before aclose() returns.
Detached tasks are exactly the kind of tasks that no scope waits for, so
this is robust only together with the fix that re-registers ready tasks
when a root task raises in Scheduler.tick (google#103).
_DETACHED refuses interrupts, like a task that can't be interrupted, so
that once the scheduler re-posts a KeyboardInterrupt its main task can't
take (google#104), a Ctrl-C that reaches a detached task is not lost.
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Problem
When SIGINT arrives while the scheduler is between ticks,
Scheduler._interruptsets_interrupted. The nexttick()then delivers aKeyboardInterrupttonext(iter(self.active_tasks)), an arbitrary task, and clears the flag. ButTask.interruptsilently does nothing if the task is notinterruptibleor already has an interrupt pending. While a scope cleans up after an error, its main task is uninterruptible (it waits infinish_tasks()) and its other tasks already have interrupts pending, so a Ctrl-C in that window was dropped and the program kept running. A Ctrl-C could also be lost after reaching a task whose main task couldn't take it, or if the run ended before any task took it. We hit this with Ctrl-C hangs in a downstream project.Reproduction
Fix
Task.interruptnow returns whether it accepted the interrupt (existing callers ignore the result).tick()offers theKeyboardInterruptto the active tasks in turn and stops at the first that accepts it. If none does,_interruptedstays set and a later tick tries again. This can't busy-loop, becauseget_all()still blocks until some task is ready. The flag is cleared only when a task takes theKeyboardInterrupt.KeyboardInterruptreports it to its main task viaTask.interrupt, which used to drop it if the main task couldn't take an interrupt right then (e.g. while finishing its tasks after another error; the scope then re-raised the original error and anexcept Exception:upstream carried on). The task now re-posts the SIGINT (Scheduler.repost_interrupt), so the next tick delivers it to a task that can take it.duet.runnow raisesKeyboardInterruptinstead of returning normally. It takes the SIGINT with the newScheduler.take_interrupt(), which also clears the flag, so it isn't delivered twice. If the run fails with another error while a SIGINT is pending, that error is raised as before; the SIGINT isn't raised in addition.Tests
TestScheduler.test_sigint_interrupts_interruptible_task(inimpl_test.py). It makes iteration overactive_tasksput the uninterruptible main task first, then checks that the interruptible child gets theKeyboardInterrupt.TestScheduler.test_sigint_stays_pending_while_no_task_is_interruptible.TestScheduler.test_keyboard_interrupt_kept_pending_if_main_task_cannot_take_itandTestScheduler.test_sigint_pending_when_run_finishes_is_raised.main(DID NOT RAISE KeyboardInterrupt) and pass with this change. SIGINT is simulated by callingscheduler._interrupt(signal.SIGINT, None)between ticks, so no real signals, threads or timing are involved.