git-annex/Assistant/ThreadedMonad.hs
Joey Hess 8c7dfc93b5 catch IO exceptions in runThreadState
A few places catch IO errors after calling runThreadState,
but since the MVar was not restored, it'd later deadlock trying to read
from it.

I'd like to catch all exceptions here, but I could not get the types
to unify.
2012-06-15 19:00:06 -04:00

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{- making the Annex monad available across threads
-
- Copyright 2012 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
-}
{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
module Assistant.ThreadedMonad where
import Common.Annex
import qualified Annex
import Control.Concurrent
import Control.Exception (throw)
{- The Annex state is stored in a MVar, so that threaded actions can access
- it. -}
type ThreadState = MVar Annex.AnnexState
{- Stores the Annex state in a MVar.
-
- Once the action is finished, retrieves the state from the MVar.
-}
withThreadState :: (ThreadState -> Annex a) -> Annex a
withThreadState a = do
state <- Annex.getState id
mvar <- liftIO $ newMVar state
r <- a mvar
newstate <- liftIO $ takeMVar mvar
Annex.changeState (const newstate)
return r
{- Runs an Annex action, using the state from the MVar.
-
- This serializes calls by threads. -}
runThreadState :: ThreadState -> Annex a -> IO a
runThreadState mvar a = do
startstate <- takeMVar mvar
-- catch IO errors and rethrow after restoring the MVar
!(r, newstate) <- catchIO (Annex.run startstate a) $ \e -> do
putMVar mvar startstate
throw e
putMVar mvar newstate
return r