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+=== 1.0.0 / 2008-02-27
+
+* Initial Release
+

data/LICENSE

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+Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>.
+You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
+(see COPYING.txt file), or the conditions below:
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+
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+

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+== Synopsis
+
+System Timer, a timer based on underlying SIGALRM system timers, is a
+solution to Ruby processes which hang beyond the time limit when accessing
+external resources. This is useful when timeout.rb, which relies on green
+threads, does not work consistently.
+
+== Usage
+
+  require 'systemtimer'
+
+  SystemTimer.timeout_after(5) do
+
+    # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
+    # ... even if blocked on a system call!
+
+  end
+
+== Requirements
+
+SystemTimer only works on UNIX platforms (Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, BSD, ...).
+You can install the gem on Microsoft Windows, but you will only get 
+a convenience shell wrapping a simple call to timeout.rb under the cover.
+
+== Install
+
+    sudo gem install systemtimer
+
+
+== Authors
+
+* David Vollbracht  <http://davidvollbracht.com>
+* Philippe Hanrigou <http:/ph7spot.com>
+   
+== Copyright
+
+Copyright:: (C) 2008  David Vollbracht & Philippe Hanrigou
+
+== Description
+
+While deploying Rails application in production our team discovered
+that some web service call would not timeout way beyond their defined
+limit, progressively freezing our Mongrel cluster until we restarted
+the servers. A closer analysis revealed that the native thread in charge of
+of the web service call was never scheduled, "stucked" on the service
+call. As it turn out the timeout library bundled with Ruby 1.8 (MRI)
+relies on green-threads to perform its magic... so the magic had no chance
+to happen in this scenario.
+
+Based on an original idea by Kurtis Seebaldt <http://kseebaldt.blogspot.com>,
+David Vollbracht and Philippe Hanrigou pair programmed an alternative
+implementation based on system timers (the +SIGALRM+ POSIX signal):
+This design guarantees proper timeout behavior even when crossing-boundaries and accessing
+system/external resources. Special care has been taken to interfere as little as
+possible with other processes that might also rely on +SIGALRM+, 
+in particular MySQL.
+
+This implementation is not intended to be drop-in replacement to
+timeout.rb, just a way to wrap sensitive call to system resources.   
+
+
+== License
+
+(The Ruby License)
+
+Copyright:: (C) 2008  David Vollbracht & Philippe Hanrigou
+
+SystemTimer is copyrighted free software by David Vollbracht and Philippe Hanrigou.
+You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
+(see COPYING file), or the conditions below:
+
+  1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
+     software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
+     original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
+
+  2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that
+     you do at least ONE of the following:
+
+       a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
+          make them Freely Available, such as by posting said
+          modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing
+	      the author to include your modifications in the software.
+
+       b) use the modified software only within your corporation or
+          organization.
+
+       c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
+	      with standard executables, which must also be provided.
+
+       d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+
+  3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
+     form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
+
+       a) distribute the executables and library files of the software,
+          together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent)
+          on where to get the original distribution.
+
+       b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
+          the software.
+
+       c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, with
+          instructions on where to get the original software distribution.
+
+       d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+
+  4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other
+     software (possibly commercial).  But some files in the distribution
+     are not written by the author, so that they are not under this terms.
+
+     They are gc.c(partly), utils.c(partly), regex.[ch], st.[ch] and some
+     files under the ./missing directory.  See each file for the copying
+     condition.
+
+  5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as 
+     output from the software do not automatically fall under the
+     copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them, 
+     and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
+     software.
+
+  6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
+     IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+     WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+     PURPOSE.
+
+

data/ext/system_timer/extconf.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+require 'mkmf'
+create_makefile("system_timer_native")

data/ext/system_timer/system_timer_native.c

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+#include "ruby.h"
+#include "rubysig.h"
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#define DISPLAY_ERRNO 	 		 1
+#define DO_NOT_DISPLAY_ERRNO 0
+
+VALUE rb_cSystemTimer;
+sigset_t original_mask;
+sigset_t sigalarm_mask;
+struct sigaction original_signal_handler;
+struct itimerval original_timer_interval;
+
+static void clear_pending_sigalrm_for_ruby_threads();
+static void log_debug(char*);
+static void log_error(char*, int);
+static void install_ruby_sigalrm_handler(VALUE);
+static void restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler(VALUE);
+static void restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked();
+static void restore_original_timer_interval();
+static void set_itimerval(struct itimerval *, int);
+
+static int debug_enabled = 0;
+
+static VALUE install_timer(VALUE self, VALUE seconds)
+{
+  struct itimerval timer_interval;
+
+	/*
+	 * Block SIG_ALRM for safe processing of SIG_ALRM configuration and save mask.
+	 */
+	if (0 != sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigalarm_mask, &original_mask)) {
+		log_error("install_timer: Could not block SIG_ALRM", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+		return Qnil;
+	}
+	clear_pending_sigalrm_for_ruby_threads();
+	log_debug("install_timer: Succesfully blocked SIG_ALRM at O.S. level");
+	
+  /*
+   * Save previous signal handler.
+   */
+	original_signal_handler.sa_handler = NULL;
+  if (0 != sigaction(SIGALRM, NULL, &original_signal_handler)) {
+		log_error("install_timer: Could not save existing handler for SIG_ALRM", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+		restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked();
+		return Qnil;
+  }
+	log_debug("install_timer: Succesfully saved existing SIG_ALRM handler");
+
+	/*
+	 * Install Ruby Level SIG_ALRM handler
+	 */
+	install_ruby_sigalrm_handler(self);
+
+  /*
+   * Set new real time interval timer and save the original if any.
+   */	
+	set_itimerval(&original_timer_interval, 0);
+  set_itimerval(&timer_interval, NUM2INT(seconds));
+  if (0 != setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &timer_interval, &original_timer_interval)) {
+		log_error("install_timer: Could not install our own timer, timeout will not work", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+		restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler(self);
+		restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked();
+	  return Qnil;
+  }
+	log_debug("install_timer: Successfully installed timer");
+
+  /*
+   * Unblock SIG_ALRM
+   */
+	if (0 != sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigalarm_mask, NULL)) {
+		log_error("install_timer: Could not unblock SIG_ALRM, timeout will not work", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+		restore_original_timer_interval();
+		restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler(self);
+		restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked();		
+	}
+	log_debug("install_timer: Succesfully unblocked SIG_ALRM.");
+
+	return Qnil;
+}
+
+static VALUE cleanup_timer(VALUE self, VALUE seconds)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Block SIG_ALRM for safe processing of SIG_ALRM configuration.
+	 */
+	if (0 != sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigalarm_mask, NULL)) {
+		log_error("cleanup_timer: Could not block SIG_ALRM", errno);
+	}
+	clear_pending_sigalrm_for_ruby_threads();
+	log_debug("cleanup_timer: Blocked SIG_ALRM");
+
+	/*
+	 * Install Ruby Level SIG_ALRM handler
+	 */
+	restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler(self);
+	
+	
+	if (original_signal_handler.sa_handler == NULL) {
+		log_error("cleanup_timer: Previous SIG_ALRM handler not initialized!", DO_NOT_DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+	} else if (0 == sigaction(SIGALRM, &original_signal_handler, NULL)) {
+		log_debug("cleanup_timer: Succesfully restored previous handler for SIG_ALRM");
+  } else {
+		log_error("cleanup_timer: Could not restore previous handler for SIG_ALRM", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+	}
+	original_signal_handler.sa_handler = NULL;
+	
+	restore_original_timer_interval();	
+	restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked();	
+}
+
+/*
+ * Restore original timer the way it was originally set. **WARNING** Breaks original timer semantics
+ *
+ *   Not bothering to calculate how much time is left or if the timer already expired
+ *   based on when the original timer was set and how much time is passed, just resetting 
+ *   the original timer as is for the sake of simplicity.
+ *
+ */
+static void restore_original_timer_interval() {
+  if (0 != setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &original_timer_interval, NULL)) {
+		log_error("install_timer: Could not restore original timer", DISPLAY_ERRNO);
+  }
+	log_debug("install_timer: Successfully restored timer");	
+}
+
+static void restore_original_sigalrm_mask_when_blocked() 
+{
+	if (!sigismember(&original_mask, SIGALRM)) {
+		sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigalarm_mask, NULL);
+		log_debug("cleanup_timer: Unblocked SIG_ALRM");
+	} else {
+		log_debug("cleanup_timer: No Need to unblock SIG_ALRM");
+	}	
+}
+
+static void install_ruby_sigalrm_handler(VALUE self) {
+  rb_thread_critical = 1;
+	rb_funcall(self, rb_intern("install_ruby_sigalrm_handler"), 0);
+	rb_thread_critical = 0;
+}
+
+static void restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler(VALUE self) {
+  rb_thread_critical = 1;
+	rb_funcall(self, rb_intern("restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler"), 0);
+  rb_thread_critical = 0;
+}
+
+
+static VALUE debug_enabled_p(VALUE self) {
+	return debug_enabled ? Qtrue : Qfalse;
+}
+
+static VALUE enable_debug(VALUE self) {
+	debug_enabled = 1;
+	return Qnil;
+}
+
+static VALUE disable_debug(VALUE self) {
+	debug_enabled = 0;
+	return Qnil;	
+}
+
+static void log_debug(char* message) 
+{
+	if (0 != debug_enabled) {
+		printf("%s\n", message);
+	}
+	return;
+}
+
+static void log_error(char* message, int display_errno)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", message, display_errno ? strerror(errno) : "");
+	return;
+}
+
+/*
+ * The intent is to clear SIG_ALRM signals at the Ruby level (green threads),
+ * eventually triggering existing SIG_ALRM handler as a courtesy.
+ * 
+ * As we cannot access trap_pending_list outside of signal.c our best fallback option
+ * is to trigger all pending signals at the Ruby level (potentially triggering
+ * green thread scheduling).
+ */
+static void clear_pending_sigalrm_for_ruby_threads()
+{
+	CHECK_INTS;
+	log_debug("Succesfully triggered all pending signals at Green Thread level");
+}
+
+static void init_sigalarm_mask() 
+{
+	sigemptyset(&sigalarm_mask);
+	sigaddset(&sigalarm_mask, SIGALRM);
+	return;
+}
+
+static void set_itimerval(struct itimerval *value, int seconds) {
+	value->it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
+  value->it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
+	value->it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+  value->it_value.tv_sec = seconds; // (long int) 
+	return;
+}
+
+void Init_system_timer_native() 
+{
+	init_sigalarm_mask();
+  rb_cSystemTimer = rb_define_module("SystemTimer");
+	rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cSystemTimer, "install_timer", 	install_timer, 1);
+	rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cSystemTimer, "cleanup_timer", 	cleanup_timer, 0);
+	rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cSystemTimer, "debug_enabled?", debug_enabled_p, 0);
+	rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cSystemTimer, "enable_debug", 	enable_debug, 0);
+	rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cSystemTimer, "disable_debug",	disable_debug, 0);
+}

data/lib/system_timer.rb

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'timeout'
+
+# Timer based on underlying SIGALRM system timers, is a
+# solution to Ruby processes which hang beyond the time limit when accessing
+# external resources. This is useful when timeout.rb, which relies on green
+# threads, does not work consistently.
+#
+# == Usage
+#
+#   require 'systemtimer'
+#
+#   SystemTimer.timeout_after(5) do
+#
+#     # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
+#     # ... even if blocked on a system call!
+#
+#   end
+#
+module SystemTimer 
+ class << self
+   
+   # Executes the method's block. If the block execution terminates before 
+   # +seconds+ seconds has passed, it returns true. If not, it terminates 
+   # the execution and raises a +Timeout::Error+.
+   def timeout_after(seconds)
+     install_timer(seconds)
+     return yield
+   ensure
+     cleanup_timer
+   end
+
+   # Backward compatibility with timeout.rb
+   alias timeout timeout_after 
+   
+   protected
+   
+   def install_ruby_sigalrm_handler                 #:nodoc:
+     timed_thread = Thread.current  # Ruby signals are always delivered to main thread by default.
+     @original_ruby_sigalrm_handler = trap('SIGALRM') do
+        log_timeout_received(timed_thread) if SystemTimer.debug_enabled?
+        timed_thread.raise Timeout::Error.new("time's up!")
+      end
+   end
+  
+   def restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler        #:nodoc:
+     trap('SIGALRM', original_ruby_sigalrm_handler || 'DEFAULT')
+   ensure
+     reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler
+   end
+   
+   def original_ruby_sigalrm_handler               #:nodoc:
+     @original_ruby_sigalrm_handler
+   end
+ 
+   def reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler         #:nodoc:
+     @original_ruby_sigalrm_handler = nil
+   end
+
+   def log_timeout_received(timed_thread)          #:nodoc:
+     puts <<-EOS
+       install_ruby_sigalrm_handler: Got Timeout in #{Thread.current}
+           Main thread  : #{Thread.main}
+           Timed_thread : #{timed_thread}
+           All Threads  : #{Thread.list.inspect}
+     EOS
+   end
+ end
+
+end
+
+require 'system_timer_native'

data/lib/system_timer_stub.rb

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'timeout'
+
+module SystemTimer 
+ class << self
+
+   def timeout_after(seconds)
+     Timeout::timeout(seconds) do
+       yield
+     end
+   end
+   
+ end
+ 
+end

data/test/all_tests.rb

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+Dir["#{File.dirname __FILE__}/*_test.rb"].each { |test_case| require test_case }

data/test/system_timer_test.rb

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+# $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../ext/xray'
+ $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib'
+ $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../ext/system_timer'
+ $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../../vendor/gems/dust-0.1.4/lib"
+ $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../../vendor/gems/mocha-0.5.3/lib"
+require 'test/unit'
+require 'system_timer'
+require 'dust'
+require 'mocha'
+require 'stringio'
+
+functional_tests do
+      
+  test "original_ruby_sigalrm_handler is nil after reset" do
+    SystemTimer.send(:install_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send(:reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    assert_nil SystemTimer.send(:original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+  end  
+  
+  test "original_ruby_sigalrm_handler is set to existing handler after install_ruby_sigalrm_handler" do
+    SystemTimer.expects(:trap).with('SIGALRM').returns(:an_existing_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send(:install_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    assert_equal :an_existing_handler, SystemTimer.send(:original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+  end
+  
+  test "restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler traps sigalrm using original_ruby_sigalrm_handler" do
+    SystemTimer.stubs(:original_ruby_sigalrm_handler).returns(:the_original_handler)
+    SystemTimer.expects(:trap).with('SIGALRM', :the_original_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send :restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler
+  end  
+
+  test "restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler resets original_ruby_sigalrm_handler" do
+    SystemTimer.stubs(:trap)
+    SystemTimer.expects(:reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send :restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler
+  end  
+
+  test "restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler reset SIGALRM handler to default when original_ruby_sigalrm_handler is nil" do
+    SystemTimer.stubs(:original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    SystemTimer.expects(:trap).with('SIGALRM', 'DEFAULT')
+    SystemTimer.stubs(:reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send :restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler
+  end  
+  
+  test "restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler resets original_ruby_sigalrm_handler when trap raises" do
+    SystemTimer.stubs(:trap).returns(:the_original_handler)
+    SystemTimer.send(:install_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+    SystemTimer.expects(:trap).raises("next time maybe...")
+    SystemTimer.expects(:reset_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler)
+
+    SystemTimer.send(:restore_original_ruby_sigalrm_handler) rescue nil
+  end  
+
+  test "timeout_after raises TimeoutError if block takes too long" do
+    assert_raises(Timeout::Error) do
+      SystemTimer.timeout_after(1) {sleep 5}
+    end
+  end
+  
+  test "timeout_after does not raises Timeout Error if block completes in time" do
+    SystemTimer.timeout_after(5) {sleep 1}
+  end
+  
+  test "timeout_after returns the value returned by the black" do
+    assert_equal :block_value, SystemTimer.timeout_after(1) {:block_value}
+  end
+
+  test "timeout_after raises TimeoutError in thread that called timeout_after" do
+    raised_thread = nil
+    other_thread = Thread.new do 
+      begin
+        SystemTimer.timeout_after(1) {sleep 5}
+        flunk "Should have timed out"
+      rescue Timeout::Error
+        raised_thread = Thread.current
+      end
+    end
+    
+    other_thread.join 
+    assert_equal other_thread, raised_thread
+  end
+  
+  test "cancelling a timer that was installed restores previous ruby handler for SIG_ALRM" do    
+    begin
+      fake_original_ruby_handler = proc {}
+      initial_ruby_handler = trap "SIGALRM", fake_original_ruby_handler
+      SystemTimer.install_timer(3)
+      SystemTimer.cleanup_timer
+      assert_equal fake_original_ruby_handler, trap("SIGALRM", "IGNORE")    
+    ensure  # avoid interfering with test infrastructure
+      trap("SIGALRM", initial_ruby_handler) if initial_ruby_handler  
+    end
+  end
+   
+  test "debug_enabled returns true after enabling debug" do
+    begin
+      SystemTimer.disable_debug
+      SystemTimer.enable_debug
+      assert_equal true, SystemTimer.debug_enabled?
+    ensure
+      SystemTimer.disable_debug
+    end
+  end 
+  
+  test "debug_enabled returns false after disable debug" do
+    begin
+      SystemTimer.enable_debug
+      SystemTimer.disable_debug
+      assert_equal false, SystemTimer.debug_enabled?
+    ensure
+      SystemTimer.disable_debug
+    end 
+  end
+  
+  test "timeout offers an API fully compatible with timeout.rb" do
+    assert_raises(Timeout::Error) do
+      SystemTimer.timeout(1) {sleep 5}
+    end
+  end
+  
+end

metadata

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+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
+name: system_timer
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+  version: "1.0"
+platform: ruby
+authors: []
+
+autorequire: system_timer
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+
+date: 2008-05-26 00:00:00 -07:00
+default_executable: 
+dependencies: []
+
+description: 
+email: 
+executables: []
+
+extensions: 
+- ext/system_timer/extconf.rb
+extra_rdoc_files: 
+- README
+files: 
+- COPYING
+- LICENSE
+- ChangeLog
+- ext/system_timer/system_timer_native.c
+- ext/system_timer/extconf.rb
+- lib/system_timer.rb
+- lib/system_timer_stub.rb
+- test/all_tests.rb
+- test/system_timer_test.rb
+- README
+has_rdoc: true
+homepage: 
+post_install_message: 
+rdoc_options: 
+- --title
+- SystemTimer
+- --main
+- README
+- --line-numbers
+require_paths: 
+- lib
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+requirements: []
+
+rubyforge_project: 
+rubygems_version: 1.0.1
+signing_key: 
+specification_version: 2
+summary: Set a Timeout based on signals, which are more reliable than Timeout. Timeout is based on green threads.
+test_files: 
+- test/all_tests.rb