Re: Python binding SIGABRT/SIGSEGV

[Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>]

Austin Lund venit, vidit, dixit 2022-02-10 23:21:58:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:12:47PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > Austin Lund venit, vidit, dixit 2022-02-10 06:56:12:
> > > I'm clearly doing this python code wrong by not using the iterator correctly:
> > > 
> > > > import notmuch2
> > > > 
> > > > d = notmuch2.Database()
> > > > m = list(d.messages("since:today"))
> > > > p = m[0].path
> > > > print(p)
> > > 
> > > But I seem to be getting a SIGABRT instead of a python stack trace.  Is
> > > this the expected behaviour?
> > 
> > You didn't expect it :)
> > 
> > And this can be confusing. d.messages() returns an iterator through
> > Message objects whose lifetime depends on the iterator. In contrast,
> > thread.get_messages() returns on iterator through OwnedMessage objects
> > whose lifetime depends on the thread.
> 
> I guess I didn't say it explicitly, but I would 'expect' the python
> interpreter to raise an exception rather than having an unhandled
> exception terminate the program.  Perhaps raising a MemoryError or
> ReferenceError or some other exception would be better than an unhandled
> SIGABRT.
> 

In fact you did. Sorry for overlooking this. (I still find db.messages()
vs thread.get_messages() confusing.)

The way memory handling works, one could even expect a more specific
notmuch2.ObjectDestroyedError.

As for the SIGABRT: I guess this is what "python -X faulthandler" is
for, especially in the context of C extension modules:

LANG=C python -X faulthandler t.py
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007f5bf667e740 (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/notmuch2/_message.py", line
131 in path
  File "/tmp/t.py", line 5 in <module>

Extension modules: _cffi_backend (total: 1)
Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben)

(Yes, it disrespects LANG)

Line 131 is

ret = capi.lib.notmuch_message_get_filename(self._msg_p)

in the path method, and since _msg_p is a base.MemoryPointer() I would
have hoped (now) to get a notmuch2.ObjectDestroyedError. Maybe _msg_p is
destroyed but the Message object is not? Fishing in the dark here ...

Michael

P.S.: Sorry for the repeated message. I had problems with list bounces
in the past, then remembered the original alias wrong, then replied to
the reply to the wrong (only off-list-delivered) post. git@grubix.eu is
the one subscribed to the list. I'll remember now.