Bug #12727: Segfault when subclassing Thread with bad initialize

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.3.0p0
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[sandal (Gregory Brown)]

I imagine that this is a really unlikely problem to encounter in real code, but...

class MyThing < Thread
  def initialize
    raise
  end
end

MyThing.new do
  loop do
    puts "hello"
    sleep(1)
  end
end

sleep

Produces a segfault for me, and I've had someone else confirm as well.

[sandal (Gregory Brown)]

• Subject changed from Segfault when subclassing Thread to Segfault when subclassing Thread with bad initialize

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Is duplicate of Bug #11959: Segfault during `exit' in thread initialize (Extended class). added

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected