Bug #18810: Make `Kernel#p` interruptable.

• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN

[ioquatix (Samuel Williams)]

While figuring out https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18465 I found a test which fails when rb_io_flush becomes blocking.: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/fe6b2e20e9f17ed2c2900aa72994e075ffdc7124

It seems unusual to me that Kernel#p is uninterruptible (unique among all Ruby methods). I'd like to make Kernel#p interruptible.

[ioquatix (Samuel Williams)]

PR: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5967

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

Since Kernel#p is a method for debugging, I think this spec would be useful. If it is made interruptable, it will be difficult to use Kernel#p in a block of Thread.handle_interrupt(TimeoutError => :on_blocking).