[webkit-dev] WTF::callOnMainThread() and re-entrancy

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

On 08.03.2010, at 11:21, Drew Wilson wrote:

> So, my question is: does it surprise anyone that tasks posted via  
> callOnMainThread() are getting executed even though there's a modal  
> dialog shown? And is there anything I should be doing in my task  
> handler to make sure we aren't re-entering JS execution  
> inappropriately in these cases? I'm just concerned that the way  
> we're posting tasks from worker threads to the main thread may cause  
> reentrancy problems.

It is not correct to deliver messages from worker threads when an  
alert or a modal window is displayed. It may be ok for modal dialogs  
that are triggered asynchronously (such as credentials dialog).

We have a manual test regression for a related issue, WebCore/manual- 
tests/js-timers-beneath-modal-dialog.html. You can compare how timers  
work, and how worker messages are delivered to find out how to fix the  
problem.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov