Closed Bug 610384 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

nsIThread#dispatch fails silently from JS

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 610381

People

(Reporter: kmag, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101107 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101107 Firefox/4.0b8pre                     

Dispatching a runnable to a nsIThread seems to fail silently no matter how it's invoked. No exception is thrown, and nothing appears in the error console, but execution continues as if the function had succeeded.

let t = Services.tm.newThread(0);
let a = {};
t.dispatch({ run: function () { a.b = 12; } }, t.DISPATCH_SYNC);
dump("a: " + Object.keys(a) + "\n"); // Prints: a: 


Reproducible: Always
Sorry, I had a browser freeze and I didn't realize that the first submission went through.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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