StdinReader: Improve exception handling

This corrects a misleading comment "EOF check is necessary for certain
systems" which was added without complete understanding of the root
cause of #442. That issue was in fact caused by old xmobars not being
terminated on early EOF, and is thus necessary on _all_ systems that
rely on EOF to terminate old xmobar before starting a new one. (To
trigger the bug, one additionally needs to close the xmobar pipe before
sending any input to it, which is unusual, but incorrectly configured
xmonad might trigger that.)

Furthermore, this fixes another execution path that could lead to xmobar
not being terminated on EOF:

`echo -e '\xff' | xmobar -c '[Run StdinReader]' -t '%StdinReader%'`
would terminate the StdinReader thread upon catching the "invalid
argument (invalid byte sequence)" so there'd be no thread to detect the
subsequent EOF and xmobar would get stuck.

Additionally, I believe that terminating either the thread or the entire
xmobar upon receiving a single miscoded byte isn't desirable, as this
might be an intermittent issue and another input line can be perfectly
okay. Therefore I suggest that the original issue @psibi was trying to
fix by b7a3d6745817 is worked around by introducing a throttling delay
instead of terminating the thread, as I assume that exceptions other
than async and EOF are recoverable.

Fixes: b7a3d6745817 ("Avoid busy looping by not catching all exceptions")
Fixes: 68ac4d3ae6f3 ("Update stderr and the bar on receiving exception")
Fixes: ed0663aac942 ("Add EOF check before getLine operation from stdin")
Fixes: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/442
Related: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/439
Related: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/448

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/Xmobar/Plugins/StdinReader.hs b/src/Xmobar/Plugins/StdinReader.hs
index a29c1ad..4d5c438 100644
--- a/src/Xmobar/Plugins/StdinReader.hs
+++ b/src/Xmobar/Plugins/StdinReader.hs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-}
+
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- |
 -- Module      :  Plugins.StdinReader
@@ -22,30 +24,36 @@ import Prelude
 import System.Posix.Process
 import System.Exit
 import System.IO
+import System.IO.Error (isEOFError)
 import Xmobar.Run.Exec
 import Xmobar.X11.Actions (stripActions)
-import Xmobar.System.Utils (onSomeException)
-import Control.Monad (when)
+import Control.Concurrent (threadDelay)
+import Control.Exception
+import Control.Monad (forever)
 
 data StdinReader = StdinReader | UnsafeStdinReader
   deriving (Read, Show)
 
 instance Exec StdinReader where
-  start stdinReader cb = do
-    -- The EOF check is necessary for certain systems
-    -- More details here https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/442
-    eof <- isEOF
-    when eof $
-      do hPrint stderr "xmobar: eof at an early stage"
-         exitImmediately ExitSuccess
-    s <-
-      getLine `onSomeException`
-      (\e -> do
-         let errorMessage = "xmobar: Received exception " <> show e
-         hPrint stderr errorMessage
-         cb errorMessage)
-    cb $ escape stdinReader s
-    start stdinReader cb
+  start stdinReader cb = forever $ (cb . escape stdinReader =<< getLine) `catch` handler
+    where
+      -- rethrow async exceptions like ThreadKilled, etc.
+      handler (fromException -> Just e) = throwIO (e :: SomeAsyncException)
+      -- XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog.statusBar starts new xmobar on every xmonad
+      -- reload and the old xmobar is only signalled to exit via the pipe
+      -- being closed, so we must unconditionally terminate on EOF, otherwise
+      -- there'd be a pileup of xmobars
+      handler (fromException -> Just e) | isEOFError e = exitImmediately ExitSuccess
+      -- any other exception, like "invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)",
+      -- is logged to both stderr and the bar itself, throttled to avoid
+      -- excessive CPU usage whenever someone pipes garbage into xmobar, and
+      -- then discarded without terminating, so a single charset error doesn't
+      -- break the entire xmobar
+      handler e = do
+        let errorMessage = "xmobar: Received exception " <> show e
+        hPutStrLn stderr errorMessage
+        cb $ stripActions errorMessage
+        threadDelay 1000000
 
 escape :: StdinReader -> String -> String
 escape StdinReader = stripActions