[PROTON-1176] Core dump if reactor creation fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.18.1
• Component/s: python-binding
• Labels: crash
• Assignee: Alan Conway
• Reporter: Clifford Jansen
• Created: 12/Apr/16 22:53
• Updated: 06/Nov/17 15:24
• Resolved: 23/Oct/17 19:23

Description

If a BlockingConnection fails creating a reactor from Proton-C, the wrapper constructor for the container fails on a null "impl" value, causing a core dump rather than an exception.

This can happen if the process runs out of file descriptors and cannot allocate the self-pipes needed by the reactor.

Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319165