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Detect asynchronous exceptions via their types haskell#187
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This commit uses the same async-exception detection mechanism as is used
by the safe-exceptions package, via checking if the given exception is
cast to a SomeAsyncException. (On older GHCs without SomeAsyncException,
it contains a hard-coded list of async exception types.) It then ensures
that:

* Throwing via throwChecked always generates a synchronous exception
* Catching via catchChecked (et al) never catches an asynchronous
  exception

Unfortunately, I don't currently have a reliable test case to ensure
that this fixes the problems described in haskell#187. Hopefully with this
patch available we can begin testing cabal-install and Stack against the
change and see if it resolves the issues.
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snoyberg committed Feb 13, 2018
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{-# LANGUAGE IncoherentInstances #-}
#endif

{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable#-}

-- | Checked exceptions
module Hackage.Security.Util.Checked (
Throws
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import Control.Exception (Exception, IOException)
import qualified Control.Exception as Base
import Data.Typeable (Typeable)

#if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 708
import GHC.Prim (coerce)
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Base exceptions
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------}

-- | Determine if an exception is asynchronous, based on its type.
isAsync :: Exception e => e -> Bool
#if MIN_VERSION_base(4, 7, 0)
isAsync e =
case Base.fromException $ Base.toException e of
Just Base.SomeAsyncException{} -> True
Nothing -> False
#else
-- Earlier versions of GHC had no SomeAsyncException. We have to
-- instead make up a list of async exceptions.
isAsync e =
let se = Base.toException e
in case () of
()
| Just (_ :: Base.AsyncException) <- Base.fromException se -> True
| Just (_ :: Base.Deadlock) <- Base.fromException se -> True
| Just (_ :: Base.BlockedIndefinitelyOnSTM) <- Base.fromException se -> True
| Just (_ :: Base.BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar) <- Base.fromException se -> True
| otherwise -> False
#endif

-- | 'Base.catch', but immediately rethrows asynchronous exceptions
-- (as determined by 'isAsync').
catchSync :: Exception e => IO a -> (e -> IO a) -> IO a
catchSync act onErr = act `Base.catch` \e ->
if isAsync e
then Base.throwIO e
else onErr e

-- | Wraps up an async exception as a synchronous exception.
newtype SyncException = SyncException Base.SomeException
deriving (Show, Typeable)
instance Exception SyncException

-- | Throw a checked exception
throwChecked :: (Exception e, Throws e) => e -> IO a
throwChecked = Base.throwIO
throwChecked e
| isAsync e = Base.throwIO $ SyncException $ Base.toException e
| otherwise = Base.throwIO e

-- | Catch a checked exception
catchChecked :: forall a e. Exception e
=> (Throws e => IO a) -> (e -> IO a) -> IO a
catchChecked act = Base.catch (unthrow (Proxy :: Proxy e) act)
catchChecked act = catchSync (unthrow (Proxy :: Proxy e) act)

-- | 'catchChecked' with the arguments reversed
handleChecked :: Exception e => (e -> IO a) -> (Throws e => IO a) -> IO a
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