dir: Dir.chdir releases GVL

chdir(2) is subject to all the pathological slowdowns and
caveats as open(2) on slow or unreliable filesystems, so ensure
other threads can proceed while this is happening.

* dir.c (nogvl_chdir): new function

* dir.c (dir_chdir): release GVL

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@60583 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 2c0ff03c53..f8bdf1dfb5 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -967,10 +967,22 @@ dir_close(VALUE dir)
     return Qnil;
 }
 
+static void *
+nogvl_chdir(void *ptr)
+{
+    const char *path = ptr;
+
+    return (void *)(VALUE)chdir(path);
+}
+
 static void
 dir_chdir(VALUE path)
 {
-    if (chdir(RSTRING_PTR(path)) < 0)
+    int r;
+    char *p = RSTRING_PTR(path);
+
+    r = (int)(VALUE)rb_thread_call_without_gvl(nogvl_chdir, p, RUBY_UBF_IO, 0);
+    if (r < 0)
 	rb_sys_fail_path(path);
 }