[erlang-patches] Fix io:xxxx(self()) no return

[Stefan Zegenhagen]

Dear Eric,

> here is a patch that fix the bug I found.
> 
> git fetch https://github.com/crownedgrouse/otp.git
> fix_io_noreturn_with_self_pid

I would like to note that there might be cases where

group_leader() =:= self()

In that case, your patch would cause an infinite loop.

Please note that the pid passed to io:xxx() should be the pid of an I/O
server that speaks the I/O protocol. The io:xxx() functions are not
meant to be passed *ANY* pid.

It surely is bad to have a process lock up easily just by calling
io:xxx(self(), ...), but I'd rather prefer to return {error, enotsup} in
that case. The caller should probably do the call to group_leader() if
it needs to.


Kind regards,

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