[whatwg] Storage mutex and cookies can lead to browser deadlock

[Drew Wilson]

We discussed this in more detail here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/whatwg@lists.whatwg.org/msg13799.html

At the time, I suggested not protecting cookies with a mutex (allow
asynchronous access - the current behavior on IE and Chrome), which made the
monocles pop out of everyone's eyes :)

-atw

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jens Alfke <snej at google.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Drew Wilson wrote:
>
>  My recollection is that we prohibit worker access to cookies for exactly
>> this reason (WorkerGlobalScope does not expose a "cookies" attribute).
>>
>
> Looks like you're right; section 5 of the Web Workers spec says:
>
>> The DOM APIs (Node objects, Document objects, etc) are not available to
>> workers in this version of this specification.
>>
>>  and there's no defined way to access cookies except through Document.
> Crisis averted.
>
> (If the spec does get modified to allow local-storage access from worker
> threads, though, this same problem will arise, since they use the same
> lock.)
>
> —Jens
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