Assertion failure when passing immutable array to stream read operation

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Run this in the VM (ArrayIsNotArray.dart):
   void main() {
     Process p = new Process('/bin/bash', ['-c', 'seq -s: 1 10']);
     p.setExitHandler((int status) {
         print('exit($status)');
         p.close();
       });
     
     p.start();
     p.stdoutStream.read([null], 0, 1, null);
   }

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
$ dart ArrayIsNotArray.dart
exit(0)

Instead I get:
$ dart ArrayIsNotArray.dart
dart: ../runtime/bin/socket.cc:42: void Builtin_Socket_ReadList(void*): Assertion `Dart_IsArray(buffer_obj)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

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[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Added Triaged label.

[madsager]

cc @sgjesse.
cc @whesse.
Set owner to @madsager.
Added Accepted label.
Changed the title to: "Process library should accept all types of lists of arguments.".

[madsager]

Passing in an immutable array to read should throw an exception instead of asserting that the input is an array.

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Changed the title to: "Assertion failure when passing immutable array to stream read operation".

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Yes. But [null] is not an immutable array.

[madsager]

Yeah, looking at it now. There is something pretty fishy about the array checks going on here. Thanks.

[madsager]

Added Fixed label.