[Python-Dev] BSDDB3
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Mar 5 22:07:08 CET 2008
> That said, it is my aim to keep bsddb in stdlib, providing a stable and
> featureful module. I think keeping bsddb development inside python svn
> is not appropiate.
I think it would be helpful if you could analyze the crashes that bsddb
caused on Windows. Just go back a few revisions in the subversion tree
to reproduce the crashes.
These were particularly bad since they invoked the CRT abort() inside
bsddb, namely inside __db_win32_mutex_unlock, which, in debug mode,
would __db_panic with "Win32 unlock failed: lock already unlocked".
This problem has now been worked-around, by reformulating the test cases
so that the situation doesn't occur anymore, but IMO, it should not be
possible for an extension module to cause an interpreter abort.
Regards,
Martin
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