[ruby-core:83781] Re: [Ruby trunk Bug#14108] Seg Fault with MinGW on svn 60769

Hi, Eric,

In message "[ruby-core:83779] Re: [Ruby trunk Bug#14108] Seg Fault with MinGW on svn 60769"
  on Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:12:42 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> > You can see our implementation of readdir on Windows in
> > win32/win32.c (rb_w32_readdir).
> > I doubt the second argument (rb_encoding *enc) is the cause.

As Nobu said at [ruby-core:83776] (thank you Nobu!), my guess was wrong
and the cause was touching GVL before running VM.
Therefore r60770 is the right way to resolve the problem.


> Right, enc is no problem.  The problem is using DIR * from stdio
> is not reentrant or thread-safe.  readdir_r is deprecated, even,
> and so it is up to the application to provide thread-safety when
> reading directories.

Our readdir implementation for Win32 is expected to be thread-safe.
And, it seems that there is no platform which uses non thread-safe
readdir.


> Usually on modern platforms (but not guaranteed), readdir on
> different DIR * pointers is safe from multiple threads, so maybe
> we can add a mutex to "struct dir_data".
> 
> I will revert r60772, r60770, and r60769 for now...

So, IMO you don't need to revert them.
(but this mail is too late...)


Regards,
-- 
U.Nakamaura <[e-mail]>


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