From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-06-19T18:45:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread Problems - Random Segfaults

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I have no idea, but if you send me your program I can test it ona Sun 
SPARC with Ruby 1.8.0.  If it runs here you can try moving up to 1.8.0.

Do I need anything special other than Ruby to run your application?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:40:32PM +0900, Stefan Arentz wrote:
> 
> I have a thread-intensive application that gives random segfaults. They occur at
> random places in both my own code and third party code.
> 
>  ./dhcp.rb:34: [BUG] Segmentation fault
>  /sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/http-access2.rb:676: [BUG] Segmentation fault
>  /sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/nqxml/entities.rb:18: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> 
> My code is not very special, it is mostly threads that sleep and wake up to do
> a SOAP call or a DRb call. All shared data is protected with a mutex.
> 
> Are threads known to be buggy?
> 
> My platform is OS X 10.2.6 with Ruby 1.6.7:
> 
>  ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.6]
> 
> S.

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