apr cleanup unloads neon library too soon in git-svn

Hi!

For the full details and several stack traces, please refer to
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223747

The problem is that in some cases (running git-svn) when the APR cleanup
(apr_terminate) cleans its pools (apr_pool_destroy), it will unload
shared libraries (libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0) while there are still neon
objects around. When the cleanup tries to clean those, their cleanup
function (cleanup_session) is no longer available, which causes a
segmentation fault.

I see two possible solutions. One is to have the APR cleanup code ensure
that libraries get unloaded only after all other objects from the
current part of the pool hierarchy have been cleaned. The other would be
to have subversion pool management restructured in some way, such that
the DSO pool gets cleared after the other objects.

As I don't know which solution would be the better one, I post to both
lists, APR and Subversion. Please also have a look at the corresponding
discussion on the other list. I'll try to attach links to the threads in
both mail archives to the Gentoo bug report stated above. Stay tuned.

Greetings,
  Martin von Gagern

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Received on 2008-05-26 23:50:12 CEST