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Re: fs_fs core dumps in checksum code

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:16:51 +0100 (BST)

Blair Zajac wrote:
> On 04/13/2012 12:45 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
>> Blair Zajac wrote:
>>> Having the empty files, such as changes, is that odd?  Could that be a
>>> hint?
>>
>> No, that's not interesting, that's just the result of crashing out
>> at the point where it did -- in the middle of doing a commit.
>
> The 'changes' is created during the commit process and not building the
> transaction?  If so, then having an empty changes file is odd and probably only
> possible through the RPCS API we wrote that wraps svn_fs.h and svn_repos.h, in
> which case, could there be a bug with trying to commit empty transactions in a
> multithreaded environment?

Or maybe the commit just got as far as creating the 'changes' file but crashed out before it got around to writing the list of changes into that file and flushing/closing it.

- Julian
Received on 2012-04-16 11:17:28 CEST

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