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Re: apr_hash_overlay returns hash with duplicate keys

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:20:24 +0000

 Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On 10 December 2015 at 19:14, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> APR devs, Subversion devs:
>>
>> On Subversion's Mac OS buildbots it appears that apr_hash_overlay()
>> sometimes returns a hash containing duplicate keys, which (as I
>> understand it) should be impossible.
>>
>> We had an issue where some 'svnmover' tests were failing only on Mac
>> OS buildbots. I added some debugging in Subversion commits r1719056,
>> r1719067, r1719072, r1719074.
>>
>> Buildbot result:
>> https://ci.apache.org/builders/svn-x64-macosx-bdb/builds/485/steps/Test%20ra_svn%2Bbdb
>> --> debug output in 'faillog' shows duplicate keys in hash:
>> "union_children={A, iota, foo, boozle, boozle, iota}"
>>
>> I replaced apr_hash_overlay() with my own simple re-implementation:
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/r1719089 -- re-implement hash overlay
>>
> Hi Julian,
>
> That could be possible if two hashes uses different hash functions.
> This could happen if you're using svn_hash__make() directly or
> indirectly: for example RA get_dirent for svn:// protocol returns hash
> with non-standard hash-function.

Ugh. Yes, that is probably the cause. Thanks.

I can see now that the doc string of apr_hash_overlay() does say "Both
hash tables must use the same hash function" but that was not obvious,
and I had totally forgotten that our Subversion code was using more
than one hash function.

I will use my own hash overlay function from now on.

- Julian
Received on 2015-12-10 18:20:48 CET

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