[plt-scheme] sqlite.plt seg faults with 370

The problem may be more general. Earlier I reported seg fault problems 
encounterd on Windows XP home.
I dont need threads to make them happen.
Jos Koot

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Gurnell" <d.j.gurnell at gmail.com>
To: "PLT Scheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] sqlite.plt seg faults with 370


> The Untypers had problems with this a while back. This is my  hypothesis as to 
> what's going on (although it happened to us a year  ago so I may be 
> remembering things wrong):
>
> SQLite can be compiled in thread-safe and non-thread-safe modes  (there's a 
> switch on the compile or make step, I forget which). On  Etch, the default 
> package is non-thread-safe. The Scheme interface  doesn't do anything to 
> correct this, and concurrent queries can cause  segfaults.
>
> You'll probably find that you get more crashes if you're doing lots  of large 
> queries, like selecting hundreds to thousands of rows as a  time, because this 
> increases the chance of multiple queries overlapping.
>
> So... you have options:
>
>   - fix things at the C level;
>   - fix things at the Scheme level (semaphores / channels / etc);
>   - compile your own version of SQLite with thread safety enabled.
>
> You could also try testing your code on OS X - it comes with a thread- safe 
> copy SQLite pre-installed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Dave
>
>>> I had the same problem with sqld-sqlite.plt. I fixed it, using
>>> semaphores. But now I got to think about it. SQLite uses callbacks
>>> from C to Scheme to return query results. Also it uses a callback
>>> function to fix locks. Maybe it has something to do with the moving
>>> GC (pointers get moved around)?
>>
>> The foreign implementation use immobile boxes to make sure that
>> pointers to Scheme callbacks don't change.  But you need to make sure
>> that they are not collected -- for example, avoid (lambda () ...) with
>> no additional references as callbacks.
>>
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