bsddb module bug?: doesn't release locks and seg faults
Jane Austine
janeaustine50 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 13 23:12:44 EDT 2003
There is a test code named test_env_close in bsddb/test, but it
doesn't test the case thoroughly. There seems to be a bug in closing
the db environment first -- the lock is not released, and sometimes it
seg-faults.
Following is the code that shows this bug.
<code>
import os
from bsddb import db
dir,dbname='test_dbenv','test_db'
def getDbEnv(dir):
try:
os.mkdir(dir)
except:
pass
dbenv = db.DBEnv()
dbenv.open(dir, db.DB_INIT_CDB| db.DB_CREATE |db.DB_INIT_MPOOL)
return dbenv
def getDbHandler(db_env,db_name):
d = db.DB(dbenv)
d.open(db_name, db.DB_BTREE, db.DB_CREATE)
return d
dbenv=getDbEnv(dir)
assert dbenv.lock_stat()['nlocks']==0
d=getDbHandler(dbenv,dbname)
assert dbenv.lock_stat()['nlocks']==1
try:
dbenv.close()
except db.DBError:
pass
else:
assert 0
del d
import gc
gc.collect()
dbenv=getDbEnv(dir)
assert dbenv.lock_stat()['nlocks']==0,'number of current locks should
be 0' #this fails
</code>
If you close dbenv before db handler, the lock is not released.
Moreover, try this with dbshelve and it segfaults.
<code>
>>> from bsddb import dbshelve
>>> dbenv2=getDbEnv('test_dbenv2')
>>> d2=dbshelve.open(dbname,dbenv=dbenv2)
>>> try:
... dbenv2.close()
... except db.DBError:
... pass
... else:
... assert 0
...
>>>
>>>
Exception bsddb._db.DBError: (0, 'DBEnv object has been closed') in
Segmentation fault
</code>
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