[Python-Dev] bsddb3 test hang (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:39:00 -0400

Over on the spambayes-dev mailing list, Richie Hindle presents a program that makes bsddb3 go insane:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes-dev/2003-July/000519.html

He was on Win98SE. I got the same "corrupted database" symptom several times on Win2K using the same program, but never the "illegal instruction" symptom.

This throws multiple threads at a Berkely hash DB. It's clear as snot whether that's supported. Contrary to a followup msg, it looks like the Python hashopen() call always forces the DB_THREAD flag into the mix, so the absence of DB_THREAD probably isn't the problem.