Marcus.CM schrieb:
Hi,
I use the following ctype to load a .so library in Linux.
vr = ctypes.CDLL(sstr)
And the following to release it so that i can reload the library without
quiting the python script.
_ctypes.dlclose(vr._handle)
These calls are guarded by a writer lock and access to it guarded by a
reader lock which i got from recipe :
The problem is during the re-loading of the library
occasionally the python script will abort with "Segmentation Fault".
This is like 1 out of 10 times it can happen and that
is good enough to kill the application.
Is there any reason to this or how to do i prevent it?
Short answer: yes, there is a reason, no, you can't prevent it.
Of course there is a reason for this. Segfaults don't happen by
chance... And one can't prevent segfaults from killing the interpreter,
because the OS is responsible for that.
Now what would I do?
- don't care. Or does the DLL frequently change when the program is
deployed? Or to ask different: why do you need unloading/reloading at all?
- debug it. Write a script that exposes the behavior. The fire up GDB
with python, do "set args <myscript>" and run. When the segfault occurs,
look into the traceback with "bt". If the problem is in the DLL-code,
see what's causing it. If it's in ctypes (or the python-interpreter) -
well, there is a ctypes mailing lisk to ask for help.
Diez
