[Xapian-discuss] Perl threads and Xapian - incompatibility?

[Ron Kass]

Brilliant.

And good to see that in the process we get Perl better as well :)

Hope (while not holding my breath) Perl 6 coming soon doesn't carry its 
own set of glitches with it..


Best regards,

Ron



Olly Betts wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 04:30:46AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
>   
>> I just had a go at writing a testcase to ensure this works, but some
>> classes still SEGV.  I suspect its those which are implemented only by
>> XS code.  I'll investigate.
>>     
>
> Yes, it was indeed just the Stem class which was only an XS wrapper.
>
> I've now added CLONE_SKIP subs to all the classes and written a test
> which checks that this actually works.
>
> It appears Perl 5.8.8 has a bug - the documentation says they're copied
> as unblessed undef values, but they aren't undef.  I've filed a bug
> report in Perl's bug system, but this doesn't stop this being useful.
>
> So this should be resolved in Search::Xapian 1.0.4.0, which I've just
> uploaded to CPAN.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>