On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 12:53 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: [...] > > I think it works now, because Apple switched to a different SSL > > library for libcurl. It usually crashes or fails on older macOS > > versions, with the CRAN build of R as well. > > > > That is not true - Apple has not changed the SSL back-end for many years. The > issue in that post is presumably in the homebrew version of SSL.
This is CRAN R 3.6.2 on El Capitan crashing for HTTPS. Homebrew is not installed on the machine. > download.file("https://httpbin.org/status/200", tempfile(), method = > "libcurl") trying URL 'https://httpbin.org/status/200' downloaded 0 bytes > parallel::mclapply(1:10, function(x) > download.file("https://httpbin.org/status/200", tempfile(), method = > "libcurl")) trying URL 'https://httpbin.org/status/200' trying URL 'https://httpbin.org/status/200' *** caught segfault *** address 0x110, cause 'memory not mapped' I assume the crash is coming from the SSL library/ies because it does work for HTTP, only crashes for HTTPS. FWIW these are the libraries the system libcurl uses on El Capitan: Rhubs-Mac-3:macoscheck rhub$ otool -L /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib: /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 8.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 57332.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1231.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/LDAP.framework/Versions/A/LDAP (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 2.4.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/Kerberos (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 6.0.0) /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1225.0.0) and this is Mojave: ❯ otool -L /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib: /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 9.0.0) /usr/lib/libcrypto.42.dylib (compatibility version 43.0.0, current version 43.0.0) /usr/lib/libssl.44.dylib (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 45.1.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/LDAP.framework/Versions/A/LDAP (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 2.4.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/Kerberos (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 6.0.0) /usr/lib/libapple_nghttp2.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.24.1) /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.11) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1252.250.1) So the SSL libs do look different to me, but please FIXME. Relatedly, on El Capitan an HTTPS download with download.file() starts up extra threads, whereas on Mojave it does not. Gabor > Cheers, > Simon [...] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel