Re: [libxml-devel] Random crashes

2008-03-05 Thread Trans
Seeing that no one else has responded, I take as my cue to raise a red flag. I haven't talked to Dan about this, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, that after following this project for many years now -- not to mention personally working to revitalize it TWICE, I've come to the conclusion t

Re: [libxml-devel] Random crashes

2008-03-05 Thread Keith Fahlgren
On 3/5/08 7:19 AM, Trans wrote: > While problems could be arising from libXML2 itself I suspect that it > is not generally the case, which makes me wonder how libxml-ruby is > actually designed under the hood. Just for the record, I've never had these problems with the Python libxml2 binding 'l

Re: [libxml-devel] Random crashes

2008-03-05 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Trans, Thanks for replying. Although your answer doesn't help solve my problem with libxml-ruby it does give me a sense that it's going to take long to get this fixed. At least I can start rewriting my schemas in Relax NG now, so that I can meet my application production rollout deadline. Saurab

Re: [libxml-devel] Random crashes

2008-03-05 Thread Sean Chittenden
> Seeing that no one else has responded I don't know if it's been nixed or not, but the is_shadow concept is fundamentally broken in any sophisticated workload. Every operation needs to return a copy. I initially did the shadow bits for speed reasons (object thrash), which satisfied my wor

Re: [libxml-devel] Random crashes

2008-03-05 Thread Marc Munro
As someone who has experienced a good number of these crashes, who has attempted to track them down, and who has at least some C experience, I would like to make a recommendation. From my own reading and limited understanding of the code I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong. At lea