abort(3) in libc/db/btree/bt_split.c

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:06:16PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> 
> I found there are abort(3)s in bt_split.c (found by ruby18/portupgrade
> dumping core).
> 
> It seems flags in data structure which ruby uses are corrupted, but
> abort(3) is not helpful for usual users.
> 
> So I think __bt_split() (and other functions in this file) should
> return RET_ERROR, or write a dying message before abort(3).
> 
> I'd like to try to code returing RET_ERROR (with internal tree
> cleanup) if that is the way to go.

Have you checked if they were fixed in subsequent SleepyCat DB 1.x
releases to return error instead of dump core, so we could use a vendor
fix?

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