On 9/5/15, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote: > Hi folks. > > I?m sending this on behalf of Michael Catanzaro, a contributor to the WebKit > open source project, who is working on a WebKit bug report, "Crash when > WebCore::SQLiteFileSystem::openDatabase is called from multiple threads" > <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143245>, which seems to be caused > by an issue in SQLite. In short, we've noticed many applications that use > WebKit crash when sqlite3_initialize is called simultaneously in multiple > threads in the Fedora platform > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201823> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217952> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228391> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207221> despite the fact that > sqlite3_initialize is documented to be thread-safe and called automatically > by the library when needed < https://sqlite.org/c3ref/initialize.html>. > > Michael is planning a workaround in WebKit that will call sqlite3_initialize > manually exactly once before WebKit uses sqlite, using std::once to deal > with the thread safety issue. > > We?d like to file an SQLite bug report about this, and as I understand it, > the proper way for a newcomer to do that is to send mail here. > > In the process of trying to report this, Michael discovered that the page > explaining how to report bugs against SQLite > <https://www.sqlite.org/src/wiki?name=Bug+Reports> lists an incorrect email > address, <sqlite-users at sqlite.org>. Mail to that address is rejected. >
Thanks for the bug report. Code which might fix this has been checked into trunk. I have also corrected the email address on the bug-report procedures page. -- D. Richard Hipp drh at sqlite.org
