[pylucene-dev] Infinite recursion causes segfault

[Andi Vajda]

On Mar 8, 2008, at 8:05, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:

> When lucene has been imported & initVM'd, inifinite recursion causes a
> segfault, even if the recursing function doesn't use lucene.
>
> In [1]: import lucene
>
> In [2]: lucene.initVM(lucene.CLASSPATH)
> Out[2]: <jcc.JCCEnv object at 0xb7e18300>
>
> In [3]: def f():
>   ...:     return f()
>   ...:
>
> In [4]: f()
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Without initializing lucene VM:
>
> <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: maximum recursion depth exceeded
>
> Strangeness.
>

Try initVM(vmargs='-Xrs') which affects how java uses signals. Another  
thing that could affect this is how much stack you give java with -Xms  
(also maxstack) increasing it may give you your Python exception back.

Andi..

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