Re: [Arx-users] Segfault accessing the publix ArX archive

[Walter Landry]

Walter Landry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Marc Recht <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > It looks like it is having problems deleting the ,,merge_branches temp
> > > directory.  Specifically, it is not deleting all of the contents of a
> > > directory before deleting the directory.  What happens if you comment
> > > out the destructor in src/arx/include/Temp_Directory.hpp (lines 45-48)
> > >
> > 
> > It leaves 62 ,,* (non-empty) directories, but seems to complete.
> 
> Great.  At least we now know where the problem is.  The only thing
> that I can think of is that readdir is not reentrant, so it finished
> the listing of the subdirectory before it is empty.  Someone just
> posted a patch to the Boost web site adding that functionality in.  I
> will update you when I have a patch.

I have a better idea.  How about you change the destructor in
src/arx/include/Temp_Directory.hpp to read

  ~Temp_Directory()
  {
    gvfs::remove_all(path.native_file_string());
  }

and add in

  #include "gvfs.hpp"

near the top.  Does that solve the problem?

Walter