[R] Extension provokes crash in unzReadCurrentFile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark White wrote:

> I'm doing some work in C with the R_ExternalPointer
> interface, and having some seg fault problems.  I expect the
> crash is my fault, bad pointer in my code causing a fault
> later etc, but I'm curious about the point of failure.
> 
> R almost always falls over in a call to unzReadCurrentFile
> following a burst of disk activity.  I'm definitely not
> doing anything that would call that explicitly, and I don't
> notice the bursts of disk activity in similar work without
> using my package.
> 
> Any idea what might be causing a compressed file read?

It's not a compressed file read, but rather from the interface for unz()  
connections to zip files.  That is very unlikely to be used on a
non-Windows system, so if that really is being called this looks like
considerable internal corruption.

> Something to do with lazy loading, maybe?  I've tried
> disabling it in the package description without success.
> 
> This is R 2.0.0 on NetBSD/i386.

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