hyc@openldap.org wrote:

Full_Name: Howard Chu Version: HEAD OS: Linux URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (195.235.15.200) Submitted by: hyc

I ran into some corruption problems when running a 64bit LMDB process concurrent with a 32bit one using MDB_VL32. While LMDB's own structures are all 64bit clean in a VL32 build, unfortunately pthread_mutex_t structures are not. In particular, in glibc a pthread_mutex_t can be one of 3 different sizes - 24 bytes for 32bit runtime on 32bit processor, 32 bytes for 32bit runtime on x86-64, and 40 bytes for 64bit runtime on x86-64. As such, we cannot safely share an LMDB environment between 32 and 64bit Linux processes, even when using MDB_VL32.

This problem doesn't affect Windows, platforms using SysV semaphores, or platforms using POSIX named semaphores. I don't currently know whether this is a problem on other platforms that support POSIX process-shared mutexes.

For glibc, I've submitted an enhancement request regarding mutex sizes:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21119