Bug #2220: Hang in dln.c when using 1.8.6-p383 on Snow Leopard

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: wyhaines (Kirk Haines)
• ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2009-08-04 patchlevel 383) [i686-darwin10.0.0]

[pixeltrix (Andrew White)]

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Snow Leopard seems to have introduced some backward compatibility issues with the old NextStep era NSLinkModule group of functions. When trying to load RMagick the process hangs in dln_load and has to be killed using kill -9. The best fix going forward is to switch to dlopen as NSLinkModule has been deprecated since Tiger and is less efficient than dlopen in Snow Leopard.

The attached patch is a backport of r11810:
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=11810

Original Ruby-Core discussion:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/196606
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[wyhaines (Kirk Haines)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
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This issue was solved with changeset r26361.
Andrew, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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