Hello,
On Ruby 1.8.7.
Having an odd occasional occurrence of the above error - only some times
so I feel it’s down to timing caused by file buffer issues (maybe!)
I have a Web Server running under Sinatra/Rack. Part of the process
involves a Cache class which is a singleton. This class checks for the
existence of an index file. If the file does exist, then its contents
are loaded, and then Marshal loaded as a hash. If the file does not
exist, then a Hash is created, and Marshal dumped (ro a string), then
written to the index file.
About 1 in 20 times the Marshal.load gives the ‘too short’ message.
Once I get this message it remains. That is, an hour later, long after
the index file has been created the error still happens. I can hexdump
the file but the Web Server still gets the error. Looking at the index
file which is ‘broken’ it seems no different to a good one. They are
both 82 bytes long.
There is only a single user accessing the system when the error occurs.
The website is not busy.
I am using blocks on the read/write of the file so my file IO channel is
being closed correctly between the writing of it, and subsequent reads.
And even if it’s not closed correctly, I figure that an hour and several
messages later it will have been closed.
My gut says it’s a buffer issue, or a problem with how I’m writing the
dump to the file … using puts in a subsequent write of the string
representation of the marshalled object rather than directly on the
.dump … but why does it work most of the time?
I’ve added some debugging which should shed light, but anyone have
thoughts on the matter?
Thanks,
Mike.