Colin Patrick McCabe created HADOOP-8756:
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Summary: libsnappy loader issues
Key: HADOOP-8756
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8756
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Components: native
Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
Priority: Minor
* We use {{System.loadLibrary("snappy")}} from the Java side. However in
libhadoop, we use {{dlopen}} to open libsnappy.so dynamically. It seems like
the System.loadLibrary nonsense is completely redundant-- we would only need
this if we planned on accessing libsnappy methods directly from Java (via the
'native' keyword)- - which we don't, and can't, since snappy is not JNI. At
the end of the day, snappy is only accessible through libhadoop.so, so I think
snappy-related issues should be handled there.
* We should log the search path(s) we use for {{libsnappy.so}}, so that it's
easier to diagnose configuration issues.
* It seems like the static initialization code in the LoadSnappy.java class
references the static initialization code in NativeCodeLoader. Basically, if
the init method in NativeCodeLoader doesn't run before the init method in
LoadSnappy, there could be problems. We should avoid having this kind of issue.
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