On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> Take a look at the information on serialization in 'R Internals'. AFAICS > this is no different from what can happen when loading a saved workspace. > > I'll give that a look, thanks. > > On 06/12/2011 05:29, Tyler Pirtle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> While debugging a network server I'm developing I noticed something >> unusual >> - call to unserialize() resulted in >> an error about loading a namespace. >> >> I was a bit taken back by this - why should unserializing an object cause >> a >> namespace lookup? >> Are there any other side-effects of unserialize() that I should be >> cautious >> about? I've been >> digging through the R_Unserialize() call, I haven't found the >> loadNamespace >> bit yet but I >> assume its in there somewhere. >> >> Is there anyway to guard against R eagerly evaluating serialized data >> (serialize()) being unserialized (unserialize()) ? >> > > Don't unserialize 'eagerly'. Hint: that's what lazy-loading does. > > I don't follow you. Could you elaborate? Thanks, T > >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Tyler >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> >> > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
