[ARROW-1136] [C++/Python] Segfault on empty stream

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: C++, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16768
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Diego Torres Quintanilla
• Created: 21/Jun/17 21:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:12
• Resolved: 23/Jun/17 18:26

Description

To reproduce:

$ ipython
iPython 3.5.3 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Mar  6 2017, 11:58:13) 
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 6.1.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
In [1]: import pyarrow as pa
In [2]: import io
In [3]: stream = io.BytesIO(b'')
In [4]: pa.StreamReader(stream)
[1]    30364 segmentation fault  ipython