[ARROW-8379] [R] Investigate/fix thread safety issues (esp. Windows)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24563
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 08/Apr/20 23:36
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:59
• Resolved: 29/Sep/21 18:42

Description

There have been a number of issues where the R bindings' multithreading has been implicated in unstable behavior (ARROW-7844 for example). In ARROW-8375 I disabled use_threads in the Windows tests, and it appeared that the mysterious Windows segfaults stopped. We should fix whatever the underlying issues are.

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-10114 [R] Segfault in to_dataframe_parallel with deeply nested structs
• is related to: ARROW-11579 [R] read_feather hanging on Windows
• is related to: ARROW-12700 [R] Read/Write_feather stuck forever after bad write, R, Win32
• is related to: ARROW-10773 [R] parallel as.data.frame.Table hangs indefinitely on Windows
• is related to: ARROW-13293 [R] open_dataset followed by collect hangs (while compute works)
• is related to: ARROW-12216 [R] Proactively disable multithreading on RTools3.5 (32bit?)
• is related to: ARROW-12181 [C++][R] The "CSV dataset" in test-dataset.R is failing on RTools 3.5
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11269