Segmentation Fault - Clear all

[Rakesh Pandit]

On 16-Feb-2009, John W. Eaton wrote:
>On 13-Feb-2009, Michael Goffioul wrote:

>| On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
>| > On 13-Feb-2009, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>| >
>| > | This has already been asked probably at least 10 times...
>| > |
>| > | This is a known problem. During installation, do not select packages
>| > | ftp, ann and database.
>| >
>| > Is this strictly a bug in the packages, or is there something that we
>| > can do to fix the problem in Octave?
>|
>| The problem is to have user-defined C++ types in oct-files.
>| When you clear the oct-file and there are still objects of that
>| type created, you can make octave crash. The oct-file should
>| lock itself to avoid the problem. Alternatively, Octave could
>| provide a mechanism to prevent clearing an oct-file while
>| variables from a dynamically-loaded class still exist, like it is
>| done for functions in oct-files.
>|
>| I remember making a proposal for something like a base class
>| usable in oct-file (like octave_dld_base_value) that could
>| implement such mechanism.
>
>OK, I don't think I had time to look at this in detail the last time
>it came up.  I'd be happy to reconsider now it if someone can point me
>to the previous proposal and discussion.
>

Is this being fixed? Or is it planned to be fixed upstream ? Just was
concerned on part of fedora users.

Thanks!

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Regards,
Rakesh Pandit
Fedora Package Maintainer