Segmentation Fault - Clear all

[Rakesh Pandit]

2009/3/6 Rakesh Pandit wrote:
> 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.
>

I would have appreciated a reply here:

I have a bug against fedora package.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448467


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Regards,
Rakesh Pandit
Fedora Package Maintainer