[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#490588: [OctDev] Bug#490588: octave-ftp: octave segfaults on clear all command

Michael Goffioul michael.goffioul at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 17:14:23 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:
> This means that we should reassign the bug report from octave-ftp to the
> swig package.  Do you agree?  If yes, could you make a short suggestion on
> what should be changed in SWIG to fix the bug?  I will then forward this to
> the swig maintainer.

The thread I referred already explains what the problem is. In summary,
an oct-file that defines a new octave object class (octave_base_value
inherited) should also make sure not to be unloaded before all objects
of that class have been deleted. It should somehow lock itself to avoid
unloading.

Michael.





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