Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Jackson writes ("libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?"):
> I have just been debugging a ghostscript segfault on jessie amd64.
...
> I recently encountered what seems to be a similar bug in ogg123 in
> stable.  #842796.
> 
> Has something changed in jessie's libc recently ?  I find it difficult
> to imagine that these bugs would have been missed earlier during the
> life of jessie.
> 
> I will try to make a patch to fix ghostscript, or at least file a
> proper bug.  But, if there was a libc change, would it be possible to
> revert it or make some kind of workaround ?

FYI, the ghostscript bug, with patch for jessie, is #843324.
sid's ghostscript is fine and I think stretch's is too.

Ian.

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