On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:39:56AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > unstable will be moving to 5.18 soonish, so this mainly concerns wheezy. > Assuming a clean enough patch, I expect we can push it into a stable > update. > > Unfortunately 6f48390ab209d16ee8f795f0a83677c8bd9ac69c isn't easily > backportable, there are conflicts due to earlier changes in the 5.15 > series. I haven't had the time to work through them yet. > > If you (or anybody else, of course) want to help, a clean backported > patch for 5.14 would be appreciated.
I happened upon an update on the upstream bug from Nicholas Clark which includes a potential (different) fix for 5.14: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/1241489/647243/ "I believe that the fix is to change threads::shared to deal with cleanup differently, so that the last magic struct which frees up the relevant mg_obj is responsible for cleaning up shared space. This means adding "free" magic to the element proxies: [...] patch supplied, which the same, or similar to http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/9b9aaeae0f62 In summary it looks like there might be a patch we can apply directly to 5.14, but a) I have not verified it applies and fixes the stated bug b) I am not yet sure it is suitable to apply. Maybe we could ask Nicholas for an opinion. Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
