Bug#723805: perl: Seg faults sometimes (presumably due to "use threads;")

2013-09-20 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > hugmeir from #p5p suggested the following: > use threads; > scalar glob("*"); > threads->create(sub { glob("*") })->join(); Yeah, that's clearly it. I can even get that to trigger the same assertion failure with debugperl: % debug

Bug#723805: perl: Seg faults sometimes (presumably due to "use threads;")

2013-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-20 12:00, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > > hugmeir from #p5p suggested the following: > > """ > use threads; > scalar glob("*"); > threads->create(sub { glob("*") })->join(); > """ > > While the snippet above itself does not crash, it spews out warnings like: > > """ > Unbalanced str

Bug#723805: perl: Seg faults sometimes (presumably due to "use threads;")

2013-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-20 10:38, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:09:39AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Package: perl >> Version: 5.18.1-3 >> Severity: normal > >> I am experiencing a regular segmentation faul in perl when running the >> Lintian test suite. It appears to be our test runner tha

Bug#723805: perl: Seg faults sometimes (presumably due to "use threads;")

2013-09-20 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:09:39AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.18.1-3 > Severity: normal > I am experiencing a regular segmentation faul in perl when running the > Lintian test suite. It appears to be our test runner that seg. faults > and does so only at the "end".

Bug#723805: perl: Seg faults sometimes (presumably due to "use threads;")

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: perl Version: 5.18.1-3 Severity: normal Hi, I am experiencing a regular segmentation faul in perl when running the Lintian test suite. It appears to be our test runner that seg. faults and does so only at the "end". The test runner uses "threads", which is probably why it is the only s