Bug#844134: Request for help - scilab segfaults with TSX

[Ian Jackson]

Control: severity 844134 normal

Samuel Thibault writes ("Re: Request for help - scilab segfaults with TSX"):
> Gilles Filippini, on Wed 04 Jan 2017 19:31:28 +0100, wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 02:23:24 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > This looks like a threading bug in Scilab exposed by TSX.
> > 
> > I've just noticed this RC bug [1] against scilab.
> 
> FYI, glibc is about to just disable TSX entirely in version 2.24-9,
> which will just get rid of the issue for Stretch.

Oh, hooray!  I have just filed a bug requesting just that.

That means #844134 isn't an FTBFS in scilab any more either.

Ian.

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