[perl #46415] Segmentation fault when using encoding ':locale' and creating a new thread

On Fri Jun 21 13:36:16 2013, khw wrote:
> On Sun Oct 14 09:17:55 2007, jdhedden@cpan.org wrote:
> > Florent Bayle wrote:
> > > The following code segfault on my system
> > > perl -Mthreads -e "use encoding ':locale'; threads->create(sub {});"
> > 
> > Bo Lindbergh wrote:
> > > Yet another symptom of PerlIO::encoding not being thread safe.
> > > See <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=31923> for
> > > the full story.
> > 
> > Gee, shouldn't this be documented in the POD.  Patch attached.
> 
> I just ran this on blead, and got a segfault.  Is there a reason not to
> apply his warning patch, or a variant thereof?


-- 
Karl Williamson

For the record, it turns out that there is a reason not to apply the patch:  it has already been applied

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• [perl #46415] Segmentation fault when using encoding ':locale' and creating a new thread by Karl Williamson via RT