Re: glibc-2.0.95 causes ls -al & ps -aux to segfault.

[hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de> writes:
> 
> > To keep the old libnss_*.so.1 modules back doesn't really fix
> > the problem. For libnss_*.so.2, there are also some changes in
> > internal libc functions, which have no new version symbol, and
> > are not binary compatible. I have make 2 add ons, one for
> > libdb 1.85, and one with the libnss_*.so.1 modules with the 
> > old nss version 1 interface.
> 
> Keeping the old nss modules is only necessary if you explicitly link
> with them.  Who or what did this?  It should never happen.
> 

That is not true. Under glibc, even the static binaries may use
the shared nss modules. Personally, I think it is bad since a static
binary may not be truly static.


H.J.