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Re: Problem with VMware 2.0.4 and glibc 2.2.5

* Thorsten Kukuk writes:
> Sometimes it is better for your reputation not to break it. And
> please tell me, how a user should recompile his binary only
> software?  With this, we will make only sure that no ISV will
> develop commercial software for Linux, because he never knows how
> often he has to ship new software.  At first he need to implement a
> workaround for a buggy glibc function and then we fix it in a way
> which breaks his application again. You will not make friends with
> this.
Use Free Software, and you have fixed the problem, or follow the
manual/standard. Which clearly states what nice() should return.
And I do not see what commercial software has to do with this, you
probably mean propietery software. 

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt
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