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Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc-2.10.1-pb1 released


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:22:55PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:21:53PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 	* Major breakage in nscd locking
> > 	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10402
> 
> This is now upstream.

Great!

It would be nice if the free() race fix could make it upstream too...

> IMHO glibc-2.10.2 should also contain:
> 
> 137028b4d7e50f71906c1656c27079eac5a1d085	Fix lock handling in memory hander of nscd.
> 6cbbaa50aac809ad6e0692247876c82d58e466bf	Fix possible race when freeing object in fast bin list.
> bec466d922ee22b94ac0d00415fb605e136efe6e	Fix race in corruption check.
> 
> maybe also:
> 50158f95525ca59459a90f2a7bc65ceb892a0807	Use correct release semantic in list update.
> bea0ac1d8703091294fe5822d982591c849b5458	Use rel semantics of cas instead of acq semantics with...

I have merged all these and some others to my glibc-2.10 branch in the
meantime; I intentionally tagged an older snapshot of my glibc-2.10
branch as the release since that was what got real-world testing in
OpenSUSE factory. I personally prefer glibc with fewer fixes but
actually tested than glibc with more fixes but little testing. I'm open
to discussion, though.


I have opted not to include this one since stable series not what is
used as a base for further development:

> ab09b221594f12d90a63d29cbf5488d91f39d3f3	Sun agreed to a change of the license for the RPC code...

But it's just a formal change so if people want it there, I won't resist
it.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer


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