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Re: Pre-release review of glibc 2.17: 0 P1 bugs, 14 P2 bugs, 0 P3 bugs.

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>,carlos at systemhalted dot org,fweimer at redhat dot com,roland at hack dot frob dot com,hjl dot tools at gmail dot com,law at redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:17:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Pre-release review of glibc 2.17: 0 P1 bugs, 14 P2 bugs, 0 P3 bugs.
References: <CAE2sS1jurTyTF8XwmKLLQWTo60c+w7FbJyZ=4nT+DUN111XD1A@mail.gmail.com> <20121129.115006.1040521441058813625.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thursday 29 November 2012 11:50:06 David Miller wrote:
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
> > "fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams"
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12724
> > - No patch exists, and too risky.
> 
> Agreed.  It's troubling to see that a major system component like Ruby
> seems to be running into problems because of this.

various distros (at least Arch, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE) have been carrying this 
revert patch since glibc-2.14:
http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.16.0/0068_all_glibc-2.16-
glibc-revert-fseek-on-fclose.patch

*looks* fairly low risk
-mike

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