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>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes: Uli> "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes: >> I agree that this is completely broken too, broken in the fact that so >> many applications will now break, so at the very least increment the >> version number of these symbols for backwards compatability sake if >> silly nonsense changes like this are going to be made. Uli> Only broken applications will break. On the other hand, applications Uli> which work correctly on other platforms wouldn't work. In that case glibc is a broken "application". Check the usage of the different get{hst,pwnam,...}_r functions in (I just did a quick grep, I'm sure I've missed some): - sysdeps/generic/glob.c - inet/rcmd.c - inet/rexec.c - pwd/getpw.c - the sunrpc code (clnt_gen.c, clnt_simp.c, getrpcport.c) - sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c Sorry, no patches this time. Even if this change confirms to POSIX which shouldn't make this change in a minor release. I ask to revert the patches from the glibc 2.1 branch and document this bug fix in glibc 2.2 prominently, at least in the NEWS section. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de
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