On 06/28/2013 09:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I may even agree, but the fact remains that until you fix it in glibc, > you have not fixed it. As long as glibc doesn't change, there's no > point in changing everything else.
Unfortunately, one reason to change glibc is: "Ouch! all these GNU applications have awful workarounds for glibc's undesirable behavior." So I'm afraid there is a point to changing modules outside glibc: it strengthens the argument for changing glibc.