>>> >>> This won't happen any time soon, right? >>> I'd like to ask glibc for many other things, not just this, but the >>> latency >>> of the glibc changes propagating to users is too low, so we don't >>> bother (although we should) >>> E.g. we've been hit by the ugly >>> pthread_getattr_np/pthread_attr_getstack multiple times. >>> :( >> >> >> If you never ask for it, it will never be done, it is that simple. > > glibc pushes out a release every six months which then gets put into the > next Fedora release which usually follows a few months later. We're talking > about a worst case lag time of roughly 9 months, often much less. It's > probably similar for the SuSE community releases. > > I think everyone who has had a bad experience working with glibc's team in > the past should try to put it behind them. The new team running glibc is > much more reasonable to work with -- the biggest problem now is rebooting > the project after years of mis-management. The progress they've made > towards that over the last year has been tremendous. >
Submitted a feature request against glibc https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16291 Please comment there if you think I did not provide enough information. --kcc
