On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:46:32PM +0100, Nix wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields told this: > > Also I suppose we should check which version of nfs-utils that fix is in > > and make sure distributions are getting the fixed nfs-utils before they > > get the new libc, or we're going to see this bug a lot.... > > Further info. This behaviour, although it is allowed by POSIX, is not > *specified*, as such, by it (ah! ambiguity! life would be so dull > without you!), and is not replicated by any other C library on the face > of the planet. > > Further, it's not even the behaviour of glibc, as such. > > It's the behaviour of glibc 2.6.x as patched with this Debian-specific > patch:
Good grief. Well, I'd still count it as a bug in nfs-utils, then, but nfs-util's share of the blame is much less than we'd previously thought.... > This patch also breaks at least bash and zsh as well as nfs-utils (see > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429021>) and I sort of > suspect it's not long for this world as a result. > > So this is much less nasty than we feared (well, and more nasty if you > happen to be a Debian unstable or testing user). OK! Sounds like good news. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
