In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
>Thanks for the response and for submitting the patch...
>
>The sad thing is it looks like even Windows 98 handles this properly
>when RedHat doesn't. Kind of embarassing really.
Unfortunately, it's a fundamental problem with the Linux development style.
People tend to develop what they're interested in, not what's needed by the
people who use it for real work. As more and more companies jump onto the
Linux bandwagon, hopefully, some of the less sexy stuff that "needs to work"
will get done. This is already happening, but needs to happen more.
As for RedHat in particular, I was troubled by the fact that "we need this to
work and here's the RFC that says it ought to work" wasn't very important
to the developer(s) I communicated with.
Fortunately my experience with the glibc people was better. It took more
work than it ought to, but I did get the problem fixed in the code base,
and soon (next release, probably 2.1.4) that fix will be out there.
Regards,
John
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