| To: | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
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| Subject: | Re: glibc |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:14:19 +0200 |
| Cc: | Brian Murphy <brian.murphy@eicon.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <E15XNl1-0005C7-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:04:23PM +0100 |
| References: | <3B7B8951.B666A175@eicon.com> <E15XNl1-0005C7-00@the-village.bc.nu> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:04:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > We use 2.0.6 here because it is half the size of the newer glibcs and it > > seems to work fine for us. > > It trust someone patched the holes in it for things like DNS lookups ? The latest glibc 2.0.6 I was spreading only has MIPS-specific bug fixes. All the other big holes which are indeed big enough to drive a nice shipload of trucks through are unfixed. I haven't noticed that any other glibc 2.0 variant floating around has additional fixes. Nice for Cobalt boxen ... Ralf |
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