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1 | List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete) |
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| 1f205a47 | 4 | Time-stamp: <1997-05-12T02:39:19+0200 drepper> |
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| 6 | This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please | |
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7 | make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one |
| 8 | of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch. | |
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10 | Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the |
| 11 | GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface is available at | |
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| 13 | http://pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl | |
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| 15 | I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not | |
| 16 | reported before by looking though the database. To make the information | |
| 17 | in this data as useful as possible please report bugs always using the | |
| 18 | `glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. | |
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19 | |
| 20 | ||
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21 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 23 | Severity: [ *] to [***] | |
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25 | |
| 26 | [ **] For GNU libc on Linux, there is still no solution for the UTMP | |
| 27 | problem. | |
| 28 | [Among others: PR libc/39] | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | [ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads. | |
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| 1f205a47 | 32 | [ **] The `cbrtl' function for ix86 does not work in the moment. |
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33 | |
| 34 | [ **] Not really a bug, but it could lead to such: | |
| 35 | The RPC code is ugly ugly ugly. It's more or less verbatim taken | |
| 36 | from Sun's code and therefore mostly lacks complete prototypes and | |
| 37 | (more important) the use of `const'. It *definitely* needs to be | |
| 38 | cleaned. | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | [ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem | |
| 41 | to be the best. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | [ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS | |
| 44 | flag was given. | |
| 45 | [PR libc/72] | |
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46 | |
| 47 | [ *] On Linux, the <linux/posix_types.h> is not clean enough to satisfy | |
| 48 | the C++ namespace rules. Declaring `struct fd_set' also makes | |
| 49 | `fd_set' available in the global namespace which conflicts with | |
| 50 | the definition of `fd_set' in glibc. | |
| 51 | [PR libc/79] | |
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| 53 | [ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol | |
| 54 | NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it | |
| 55 | is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other | |
| 56 | symbols in <linux/limits.h> available. | |
| 57 | [PR libc/140] | |
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| 59 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 60 | Ulrich Drepper | |
| 61 | drepper@cygnus.com |