BUGS

   1             List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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   3
   4 Time-stamp: <1997-08-04T00:50:04+0200 drepper>
   5
   6 This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of.  Please
   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.
   9
  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 available at
  12
  13         http://www-gnats.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
  14
  15 I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
  16 reported before by looking through the database.  To make the information
  17 in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
  18 `glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
  19
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  22
  23 Severity: [  *] to [***]
  24
  25
  26 [ **]  There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
  27
  28 [  *]  The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
  29        to be the best.
  30
  31 [  *]  The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
  32        flag was given.
  33        [PR libc/72]
  34
  35 [  *]  On Linux, the <linux/posix_types.h> is not clean enough to satisfy
  36        the C++ namespace rules.  Declaring `struct fd_set' also makes
  37        `fd_set' available in the global namespace which conflicts with
  38        the definition of `fd_set' in glibc.
  39        [PR libc/79]
  40
  41 [  *]  On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
  42        NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file.  In glibc it
  43        is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
  44        symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
  45        [PR libc/140]
  46
  47 [  *]  The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
  48        which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
  49        which are not defined in the charmap.
  50        [PR libc/229]
  51
  52 [  *]  The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
  53        not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
  54
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  56 Ulrich Drepper
  57 drepper@cygnus.com