BUGS

   1             List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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   3
   4 Time-stamp: <1997-11-02T15:10:48+0100 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.org: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 libm-ieee `log2' function seems to be very inaccurate.
  29
  30 [  *]  The libm-ieee `remquo' function rounds 3.0/2.0 incorrectly.
  31
  32 [  *]  The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
  33        to be the best.
  34
  35 [  *]  The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
  36        flag was given.
  37        [PR libc/72]
  38
  39 [  *]  On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
  40        NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file.  In glibc it
  41        is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
  42        symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
  43        [PR libc/140]
  44
  45 [  *]  The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
  46        which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
  47        which are not defined in the charmap.
  48        [PR libc/229]
  49
  50 [  *]  The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
  51        not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
  52
  53 [  *]  The first alias definition in locale.alias is ignored.
  54        [PR libc/205]
  55
  56 [  *]  When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
  57        directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
  58        checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
  59        category.
  60        [PR libc/207]
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  62 Ulrich Drepper
  63 drepper@cygnus.com