From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 21:04:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update. X-Git-Tag: cvs/glibc-2_0_6pre6~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0497df82f58e4bb777ccbd3a9bf9a81294f51414;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git Update. --- diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index d5dc52b7d9e..9894c1ce08a 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete) ---------------------------------------------- -Time-stamp: <1997-11-22T02:35:55+0100 drepper> +Time-stamp: <1997/12/24 21:37:17 drepper> This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch. Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at - http://www-gnats.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl + http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not reported before by looking through the database. To make the information @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***] [ **] When popen() was called with an illegal command the function still returns with a value not equal to NULL. +[ *] setlocale() leaks memory. This becomes only a problem if a program + calls this function very often which normally is not the case. The + problem is fixed for glibc 2.1. + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index d8d2bcd7475..899e5fee482 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ please let me know. --drepper@cygnus.com -~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1. Compiling glibc @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ please let me know. Nothing seems to work. -~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1. Compiling glibc @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ few people have expressed interest. If you have a system not listed above (or in the `README' file) and you are really interested in porting it, contact - + 1.2. What compiler do I need to build GNU libc? @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ The compilation of these extra libraries and the compiler optimizations slow down the build process and need more disk space. -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Installation and configuration issues @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ happened. So in case of doubt report such a warning message as a problem. -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them @@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ and return EINTR (for example, to implement a timeout) you can do this with siginterrupt(). -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Miscellaneous @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ snapshot, according to Philip Blundell , the required kernel version is at least 2.1.30. -~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Answers were given by: {UD} Ulrich Drepper, diff --git a/README.template b/README.template index 682d322420b..a18b9d15a26 100644 --- a/README.template +++ b/README.template @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations, these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending -electronic mail to . +electronic mail to . The GNU C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what facilities you want it to make available. We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which -is install together with the rest of the GNU libc to . +is install together with the rest of the GNU libc to . Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless -you can still send bug reports to as normal +you can still send bug reports to as normal electronic mails. The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying