From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:01:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.
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Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8b31ca19ea7b..c16a59aa7175 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Linux:  On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run
 	to fail as well, so their removal is a good idea regardless of
 	how you configure python.
 
+	More recently, a problem with threads and fork() was tracked
+	down to a bug in the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5;
+	glibc version 2.0.7 solves the problem.  This causes the
+	popen2 test to fail; problem and solution reported by Pablo
+	Bleyer.
+
 	Also under RedHat Linux 5.0, the crypt module now needs the
 	-lcrypt option.  Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or
 	comment out the crypt module in the same file.