Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:37:52 +0000 | From | "Chris Funderburg (at home)" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 changeset 1.952.4.2 corrupt in fs/jfs/inode.c |
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On 2/5/2003 11:31 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: >>(BTW, Larry, the bk binaries segfault on my (glibc 2.3.1) i686 system. Any >>chance we could see binaries linked against 2.3.x? There's NSS badness between >>2.2 and 2.3 that causes even static binaries to segfault ... ) > > > Yes, NSS in glibc is the world's worst garbage. Glibc segfaults if there > is no /etc/nsswitch.conf. Nice. > > We can go buy another machine for glibc2.3, I just need to know what redhat > release uses that. If there isn't one, what distro uses that?
Matt,
I _think_ the RedHat glibc2.3 has the NSS patch to avoid this problem. If you're into rolling your own you can find some info here:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/chapter06/glibc.html
I wanted to to run the newest version of glibc on my LFS machine, and had to start from scratch (again) because of this.
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