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List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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1997-03-23 01:54:07 +00:00
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Time-stamp: <1997-03-22T04:31:41+0100 drepper>
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This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
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make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
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of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
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Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
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GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface is available at
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http://pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
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I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
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reported before by looking though the database. To make the information
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in this data as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
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`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Severity: [ *] to [***]
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[ **] For GNU libc on Linux, there is still no solution for the UTMP
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problem.
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[Among others: PR libc/39]
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[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
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[ **] The `cbrtl' function is inaccurate. The algorithm used for `double'
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and `float' is not usable for `long double'.
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[ **] Not really a bug, but it could lead to such:
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The RPC code is ugly ugly ugly. It's more or less verbatim taken
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from Sun's code and therefore mostly lacks complete prototypes and
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(more important) the use of `const'. It *definitely* needs to be
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cleaned.
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[ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
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to be the best.
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[ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
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flag was given.
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[PR libc/72]
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[ *] On Linux, the <linux/posix_types.h> is not clean enough to satisfy
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the C++ namespace rules. Declaring `struct fd_set' also makes
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`fd_set' available in the global namespace which conflicts with
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the definition of `fd_set' in glibc.
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[PR libc/79]
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[ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
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NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
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is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
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symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
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[PR libc/140]
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Ulrich Drepper
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drepper@cygnus.com
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