glibc/BUGS
Ulrich Drepper af6f39063b Update.
1997-10-26 18:12  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* libio/genops.c: Partial undo of last patch.
	* libio/stdfiles.c: Likewise.
	* libio/iofdopen.c: Use _IO_FILE_complete, not _IO_file_plus.
	* libio/iopopen.c: Likewise.
	* libio/iovdprintf.c: Likewise.
	* libio/libio.h: Remove duplicated `;'.
	* libio/stdio.c: Remove misleading comment.
	* libio/stdio.h: Declare standard streams as variables.

	* login/Makefile (distribute): Add README.utmpd.
	* login/README.utmpd: New file.
	Provided by Mark M. Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.

	* manual/job.texi: Document tcgetsid.
	* manual/pattern.texi: Document globfree.
	* manual/terminal.texi: Document B38400 ... B460800.

	* posix/confstr.c: Print "-D_FILE_OFFSET_SIZE=64" for _CS_LFS_CFLAGS.

	* posix/unistd.h: Add explanation of _POSIX_* constants.

	* posix/unists.h: Add prototypes for __pread, __pread64, __pwrite
	and __pwrite64.
	* sysdeps/generic/pread.c: Define as __pread and make pread weak alias.
	* sysdeps/generic/pread64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/pwrite.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/pwrite64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/posix/pread.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/posix/pwrite.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/posix/pread64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/posix/pwrite64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$(subdir)=posix] (sysdep_routines):
	Add s_pread64 and s_pwrite64.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s_pread64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s_pwrite64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Add pread and pwrite.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/pread64.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/pwrite64.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/pread64.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/pwrite64.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add pread and pwrite
	with weak aliases for *64 functions.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.

	* string/bits/string2.h: Add casts to allow void * arguments.

	* sysdeps/i386/i486/bits/string.h: Define index and rindex only if
	__USE_BSD or __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h: Add SCM_RIGHTS and other
	SCM_* constants from kernel header.

	* termios/termios.h: Add prototype for tcgetsid.

1997-10-26 13:26  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>

	* sunrpc/clnt_perr.c: Add trailing '\0' to strings.

	* sunrpc/get_myaddr.c: Include rpc/clnt.h for prototypes.

	* sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c: Use get_myaddress from header file.

1997-10-26 05:26  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* configure.in: Punt if any directory mentioned in the
	enable-add-on parameter does not exist.

1997-10-25 19:25  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* termios/Makefile (routines): Add tcgetsid.
	* termios/tcgetsid.c: New file.
	Provided by Mark M. Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.

1997-10-25 18:56  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* stdlib/stdlib.h: Remove mblen optimization.
	* stdlib/mblen.c: Rewrite to make sure global state is not changed.
	Reported by anderson@metrolink.com.

1997-10-19 21:51  Wolfram Gloger  <wg@wolfram.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>

	* malloc/thread-m.h [_LIBC]:  Use new __libc_internal_tsd_{set,get}
	interface for thread-specific data.

1997-10-25 06:51  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* elf/dl-addr.c: Use braces for correct logical grouping.
	Patch by Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>.

1997-10-18 09:15  Geoff Keating  <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>

	* io/ftwtest-sh: Sometimes /tmp is a symlink to somewhere more
	convenient; that caused this test to break.

	* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-machine.h: Fix typo.

	* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenv.h: Don't use floating-point registers
	when -msoft-float is in effect, because this causes compilation to
	stop.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/mathinlines.h: Likewise.

	* rpm/template: Add description, use RPM flags rather than the ones
	used to build the spec.  Build in a temporary directory, not /.

	* elf/dl-lookup.c: Don't include _itoa.h, it's not used.
	* elf/dl-minimal.c: Use _itoa_word rather than _itoa.  It seems that
	_itoa is the only routine that ld.so uses that requires something
	from libgcc.a on powerpc, so it would be best to avoid it in ld.so.
	* elf/rtld.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/generic/_strerror.c: Likewise.
	* stdio-common/_itoa.c: Split out digits strings.
	* stdio-common/itoa-digits.c: New file.
	* stdio-common/Makefile: Add itoa-digits.

1997-10-21  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/filesys.texi (Scanning Directory Content): Document error
	case more.

	* dirent/scandir.c (scandir): Ignore errors from select function.
	Suggested by urbanw@cs.umu.se (closes PR libc/316).

1997-10-25 06:18  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/socket.S: Corrections.
	Patch by Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>.

1997-10-25 04:00  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.c (_dl_load_cache_lookup): Favour exact
	matching of version function if both the general (1) and
	glibc-specific (3) entry are present.

1997-10-22 18:47  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>

	* sunrpc/rpc/clnt.h: Add get_myaddress prototype.

	* nis/libnsl.map: Fix typo.

	* nis/nis_call.c: Fix memory leak.

1997-10-22 19:29  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/generic/memcmp.c: Define __P if not defined before.
	Patch by Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>.

1997-10-21 22:09  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/prctl.h: New file by Richard Gooch
	<rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>.

1997-10-21 21:50  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* misc/syslog.c (vsyslog): Open console with O_NOCTTY.
	Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.

1997-10-21 18:07  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* posix/wordexp.c: Improve handling of $... expressions.
	Patch by Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>.

1997-10-21 16:12  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* manual/string.texi: Correct return values of bcopy and bzero.
	Patch by Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>.

1997-10-18 15:03  Philip Blundell  <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h: Correct types of some
	elements in struct msghdr and struct cmsghdr, to keep in step with
	the kernel.

1997-10-17 22:29  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/init-first.h: Fix another
	bug in startup code.
	Patch by Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>.

1997-10-16 20:17  Richard Henderson  <rth@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/socket.S: Dump args to the
	stack and give the kernel a pointer.  Use the sysdep.h macros.

1997-10-17 04:07  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/elf/start.S: Calculate argv correctly.
	Patch by Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>.

1997-10-16  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nextafterxf.c [!__STDC__]: Correct typo.

1997-10-16 14:50  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* manual/pattern.texi: Document globfree.

1997-10-15 21:11  Philip Blundell  <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_packet.h: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_headers): Add
	net/if_packet.h.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_arp.h (ARPHRD_ASH): New type, for
	64Mbps ASH.
	(ARPHRD_ETHER): This is used for 100Mbps networks too.

1997-10-15  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* Makerules (install): Use full pathnames for linker script.
	This is to work around a limitation in `ld' while no better solution
	is possible.

1997-10-15  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* malloc/malloc.c (mmap_chunk): Put inline before static in
	function definition to avoid compiler warning.
	(malloc_extend): Likewise.

	* sysdeps/generic/des_impl.c: Include "des.h" to avoid warning.

1997-10-15  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* NEWS: Fix @gnu.ai.mit.edu -> @gnu.org.
	* README.template: Likewise.
	* db/makedb.c: Likewise.
	* elf/ldd.bash.in: Likewise.
	* elf/ldd.sh.in: Likewise.
	* intl/locale.alias: Likewise.
	* login/programs/utmpd.c: Likewise.
	* libio/stdfiles.c [!_IO_MTSAFE] (DEF_STDFILE): Fix parameter list.

1997-10-14  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Rules: Remove all empty.* files.
	(shared-only-routines): Correct implementation.

1997-10-14  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_lrintl.c: Make compilable.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_llrintl.c: Likewise.  Optimized.

1997-10-14  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* elf/ldd.bash.in: Only prepend ./ if the file contains no slash
	at all.
	* elf/ldd.sh.in: Likewise.

1997-10-14  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/m68k/sys/ucontext.h: New file.

1997-10-13  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbln.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalblnf.c: New (empty) file.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalblnl.c: New (empty) file.

	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbn.c: Add scalbln alias.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbnf.c: Adapted.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbnl.c: Adapted.

	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrint.c: Add standard skeleton stuff.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrintf.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrintl.c: New file.

	* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/bits/mathinline.h: Add fma and scalbln.  Update
	lrint and scalbn.
	(__m81_inline) [__cplusplus]: Define to __inline.

	* math/bits/mathcalls.h: Remove whitespace before second argument
	of __MATHDECL.  Add note explaining this.

1997-10-13  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* manual/arith.texi (Absolute Value): Spelling fix.

1997-10-13  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* malloc/obstack.h (obstack_empty_p) [!__GNUC__]: Properly
	parenthesize the macro parameter.

	* Rules: Remove rules to magically install <subdir>.h headers.
1997-10-26 20:13:00 +00:00

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List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
----------------------------------------------
Time-stamp: <1997-10-25T06:32:15+0200 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
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.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
in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Severity: [ *] to [***]
[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
[ **] The libm-ieee `log2' function seems to be very inaccurate.
[ *] The libm-ieee `remquo' function rounds 3.0/2.0 incorrectly.
[ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
to be the best.
[ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
flag was given.
[PR libc/72]
[ *] On Linux, the <linux/posix_types.h> is not clean enough to satisfy
the C++ namespace rules. Declaring `struct fd_set' also makes
`fd_set' available in the global namespace which conflicts with
the definition of `fd_set' in glibc.
[PR libc/79]
[ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
[PR libc/140]
[ *] The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
which are not defined in the charmap.
[PR libc/229]
[ *] The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
[ *] The first alias definition in locale.alias is ignored.
[PR libc/205]
[ *] When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
category.
[PR libc/207]
[ *] configuring with CFLAGS="-pipe" configure doesn't work
with gcc. This seems to be a bug in gcc 2.7.2.x (egcs doesn't
have this bug).
[PR libc/245]
[ *] gethostbyname returns HOST_NOT_FOUND if the nameserver is
unreachable and nsswitch.conf contains a line with:
hosts: files dns
If the only method is dns gethostbyname return
TRY_AGAIN. gethostbyname should return in both cases TRY_AGAIN.
[PR libc/244]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com