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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-05-23 12:48:01 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-05-23 12:48:01 +0000
commit40e45bd5d696c63e6227214179e7e601b60c93e3 (patch)
tree5d9f7dac4e8d94ba15a9e47372aa5a4a7c36b66f /INSTALL
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downloadglibc-40e45bd5d696c63e6227214179e7e601b60c93e3.tar.gz
Do not mention old Linux kernel versions in installation documentation.
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@@ -244,9 +244,9 @@ well.
permissions on a pseudoterminal so it can be used by the calling
process. This means programs like `xterm' and `screen' do not have to
be setuid to get a pty. (There may be other reasons why they need
-privileges.) If you are using a 2.1 or newer Linux kernel with the
-`devptsfs' or `devfs' filesystems providing pty slaves, you don't need
-this program; otherwise you do. The source for `pt_chown' is in
+privileges.) If you are using a Linux kernel with the `devptsfs' or
+`devfs' filesystems providing pty slaves, you don't need this program;
+otherwise you do. The source for `pt_chown' is in
`login/programs/pt_chown.c'.
After installation you might want to configure the timezone and
@@ -377,11 +377,6 @@ C Library with `--prefix=/usr'. If you set some other prefix or allow
it to default to `/usr/local', then all the components are installed
there.
- You cannot use `nscd' with 2.0 kernels, due to bugs in the
-kernel-side thread support. `nscd' happens to hit these bugs
-particularly hard, but you might have problems with any threaded
-program.
-
Reporting Bugs
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