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@@ -1,20 +1,27 @@ List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete) ---------------------------------------------- -Time-stamp: <1997-03-20T02:33:37+0100 drepper> +Time-stamp: <1997-03-22T04:31:41+0100 drepper> This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please -make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. I you can fix one -of these bugs I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch. +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. -Severity: [ *] to [***] +Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the +GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface is available at + + http://pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl + +I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not +reported before by looking though the database. To make the information +in this data as useful as possible please report bugs always using the +`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. -[***] Profiling currently does not work with programs using NSS. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Severity: [ *] to [***] -[***] At least on Linux/Alpha, there seem to be problems with dynamically - loading NSS modules in certain situations. - [PR libc/137] [ **] For GNU libc on Linux, there is still no solution for the UTMP problem. @@ -23,7 +30,7 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***] [ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads. [ **] The `cbrtl' function is inaccurate. The algorithm used for `double' - and `float' is not usable. + and `float' is not usable for `long double'. [ **] Not really a bug, but it could lead to such: The RPC code is ugly ugly ugly. It's more or less verbatim taken @@ -37,3 +44,19 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***] [ *] 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] + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Ulrich Drepper +drepper@cygnus.com |