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List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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1998-03-14 10:00:17 +00:00
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Time-stamp: <1998-03-14T09:23:56-0800 drepper>
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1997-03-21 21:25:26 +00:00
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This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
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1997-03-22 01:16:50 +00:00
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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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1997-03-21 21:25:26 +00:00
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1997-03-22 04:10:50 +00:00
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Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
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1997-08-05 23:36:21 +00:00
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GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
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1997-03-22 04:10:50 +00:00
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1997-12-24 21:04:27 +00:00
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http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
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1997-03-22 04:10:50 +00:00
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I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
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1997-08-05 23:36:21 +00:00
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reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
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in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
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1997-03-22 04:10:50 +00:00
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`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
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1997-03-21 21:25:26 +00:00
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Severity: [ *] to [***]
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[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
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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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1997-03-22 03:12:33 +00:00
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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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1997-11-19 22:48:41 +00:00
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[ *] When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
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directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
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checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
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category.
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[PR libc/207 and PR libc/454]
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1997-08-05 23:36:21 +00:00
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[ *] The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
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which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
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which are not defined in the charmap.
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[PR libc/229]
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1997-05-24 22:56:14 +00:00
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1997-11-19 22:48:41 +00:00
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[ *] _IO_getline can loop forever, at least with C++
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1998-03-14 10:00:17 +00:00
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[PR libc/332] The problem is fixed for glibc 2.1.
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1997-11-19 22:48:41 +00:00
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1997-08-05 23:36:21 +00:00
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[ *] The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
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not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
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1997-05-24 22:56:14 +00:00
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1997-12-10 00:00:16 +00:00
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[ **] When popen() was called with an illegal command the function still
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returns with a value not equal to NULL.
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1997-12-24 21:04:27 +00:00
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[ *] setlocale() leaks memory. This becomes only a problem if a program
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calls this function very often which normally is not the case. The
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problem is fixed for glibc 2.1.
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1997-12-28 18:24:23 +00:00
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[ *] Using the NSS modules from statically linked programs sometimes
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fails (for very large entries). The problem is fixed in glibc 2.1.
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1997-03-22 01:16:50 +00:00
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Ulrich Drepper
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drepper@cygnus.com
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