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Re: [PATCHES] glibc 2.1, Linux, and chown

At 21:50 -0800 1998-12-12, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>This is really the worst thing you can do.  It creates incompatible
>libcs.  If something gets rejected there is a good reason.

Please note that these patches aren't the same as the rejected ones 
(not that that's any excuse).

I do think now that maybe fixing dpkg might be a better solution, 
since nothing else really seems to break.

The question in my mind now is why powerpc needs to handle this in libc.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                     <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
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