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Re: [PATCH] nptl: Remove vfork IFUNC-based forwarder from libpthread [BZ #20188]
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:42 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> > All right, then I'm going to say that this patch is OK provided you
> > explain in the commit message that dropping the GLIBC_2.1.2 symbol
> > will make old binaries fail to load. That seems like the most
> > important reason.
>
> Oh. I honestly didn't realize that it wasn't obvious. Thanks for the
> feedback. Our users get this error (“/path/to/program:
> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
> /path/to/program)”) all the time when they try to run current binaries
> on glibc 2.12 or glibc 2.17.
Yeah, that's not an error I can remember seeing myself :shrug:
zw