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Re: 32bit UID support for glibc 2.1.3
- To: Chris Wing <wingc at engin dot umich dot edu>
- Subject: Re: 32bit UID support for glibc 2.1.3
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 12 Jan 2000 22:45:59 +0100
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>, libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001121622330.27792-100000@shaft.engin.umich.edu>
>>>>> Chris Wing writes:
Chris> Ulrich:
>> I want to have a 2.2 patch first. Currently I'm not wiling to apply
>> the patch to 2.1 and certainly not to 2.1.3. There was not enough
>> testing, especially compatibility. Woul you bet that nothing was
>> overlooked?
Chris> That sounds perfectly reasonable. My main goal is to have 32-bit UIDs
Chris> stable and "working out of the box" for the future Linux distributions
Chris> based on Linux 2.4.
Chris> Out of curiosity, what new features can we look forward to in glibc 2.2,
Chris> and in what timeframe do you expect it will be released?
So far the following entries are noted in NEWS:
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Version 2.2
* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.2-5 which supports
threads. No changes should be necessary for user programs. The
integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley.
* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
(conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
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Directly I don't know what else should be mentioned besides a
reimplementation of localedef, ISO C99 compatibility, the usual number
of bug fixes and documentation updates, and a software floating point
emulation.
I don't know about a definite timeframe, Uli?
Andreas
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