Ulrich,
Has the libc-base patch HJ Lu proposed been rejected? This is
the patch posted in...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00126.html
..which fixes the problem in the associated test case...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-05/msg00143.html
These two patches work fine here against current glibc cvs.
Jack