glibc-2.11.1 released
Petr Baudis
pasky@suse.cz
Tue Dec 29 16:41:00 GMT 2009
Hello!
Apologies for the late announcement long after the tag has been created,
I have been stuck on obtaining the necessary upload permissions first
and then I was not available over the holidays. The homepage will
hopefully be updated shortly. Anyway:
This is a bugfix glibc release, revising the glibc-2.11 release only
by bugfixes backported from the master glibc development branch.
The following known significant bugs exist in this release:
* Empty /etc/resolv.conf incorrectly does not cause glibc to default
to localhost, to solve this issue please apply one of the patches in:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10851
These commits were included since glibc-2.11:
Andreas Schwab (1):
Fix infloop in __pthread_disable_asynccancel on x86_64
H.J. Lu (1):
Properly recover from shorter read.
Jakub Jelinek (1):
Fix sync_file_range on ppc/ppc64.
Mike Frysinger (3):
Add missing stdio.h include.
Fix building on x86 with older kernel headers.
Missing CL.
Paolo Bonzini (1):
Fix ranges with multibyte characters as endpoints.
Petr Baudis (1):
glibc 2.11.1 release
Ulrich Drepper (15):
Fix F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX definitions.
Add missing Linux MADV_* definitions.
Fix _NC_LOCALE_NAME definition.
Handle LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE in duplocale.
Add missing test files.
Whitespace fixes.
Avoid warnings in CPU_* macros when using const bitsets.
Fix getwc* and putwc* on non-wide streams.
Reinitialize _create_xid state after fork.
Fix week information for nl_NL locale.
Define week, first_weekday, and first_workday for en_DK locale.
Define week, first_weekday, and first_workday for hsb_DE locale.
Fix startup to security-relevant statically linked binaries.
Prevent unintended file desriptor leak in grantpt.
Avoid local PLTs.
Enjoy!
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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