Pre-release review of glibc 2.17: 0 P1 bugs, 14 P2 bugs, 0 P3 bugs.

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Nov 29 18:17:00 GMT 2012


On Thursday 29 November 2012 11:50:06 David Miller wrote:
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
> > "fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams"
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12724
> > - No patch exists, and too risky.
> 
> Agreed.  It's troubling to see that a major system component like Ruby
> seems to be running into problems because of this.

various distros (at least Arch, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE) have been carrying this 
revert patch since glibc-2.14:
http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.16.0/0068_all_glibc-2.16-
glibc-revert-fseek-on-fclose.patch

*looks* fairly low risk
-mike
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