glibc 2.23 --- Hard freeze starting

Siddhesh Poyarekar sid@reserved-bit.com
Thu Jan 21 17:20:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:13:47AM -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> The full context is that the above is not acceptable to the distros.
> They insist on an common and dynamic mechanism to enable/disable.

Distros can backport the tunables patchset to any release since it
does not change the ABI.

> I fear that this group will not find consensus in the absence of some
> forcing issue. Otherwise the discussion (with lack of consensus) and
> associate delays will go on indefinitely.
> 
> This has been delayed too long. It is time to end the debate.

The delay was entirely my fault.  I was unable to get back on this
task in time to allow enough time for everyone to review and come to a
consensus.

Siddhesh



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