glibc 2.25 machine status?

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 17:45:00 GMT 2017


On 02/01/2017 06:09 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2017 05:48 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> The glibc 2.25 release date is Feburary 1st 2017 (this Wednesday).
>
> Florian and I are still working on the fix to tunables environment
> variables behavior.  It is a critical flaw that we need to fix before
> the fix goes out, so the release is held up until then.

As a fallback, we could simply strip GLIBC_TUNABLES for HAVE_TUNABLES as 
well.  This would reduce most of the risk from this change.

Florian



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