[PATCH] pldd.1: Document glibc's unbreakage of tool.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 7/29/19 3:18 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 5/17/19 5:56 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:51 AM G. Branden Robinson
>> <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What would you prefer?  That the man page not document the bug at all?
>>> Was it a mistake in your view to have added the information about the
>>> bug to the man page in the first place?
>>
>> I think having the glibc upstream version information is useful.
> 
> And so do I. My compromise in such cases is to write something like:
> this:
> 
> BUGS
>         From  glibc  2.19 to 2.29, pldd was broken: it just hung when exe‐
>         cuted.  This problem was fixed in glibc 2.30, and the fix has been
>         backported to earlier glibc versions in some distributions.
> 
> Thanks,

Thank you for being accurate and informative.

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Cheers,
Carlos.