Which Kernel version for glibc 2.1 ?

[Ulrich Drepper]

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de> writes:

> With which Linux Kernel should glibc 2.1 work ? Should all things work
> with linux 2.0.xx, or could we expect newer kernel versions ?
> 
> I ask this, because nscd needs linux 2.1.108pre1. And the old libc/keyserv
> interface for secure RPC (needed for NIS+ for example), is very, very slow 
> and makes a lot of problems.
> 
> I have get some new, great hints, which will make it much more faster,
> and much more secure. The problem is, the correspdending syscalls are not
> implemented in linux 2.0.
> 
> Should I put more work in it ? 

I think so.  The solution will probably be that we don't remove the
old code.  Simply decide at program startup time which code to use.

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