Undo setrlimit patch for 2.1.3

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun Jan 23 09:03:00 GMT 2000


On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 05:49:25PM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Cristian Gafton, Andreas Schwab, Andreas Jaeger and me have the opinium,
> that we should revert the setrlimit changes for glibc 2.1.3. Which means,
> RedHat and SuSE will ship the next glibc 2.1.3 without the setrlimit
> changes.
> 
> The reason is simple: We have a binary incompatiblity between glibc 2.1.3
> and glibc 2.1.2, but no new functionality or bug fixes.
> All Distributors uses the stable 2.2.x kernel, and nobody knows when
> 2.4 is ready. So it doesn't make sense to have unused support for one
> new feature.
> 

I thought it was handled by the symbol versioning and I had fixed the
linker to do the right thing. Do you have a testcase to show that
glibc 2.1.3 is binary incompatible with glibc 2.1.2? Are you talking
about binaries compiled against glibc 2.1.3 won't run with glibc 2.1.2?
As you may know, it is true even if the setrlimit changes are backed
out, due to those new symbols with version GLIBC_2.1.3.


H.J.


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