next test release (5th)

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 30, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:30:16AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have only one bigger problem: H.J. Lu's patch for sunrpc/udp
> > (IP_PKTINFO) patch does not seem to work on big endian platforms.
> > 
> > The server sends the data to the network, but the client never
> > becomes the answer. I will try to look at it, but I don't know
> > anything about IP_PKTINFO.
> 
> I think this is related to the portmap hang on boot. Older kernels used to
> even crash when glibc 2.1.9x portmap was started, then DaveM fixed a bug in
> the kernel and said something needs to be fixed in userland as well, but I
> did not get to it yet and cannot find the mail right now (vger is not
> accessible now and DaveM is until monday? on holidays).
> So I guess 2.1.95 can be released with this known issue and I'll work with
> DaveM on fixing sunrpc/udp on SPARC soon afterwards.

Does this mean there is a bug in the SPARC code in all kernel versions
with IP_PKTINFO ? Maybe this a problem with sparc64, but I doubt this
is the reason for the sparc32 problems with HJLs patch.

If I remove the patch from HJL, everything works fine on sparc32.
Try the following: boot a sparc32 system with glibc 2.1.94 without
HJLs patch. Then kill ypbind and restart it, but LD_PRELOAD glibc 2.1.94
with the patch. Everything will work except ypbind. So I doubt that it
is a problem with the kernel and portmap. I think the portmap problem
you see comes from the problem with glibc.

  Thorsten

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