[RFC 0/2] Backport 16961 and 16962 to release/2.20/master

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 05/31/2016 05:01 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-05-27 19:23, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
>> I'd like to backport these patches to ibm/2.20/master.  May I backport this to
>> release/2.20/master, first?
>>
>> They haven't been backported to any stable branches, yet.
>>
>> Tested on ppc, ppc64 and ppc64le.
> 
> I am not sure it is a good idea to backport this patch to stable
> branches, as it add new symbols and a dependency between libm and libc.
> 
> In practice that causes issues if a binary started using the old libc
> starts to dlopen a library which uses libm. It requires the user to
> restart all processes immediately after the upgrade, I am not sure
> it's something we want to require in a stable branch.
 
Agreed. Without any further justification I also don't think it's
appropriate to fix 16961 and 16962 on 2.20 stable branch.

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Cheers,
Carlos.