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Time-stamp: <2001-06-15T21:21:36 drepper>
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This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
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make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
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of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
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Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
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GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
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Update.
1997-10-26 18:12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* libio/genops.c: Partial undo of last patch.
* libio/stdfiles.c: Likewise.
* libio/iofdopen.c: Use _IO_FILE_complete, not _IO_file_plus.
* libio/iopopen.c: Likewise.
* libio/iovdprintf.c: Likewise.
* libio/libio.h: Remove duplicated `;'.
* libio/stdio.c: Remove misleading comment.
* libio/stdio.h: Declare standard streams as variables.
* login/Makefile (distribute): Add README.utmpd.
* login/README.utmpd: New file.
Provided by Mark M. Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.
* manual/job.texi: Document tcgetsid.
* manual/pattern.texi: Document globfree.
* manual/terminal.texi: Document B38400 ... B460800.
* posix/confstr.c: Print "-D_FILE_OFFSET_SIZE=64" for _CS_LFS_CFLAGS.
* posix/unistd.h: Add explanation of _POSIX_* constants.
* posix/unists.h: Add prototypes for __pread, __pread64, __pwrite
and __pwrite64.
* sysdeps/generic/pread.c: Define as __pread and make pread weak alias.
* sysdeps/generic/pread64.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/pwrite.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/pwrite64.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/pread.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/pwrite.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/pread64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/posix/pwrite64.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$(subdir)=posix] (sysdep_routines):
Add s_pread64 and s_pwrite64.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s_pread64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s_pwrite64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Add pread and pwrite.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/pread64.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/pwrite64.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/pread64.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/pwrite64.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add pread and pwrite
with weak aliases for *64 functions.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* string/bits/string2.h: Add casts to allow void * arguments.
* sysdeps/i386/i486/bits/string.h: Define index and rindex only if
__USE_BSD or __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h: Add SCM_RIGHTS and other
SCM_* constants from kernel header.
* termios/termios.h: Add prototype for tcgetsid.
1997-10-26 13:26 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
* sunrpc/clnt_perr.c: Add trailing '\0' to strings.
* sunrpc/get_myaddr.c: Include rpc/clnt.h for prototypes.
* sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c: Use get_myaddress from header file.
1997-10-26 05:26 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* configure.in: Punt if any directory mentioned in the
enable-add-on parameter does not exist.
1997-10-25 19:25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* termios/Makefile (routines): Add tcgetsid.
* termios/tcgetsid.c: New file.
Provided by Mark M. Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.
1997-10-25 18:56 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* stdlib/stdlib.h: Remove mblen optimization.
* stdlib/mblen.c: Rewrite to make sure global state is not changed.
Reported by anderson@metrolink.com.
1997-10-19 21:51 Wolfram Gloger <wg@wolfram.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
* malloc/thread-m.h [_LIBC]: Use new __libc_internal_tsd_{set,get}
interface for thread-specific data.
1997-10-25 06:51 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* elf/dl-addr.c: Use braces for correct logical grouping.
Patch by Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>.
1997-10-18 09:15 Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
* io/ftwtest-sh: Sometimes /tmp is a symlink to somewhere more
convenient; that caused this test to break.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-machine.h: Fix typo.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenv.h: Don't use floating-point registers
when -msoft-float is in effect, because this causes compilation to
stop.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/mathinlines.h: Likewise.
* rpm/template: Add description, use RPM flags rather than the ones
used to build the spec. Build in a temporary directory, not /.
* elf/dl-lookup.c: Don't include _itoa.h, it's not used.
* elf/dl-minimal.c: Use _itoa_word rather than _itoa. It seems that
_itoa is the only routine that ld.so uses that requires something
from libgcc.a on powerpc, so it would be best to avoid it in ld.so.
* elf/rtld.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/_strerror.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/_itoa.c: Split out digits strings.
* stdio-common/itoa-digits.c: New file.
* stdio-common/Makefile: Add itoa-digits.
1997-10-21 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/filesys.texi (Scanning Directory Content): Document error
case more.
* dirent/scandir.c (scandir): Ignore errors from select function.
Suggested by urbanw@cs.umu.se (closes PR libc/316).
1997-10-25 06:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/socket.S: Corrections.
Patch by Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>.
1997-10-25 04:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.c (_dl_load_cache_lookup): Favour exact
matching of version function if both the general (1) and
glibc-specific (3) entry are present.
1997-10-22 18:47 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
* sunrpc/rpc/clnt.h: Add get_myaddress prototype.
* nis/libnsl.map: Fix typo.
* nis/nis_call.c: Fix memory leak.
1997-10-22 19:29 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/generic/memcmp.c: Define __P if not defined before.
Patch by Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>.
1997-10-21 22:09 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/prctl.h: New file by Richard Gooch
<rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>.
1997-10-21 21:50 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* misc/syslog.c (vsyslog): Open console with O_NOCTTY.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1997-10-21 18:07 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* posix/wordexp.c: Improve handling of $... expressions.
Patch by Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>.
1997-10-21 16:12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* manual/string.texi: Correct return values of bcopy and bzero.
Patch by Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>.
1997-10-18 15:03 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h: Correct types of some
elements in struct msghdr and struct cmsghdr, to keep in step with
the kernel.
1997-10-17 22:29 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/init-first.h: Fix another
bug in startup code.
Patch by Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>.
1997-10-16 20:17 Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/socket.S: Dump args to the
stack and give the kernel a pointer. Use the sysdep.h macros.
1997-10-17 04:07 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/elf/start.S: Calculate argv correctly.
Patch by Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>.
1997-10-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nextafterxf.c [!__STDC__]: Correct typo.
1997-10-16 14:50 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* manual/pattern.texi: Document globfree.
1997-10-15 21:11 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_packet.h: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_headers): Add
net/if_packet.h.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_arp.h (ARPHRD_ASH): New type, for
64Mbps ASH.
(ARPHRD_ETHER): This is used for 100Mbps networks too.
1997-10-15 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* Makerules (install): Use full pathnames for linker script.
This is to work around a limitation in `ld' while no better solution
is possible.
1997-10-15 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* malloc/malloc.c (mmap_chunk): Put inline before static in
function definition to avoid compiler warning.
(malloc_extend): Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/des_impl.c: Include "des.h" to avoid warning.
1997-10-15 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* NEWS: Fix @gnu.ai.mit.edu -> @gnu.org.
* README.template: Likewise.
* db/makedb.c: Likewise.
* elf/ldd.bash.in: Likewise.
* elf/ldd.sh.in: Likewise.
* intl/locale.alias: Likewise.
* login/programs/utmpd.c: Likewise.
* libio/stdfiles.c [!_IO_MTSAFE] (DEF_STDFILE): Fix parameter list.
1997-10-14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Rules: Remove all empty.* files.
(shared-only-routines): Correct implementation.
1997-10-14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_lrintl.c: Make compilable.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_llrintl.c: Likewise. Optimized.
1997-10-14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* elf/ldd.bash.in: Only prepend ./ if the file contains no slash
at all.
* elf/ldd.sh.in: Likewise.
1997-10-14 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/m68k/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1997-10-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbln.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalblnf.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalblnl.c: New (empty) file.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbn.c: Add scalbln alias.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbnf.c: Adapted.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_scalbnl.c: Adapted.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrint.c: Add standard skeleton stuff.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrintf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/s_lrintl.c: New file.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/bits/mathinline.h: Add fma and scalbln. Update
lrint and scalbn.
(__m81_inline) [__cplusplus]: Define to __inline.
* math/bits/mathcalls.h: Remove whitespace before second argument
of __MATHDECL. Add note explaining this.
1997-10-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* manual/arith.texi (Absolute Value): Spelling fix.
1997-10-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* malloc/obstack.h (obstack_empty_p) [!__GNUC__]: Properly
parenthesize the macro parameter.
* Rules: Remove rules to magically install <subdir>.h headers.
1997-10-26 21:13:00 +01:00
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I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
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reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
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in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
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`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. Before reporting
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a bug please check the FAQ since it discusses also a lot of problematic
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situations.
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Severity: [ *] to [***]
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2000-01-01 20:35:36 +01:00
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[ **] Closing shared objects in statically linked binaries most of the
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1999-12-08 10:15:00 +01:00
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times leads to crashes during the dlopen(). Hard to fix.
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[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
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1999-04-20 10:54:33 +02:00
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[ **] The RPC code is not 64 bit clean. This is getting slowly fixed
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but expect incompatible changes on 64 bit platforms like Alpha.
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2001-06-16 06:34:51 +02:00
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[ **] If a DSO is using implicitly libpthread and the application itself
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does not there is a name lookup problem. E.g., the function fork()
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will be found in the libc.so instead of libpthread since the thread
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library is behind the libc. To correct this problem it must *not*
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be relied on the currently still enabled handling of weak symbols
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in the dynamic linker. Instead explicit tests for the availability
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of the libpthread version are needed. [PR libc/2325]
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1997-03-20 03:20:57 +01:00
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[ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
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to be the best.
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1997-03-23 02:54:07 +01:00
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[ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
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NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
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is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
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symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
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[PR libc/140]
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1998-02-26 12:20:59 +01:00
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[ *] The libm-ieee `gamma' function gives wrong results (at least for
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-0.5).
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[ *] The libm-ieee `scalb' function gives wrong results for
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non-integral second parameters.
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1997-11-13 01:21:19 +01:00
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2000-01-01 20:35:36 +01:00
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[ *] Collation symbol and equivalence class handling in regex are not
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yet 100% correct.
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- [. .] at end of a range does not work
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- [. .] and [= =] do not handle collating symbols (where a symbol
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stands for multiple character) and multibyte character in
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general not correctly.
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This is *extremely* hard to fix since regex has to be rewritten
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completely.
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2000-07-14 11:25:46 +02:00
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[ *] The regex implementation has various other problems, like limitations
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of the expression size etc. [PR libc/1570, PR libc/1777]
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None of these can be fixed without a rewrite.
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2000-08-28 06:08:02 +02:00
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[ *] Several (most?) collation specifications are broken. The code which
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is currently there is in most cases inherited from the originial
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author (in case there is a LC_COLLATE specification in the locale
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file) or is defined using the default (if iso14651_t1 is included).
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In any case we are missing information to correct the specification.
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If you find the specification for your language be faulty please
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send a report with instruction on what to fix. You don't have to
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fix the specification yourself.
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The way it finally should look like (if the generic specification
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is not correct) can be seen in the sv_SE file. Quite a few changes
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on top of the generic specification can be made without duplication
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of the whole LC_COLLATE description.
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2000-11-08 22:20:06 +01:00
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[ *] Some of the functions which also handled IPv6 are currently broken.
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This includes getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo(). IPv4 handling of
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these functions is OK though and there are patches available to fix
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the IPv6 code as well.
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drepper@cygnus.com
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