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List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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-Time-stamp: <1997-03-20T02:33:37+0100 drepper>
+Time-stamp: <1997-03-22T04:31:41+0100 drepper>
This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
-make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. I you can fix one
-of these bugs I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
+make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
+of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
-Severity: [ *] to [***]
+Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
+GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface is available at
+
+ http://pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
+
+I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
+reported before by looking though the database. To make the information
+in this data as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
+`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
-[***] Profiling currently does not work with programs using NSS.
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Severity: [ *] to [***]
-[***] At least on Linux/Alpha, there seem to be problems with dynamically
- loading NSS modules in certain situations.
- [PR libc/137]
[ **] For GNU libc on Linux, there is still no solution for the UTMP
problem.
@@ -23,7 +30,7 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***]
[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
[ **] The `cbrtl' function is inaccurate. The algorithm used for `double'
- and `float' is not usable.
+ and `float' is not usable for `long double'.
[ **] Not really a bug, but it could lead to such:
The RPC code is ugly ugly ugly. It's more or less verbatim taken
@@ -37,3 +44,19 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***]
[ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
flag was given.
[PR libc/72]
+
+[ *] On Linux, the <linux/posix_types.h> is not clean enough to satisfy
+ the C++ namespace rules. Declaring `struct fd_set' also makes
+ `fd_set' available in the global namespace which conflicts with
+ the definition of `fd_set' in glibc.
+ [PR libc/79]
+
+[ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
+ NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
+ is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
+ symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
+ [PR libc/140]
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Ulrich Drepper
+drepper@cygnus.com