On 11/17/2010 11:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> So we should be able simply to patch glibc, right? Can't see any reason >> not to. > > Because it's NOT a bug in glibc, because what glibc does is CORRECT, > because it actually POINTS OUT bugs in applications which are > portability issues and can hurt future optimization opportunities > (regardless of whether the current implementation really is faster > than before or not) Which it isn't. > and, most importantly, because it is NOT our job to work around bugs > in proprietary software! How is any of that a reason not to patch glibc? Upside of patching: happy users. Downside: nothing. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
