Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:00 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > With the next push you'll see the first new glibc version for rawhide > > (2.8.90-1). This version has quite a few changes, most prominently > > changes to getaddrinfo. > > > > The new implementation should be faster since it parallelizes DNS > > lookups and avoids code duplication in many other cases. But the DNS > > optimization is also what I'm a bit concerned about. I tested the code > > with a local bind daemon and all works well. What I haven't done is > > testing it with other DNS servers. > > > > Everybody should look out for changes in the host name resolution. > > There shouldn't be any but who knows. > > > > Those who are using DNS servers other than bind might want to give the > > code bounding. Especially also the fallback code to issue lookups with > > TCP (you can force this by setting the RES_USEVC bit in _res.options, > > see <resolv.h>). > > This glibc made it into the chroot we use to produce rawhide, which > promptly started causing invalid pointer free errors when yum was > called: > > *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: > 0x00007fffa6ead9ab *** > > Granted, this was a chroot on a FC6 box, not sure if that's going to > "taint" things, but I had to roll back glibc in order to get a rawhide > compose going. I get lots of ugly messages scrolling by starting X, and no X. i686, dual core. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
