On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:04:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > We use 2.0.6 here because it is half the size of the newer glibcs and it > > seems to work fine for us. > > It trust someone patched the holes in it for things like DNS lookups ? The latest glibc 2.0.6 I was spreading only has MIPS-specific bug fixes. All the other big holes which are indeed big enough to drive a nice shipload of trucks through are unfixed. I haven't noticed that any other glibc 2.0 variant floating around has additional fixes. Nice for Cobalt boxen ... Ralf