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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-12-24 21:04:27 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-12-24 21:04:27 +0000
commit0497df82f58e4bb777ccbd3a9bf9a81294f51414 (patch)
tree2f563a44f77df44a28feeaa6059d8f9dfe67e66d
parent5cc33d237debf9245d25c48c6e4d2a5c70d429a0 (diff)
Update.
-rw-r--r--BUGS8
-rw-r--r--FAQ14
-rw-r--r--README.template6
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index d5dc52b7d9..9894c1ce08 100644
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
----------------------------------------------
-Time-stamp: <1997-11-22T02:35:55+0100 drepper>
+Time-stamp: <1997/12/24 21:37:17 drepper>
This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
- http://www-gnats.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
+ http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Severity: [ *] to [***]
[ **] When popen() was called with an illegal command the function still
returns with a value not equal to NULL.
+[ *] setlocale() leaks memory. This becomes only a problem if a program
+ calls this function very often which normally is not the case. The
+ problem is fixed for glibc 2.1.
+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com
diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index d8d2bcd747..899e5fee48 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ please let me know.
--drepper@cygnus.com
-~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1. Compiling glibc
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ please let me know.
Nothing seems to work.
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+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1. Compiling glibc
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ few people have expressed interest.
If you have a system not listed above (or in the `README' file) and
you are really interested in porting it, contact
- <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
+ <bug-glibc@gnu.org>
1.2. What compiler do I need to build GNU libc?
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ The compilation of these extra libraries and the compiler optimizations
slow down the build process and need more disk space.
-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Installation and configuration issues
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ happened. So in case of doubt report such a warning message as a
problem.
-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ and return EINTR (for example, to implement a timeout) you can do this with
siginterrupt().
-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Miscellaneous
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ snapshot, according to Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>, the
required kernel version is at least 2.1.30.
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+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Answers were given by:
{UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>
diff --git a/README.template b/README.template
index 682d322420..a18b9d15a2 100644
--- a/README.template
+++ b/README.template
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations,
these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't
work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested
in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending
-electronic mail to <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
+electronic mail to <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
The GNU C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what
facilities you want it to make available.
We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which
-is install together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
+is install together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.org>.
Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless
-you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> as normal
+you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@gnu.org> as normal
electronic mails.
The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying