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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-05-01 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-05-07 Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -10,10 +10,24 @@ Version 2.5 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also handles rules 3 and 7 from RFC 3484. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. +* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplace. * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. +* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate + option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results + of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some + site might have problems with default behavior. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* Iterating over entire database in NIS and NIS+ can be slow. With the + SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide + to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + Version 2.4 |