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From: Mitch Adair <mitch@theneteffect.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5 changeset 1.952.4.2 corrupt in fs/jfs/inode.c
To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:02:59 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <20030205235126.GA21064@work.bitmover.com> from "Larry McVoy" at Feb 05, 2003 03:51:26 PM
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> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:45:55AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:31, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > (BTW, Larry, the bk binaries segfault on my (glibc 2.3.1) i686 system. Any
> > > > chance we could see binaries linked against 2.3.x? There's NSS badness between
> > > > 2.2 and 2.3 that causes even static binaries to segfault ... )
> > > 
> > > Yes, NSS in glibc is the world's worst garbage.  Glibc segfaults if there
> > > is no /etc/nsswitch.conf.  Nice.
> > 
> > bugzilla is your friend
> 
> Excuse my ignorance but how is that going to help me?  I know the problem
> and the work around so is there some magic voodoo chant in a bugzilla db
> someplace which will make glibc not segfault without changing the system?

Yes!  Say it with me:

"I will let someone know so they can fix it.  Shazam!"

:))

	M
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