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Subject: Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:40, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > The link to the mailing list post from bug-glibc says otherwise,
> > that is the problem.  Using the unlocked version isn't implied by
> > not setting __REENTRANT.
> 
> The bug is in glibc. An application shouldn't need to be changed to
> work around that bug. putc() is a well-known interface, and people
> shouldn't have to code around a change in that interface.

Right.  That's why I referenced a post on bug-glibc and called the issue
a problem.  I'm not defending the heaping mass known as glibc ... it
should be fixed.

	Robert Love

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