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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:24:11 +0200
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On 7 Jun 2011 at 11:56, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Fedora was able to disable the fixed-address vdso in its newer 32-bit 
> distro kernels because it *upgraded glibc*.

and what happened to those apps that users statically linked against
the older glibc? what happened to their chroots that had dynamically
linked binaries with an older glibc? did you not break those either?

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