Re: (usagi-core 00275) Re: glibc-2.1.97 fixes from USAGI Project

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> I was mistaken: glibc-2.2 with linus-2.4 problem is another issue.
> To clarify:
> 
>                              compiled with
>                         glibc-2.1   glibc-2.2
> --------------------------------------------------
> kernel 2.2 + glibc-2.1  buggy       -
>            + glibc-2.2  ng          buggy
> 	   + usagi-2.2  ok          ok
> kernel 2.4 + glibc-2.1  buggy       -
>            + glibc-2.2  ng          buggy
>            + usagi-2.2  ok          ok

For those of us not following IPv6 that closely, could you please
elaborate on this table somewhat? Specifically, it appears that glibc
2.2 compiled applications, when used with glibc 2.2 on a kernel 2.4,
are still buggy, and that they work fine when your patch is applied -
IOW, there is are IPv6 bugs in glibc 2.1.9x.

Can you please give an example for this bug? What kind of bug is it?
(application crashes, does not work as expected, does not implement
latest specification drafts, ...)

I'd agree with Ulrich that the other cases are less interesting; if
you are going to operate an IPv6 installation, it is not asked too
much to use latest software throughout.

Regards,
Martin