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Re: glibc 2.9
- From: Andreas Radke <a dot radke at arcor dot de>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:43:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.9
- References: <491CB317.7050106@redhat.com>
Am Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:07:03 -0800
schrieb Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>:
> There is one known potential problem with the name resolving which has
> been extensively changed. Under some circumstance (always involving
> broken servers) requests are not completely processed. Often a second
> call fixes the problem. This might be fixed in the latest code, maybe
> not. Unfortunately no reported has been able or willing to provide
> the information needed to track down the problem.
I think we have run into this at ArchLinux. We have used a branch
checkout from _glibcdate=20081119 to build our testing glibc package.
Please have a look at this bugreport:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12215
Maybe you know a workaround.
-Andy