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Re: tst-open-tmpfile and pre-3.18 kernels

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:04:35 +0000
Subject: Re: tst-open-tmpfile and pre-3.18 kernels
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References: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701021738520.24470@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <d1889c1c-ab6f-e9fe-7513-bd6ca11cae41@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I'd suggest documenting it in the release notes.  Perhaps this test failure is
> a little bit of encouragement to backport the fix to supported kernels.

At least some have the backport.  (I'm using a QEMU VM set up once for 
testing and not updated since then, and expected to be replaced with a new 
VM installation with a newer OS version when the glibc kernel version 
requirement moves past 3.14.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- tst-open-tmpfile and pre-3.18 kernels
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: tst-open-tmpfile and pre-3.18 kernels
  - From: Florian Weimer

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