glibc-2.0.95 causes ls -al & ps -aux to segfault.
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Tue Aug 4 16:32:00 GMT 1998
>
> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de> writes:
>
> > To keep the old libnss_*.so.1 modules back doesn't really fix
> > the problem. For libnss_*.so.2, there are also some changes in
> > internal libc functions, which have no new version symbol, and
> > are not binary compatible. I have make 2 add ons, one for
> > libdb 1.85, and one with the libnss_*.so.1 modules with the
> > old nss version 1 interface.
>
> Keeping the old nss modules is only necessary if you explicitly link
> with them. Who or what did this? It should never happen.
>
That is not true. Under glibc, even the static binaries may use
the shared nss modules. Personally, I think it is bad since a static
binary may not be truly static.
H.J.
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