> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:48:09 +0200 > From: Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> > CC: jsm...@suse.de, chet.ra...@case.edu, arn...@skeeve.com, > bug-bash@gnu.org, bug-...@gnu.org > > I may even agree, but the fact remains that until you fix it in glibc, > you have not fixed it. As long as glibc doesn't change, there's no > point in changing everything else. It will only introduce inconsistency.
If glibc is the only place where this problem exists, we can treat that as a bug in glibc. Until that bug is solved, we can work around it by providing replacement code.