On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:17:44PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > While there hasn't been any discussion for glibc bugzilla report #685 > [1], private communication with one of the glibc maintainers indicates > that this issue is not considered to be a glibc bug because, > officially, glibc supports only one thread library at a time: > LinuxThreads _or_ NPTL, but not both at the same time. Of course, > every distro I know of ships both NPTL and LinuxThreads and the > apparently accepted workaround appears to be to use the ld.so that was > built for NPTL rather than the one that was built for LinuxThreads > (more precisely, the ld.so should be used which uses larger thread > descriptors). Thus, I strongly suspect Debian should do the same. > Since this bug results in memory corruption that can be very hard to > track down, I hope this can be fixed quickly. As a temporary > workaround, just doing: > > # mv /lib/tls/ld-2.3.2.so /lib/ > > should cure the problem.
ISTR that Red Hat has a patch for this in their glibc RPMs already. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
