new rawhide glibc

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Fri May 16 07:26:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:16 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:00 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > With the next push you'll see the first new glibc version for rawhide
> > (2.8.90-1).  This version has quite a few changes, most prominently
> > changes to getaddrinfo.
> > 
> > The new implementation should be faster since it parallelizes DNS
> > lookups and avoids code duplication in many other cases.  But the DNS
> > optimization is also what I'm a bit concerned about.  I tested the code
> > with a local bind daemon and all works well.  What I haven't done is
> > testing it with other DNS servers.
> > 
> > Everybody should look out for changes in the host name resolution.
> > There shouldn't be any but who knows.
> > 
> > Those who are using DNS servers other than bind might want to give the
> > code bounding.  Especially also the fallback code to issue lookups with
> > TCP (you can force this by setting the RES_USEVC bit in _res.options,
> > see <resolv.h>).
> 
> This glibc made it into the chroot we use to produce rawhide, which
> promptly started causing invalid pointer free errors when yum was
> called:

Also ssh/sshd is completely broken :(
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446801

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb




More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list