1 List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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4 Time-stamp: <1997-12-28T12:54:55+0100 drepper>
6 This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
7 make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
8 of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
10 Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
11 GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
13 http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
15 I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
16 reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
17 in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
18 `glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc.
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23 Severity: [ *] to [***]
26 [ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
28 [ **] The libm-ieee `log2' function seems to be very inaccurate.
30 [ *] The libm-ieee `asin' function gives wrong results (at least for 0.5).
32 [ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
35 [ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
39 [ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
40 NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
41 is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
42 symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
45 [ *] When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
46 directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
47 checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
51 [ *] The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
52 which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
53 which are not defined in the charmap.
56 [ *] _IO_getline can loop forever, at least with C++
59 [ *] The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
60 not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
62 [ **] When popen() was called with an illegal command the function still
63 returns with a value not equal to NULL.
65 [ *] setlocale() leaks memory. This becomes only a problem if a program
66 calls this function very often which normally is not the case. The
67 problem is fixed for glibc 2.1.
69 [ *] Using the NSS modules from statically linked programs sometimes
70 fails (for very large entries). The problem is fixed in glibc 2.1.
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