From a5f4e34a264b7cd296f8ca890ca4eaa1d0f99317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:54:54 +0000 Subject: Update. 1998-08-10 15:49 Ulrich Drepper * include/dirent.h: Protect from double inclusion. 1998-08-09 Mark Kettenis * posix/glob.h: Add LFS support for glob and globfree. * posix/Versions [GLIBC_2.1]: Add glob64 and globfree64. * posix/Makefile (routines): Add glob64. * sysdeps/generic/glob64.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/glob64.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/glob64.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/glob64.c: New file. * sysdeps/generic/glob.c [_LIBC && glob] (__glob_pattern_p): Elide function. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/glob.c: Add glob64 as a weak alias for __new_glob. Likewise for globfree64. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/glob.c: New file. 1998-08-09 Andreas Schwab * sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Remove -include flag from command. --- FAQ.in | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'FAQ.in') diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 4f65022..c4bafc0 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -997,6 +997,21 @@ e.g. __ivaliduser). If a program uses these interfaces, it's broken. These internal interfaces might change between glibc releases or dropped completely. +?? When using the db-2 library which comes with glibc is used in + the Perl db modules the testsuite is not passed. This did not + happen with db-1, gdbm, or ndbm. + +{UD} You are using an outdated copy of the DB_File Perl module. In fact db-2 +finally removed the handling of zero-sized keys which was one of the features +tested by the old Perl testsuite and therefore you see an error. But this +never was documented and guaranteed, only broken programs used this feature. + +Consequently db-2 does not need to support this feature and instead signals +an error which leads to easier debugging. The DB_File module maintainer +Paul Marquess acknowledged this change and fixed +the testsuite so that if you use DB_File v1.60 or later you should not have +any more problems with db-2. + ? Miscellaneous -- cgit v1.1