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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Major new features:
leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
from a security and performance perspective.
+* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
+ stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
+ in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
+ process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer