Re: glibc 2, Linux 2.x and the world of many patches!

Mike Kilburn (mike@conexio.co.za)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:58:06 +0200 (SAT)


Teunis Peters <teunis@usa.net> wrote:

> And I've heard that RedHat is as well, which seems to cover the really
> visible distribs. GOOD! (so no more linux-1.2 -> linux-2.0 type jumps!)

I wish. Most of the things that broke between 1.2 and 2.0 would not
be helped by glibc. Remember there are always some userland stuff which will
require kernel structures and there is no libc interface.