Bug#221855: ld.so: Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:01:14PM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We use veritas netbackup executive and unfortunately running with
> version 2.3.2.ds1-10 of the libc6 package is causing us significant
> headaches.
> 
> The veritas software is poorly written, and as a result, we get the
> error message mentioned in the subject line written to stderr every time
> one of the veritas programs is run.
> 
> The veritas netbackup management software sees this error message (one
> it is not expecting) and assumes something horrible has happened and
> aborts the backup for that host. This is plainly undesirable.
> 
> Looking at " glibc23-errno-hack.dpatch " in the debian/patches directory
> of the source, I can see no way to suppress this warning message.
> Unfortunately this means that currently we can't backup a whole pile of
> systems.
> 
> Is there any way to suppress the message which I haven't spotted?

No.  But I'm thinking about just disabling the error message for this
release, since yours is the second report of a problem.

Opinions:
  - Disable the message entirely
  - Print the message only under 2.6 kernels when LD_ASSUME_KERNEL was
not used and TLS would have been used but was disabled for this reason.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer