Bug#40677: libc6: libc6 is missing symbol __bind and friends

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de wrote:

> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.1.1-12
> Severity: important
> 
> In contrast to glibc-2.0 some __-symbols are missing in glibc-2.1. The
> preload library libsockspl.so from the socks package needs the symbols
> __accept, __bind, __connect and __listen because it want to replace
> them with it's own version and then call the original function. The
> code which worked for glibc-2.0 does not work anymore in glibc_2.1.

I guess the __ symbols were internal libc symbols not meant to be called
from outside, so it was ok for them to disappear. If something needs them,
then it is not a bug in the libc, it is, in this case a bug in libsockspl
and should be fixed there.

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