Bug#161515: libc6 pread() does not work correctly on non-i386 platforms
At Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:45:25 +0100,
Marco Pratesi wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:48:54AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > There are two reasons that is difficult to fix.
> > In first, backporting such fix may introduce many updates, so
> > it's unacceptable for stable. Secondly, updating stable is not
> > acceptable except for critical reason ex) security issue...
> >
> > OK, if you want to keep this bug as open to stay in, I tag it as
> > "woody, wontfix". Many bugs have been closed even if stable has bugs,
> > though. I think the current debian BTS system is not good designed
> > for the stable bug report tracking, so I think the decision of keeping
> > it as open is whether keeping this bug is useful, important and
> > critical for the other people, or not. Do you think?
>
> Do the choice that you consider the best one...
I reread http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15983, and rethought.
PHP problems were gone but this problem still perplexes the people,
especially multi architecture support system; thus debian woody. I
decided not to close and tag as "woody, wontfix"...
> I am acquainted
> of this bug, hence it's not a big problem for me: if I run into
> trouble, I can open the sources of PHP (or any other package),
> find and workaround the problem.
Indeed.
I hope this bug report about pread/pwrite issue is the guidepost to
fix sources as PHP way for example, for the people who hit the
problem.
Regards,
-- gotom
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