Bug#218516: linux-kernel-headers: Check for symbolic link before installing

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:52:20PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote:
> Eric Valette wrote:
> 
> >>Because Sarge supports NPTL when using 2.6 kernels, and that requires
> >>2.6 headers to be useful.  A number of other applications can take
> >>advantage of 2.6 features there now.
> >
> >
> >NPTL is fine mostly for servers. But I guess a number of user mode 
> >driver for average people will also probably break right now because of 
> >API inconsistencies between 2.4 and 2.6 (raw 1394 or USB are expected). 
> >I start wondering if a 2.4 GLIBC and a 2.6 GLIBC should be envisaged?
> 
> Ooops. See thread about NPTL performances problem compared to 
> linuxthread due to bad locking locking strategy.
> 
> <http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0468.html>
> 
> NB: apparently CVS NPTL is fixed but waht about debian libc :-)

Not due to bad locking strategy, due to a _typo_ essentially.

We're going to fix performance issues when we have a freaking C library
that _works_ again, OK?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer