Bug#224665: misleading error text `FATAL: cannot determine library version'

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
Severity: minor

Hello, Debian GLibc maintainers,

sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-osinfo.h read:
....
#define DL_SYSDEP_OSCHECK(FATAL) \
  do {									      \
    /* Test whether the kernel is new enough.  This test is only	      \
       performed if the library is not compiled to run on all		      \
       kernels.  */							      \
    if (__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION > 0)					      \
      {									      \
      ....
	/* Try the uname syscall */					      \
	if (__uname (&uts))					      	      \
	  {							      	      \
	    /* This was not successful.  Now try reading the /proc	      \
	       filesystem.  */						      \
	    ssize_t reslen;						      \
	    int fd = __open ("/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease", O_RDONLY);	      \
	    if (fd == -1						      \
		|| (reslen = __read (fd, bufmem, sizeof (bufmem))) <= 0)      \
  	      /* This also didn't work.  We give up since we cannot	      \
		 make sure the library can actually work.  */		      \
	      FATAL ("FATAL: cannot determine library version\n");	      \
	    __close (fd);						      \
	    buf[MIN (reslen, (ssize_t) sizeof (bufmem) - 1)] = '\0';	      \
	  }								      \

Either the comments are grossly misleading or the error message should be
"FATAL: cannot determine kernel version" instead.

Also it seems to not be a l6able string.

Cheers,
Bill.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pari 2.4.22-skas #1 SMP jeu déc 11 15:01:26 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=français, LC_CTYPE=français

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl

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