Bug#292673: additional info

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

While there hasn't been any discussion for glibc bugzilla report #685
[1], private communication with one of the glibc maintainers indicates
that this issue is not considered to be a glibc bug because,
officially, glibc supports only one thread library at a time:
LinuxThreads _or_ NPTL, but not both at the same time.  Of course,
every distro I know of ships both NPTL and LinuxThreads and the
apparently accepted workaround appears to be to use the ld.so that was
built for NPTL rather than the one that was built for LinuxThreads
(more precisely, the ld.so should be used which uses larger thread
descriptors).  Thus, I strongly suspect Debian should do the same.
Since this bug results in memory corruption that can be very hard to
track down, I hope this can be fixed quickly.  As a temporary
workaround, just doing:

	# mv /lib/tls/ld-2.3.2.so /lib/

should cure the problem.

Thanks,

	--david

[1] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=685