Bug#292673: additional info

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:05:51 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:17:44PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ISTR that Red Hat has a patch for this in their glibc RPMs already.

OK, I pulled the Jakub's patch and built it.  I put it at:

  http://www.gotom.jp/~gotom/debian/glibc/2.3.2.ds1-21_ia64.linuxthreads

David, could you test this glibc on your ia64 environment with (ex)
evolution?

Regards,
-- gotom