Roland McGrath wrote in http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-03/msg00122.html I added a couple of things to glibc-2.4, which is now available and will be seen on new systems like Fedora Core 5 next week. It is very likely that users will start complaining soon if we are still shipping glibc 2.3.6 in etch. Is there any reason not to switch to 2.4? Denis