Bug#413450: libc6: svc_getreqset doesn't work on 64bit hosts

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Version: 2.5-0exp6

Neil Brown a écrit :
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> On 64bit machines, svc_getreqset ignores filedescriptors 32-63 and others.
> This has been fixed in glibc 2.4 but needs to be
> fixed in 2.3.6.debian while we keep using it. 
> The consequence of this bug is that if mountd (or any other rpc server) 
> gets 26 or more concurrent tcp connections, it goes into a spin constantly 
> using CPU, and not servicing requests on those connections.
> 
> Following patch fixes it.
> 

Thanks, the patch has been added to our SVN, but it probably won't be
fixed until the release of Debian 4.0r1.

I am closing the bug with the version from experimental, which has the fix.

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