Re: A module bug in 2.2.1?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 Feb 1999 19:27:21 GMT


Followup to: <r2btjat44f.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>
By author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
>
> > I think it is important that modutils not be dependent on glibc2,
> > because the legal problems with glibc2/libio may force Yggdrasil to
> > switch back to libc5.
>
> You miss the point. They have a problem if the nscd is used. But the
> nscd comes with glibc 2.1. So there is no problem since not using
> wordexp is no problem with other library versions.
>

What is nscd?

-hpa

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