Re: Kernel related StarOffice 5.1a problem

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:31:21 +0000 (GMT)

> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> >[..] Both readlink() and open()
>
> I don't understand why readlink was broken. Maybe you meant getdents(2)
> reporting one thing and open(2) allowing also something more.

The readlink() was an older bug we fixed about 2.2.5. We accidentally nul
terminated the name of a link in procfs and fixing that broke a buggy glibc

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