glibc 0.x is more accurate.
> of work into it and there were a lot of differences to the original libc.
> One can say that he greatly improved the libc with lots of features and
> enhancements to take profit from the kernel's features. However, sometimes
> the development was done a little bit too fast and some things were
It was a quick dirty job. We needed something working fast then.
> supported in a non-portable or non-standard way. That's were some of the
> libc5->libc6(=GNU libc 2) migration problems come from. Some problems, of
> course, are because the glibc developers made decisions different from HJL
> ... (without any standard or portability issues).
> AFAIK, HJL now works on glibc2, knfsd, binutils and egcs and probably on a
> lot of other things, so he's still behind almost any program ...
>
I am doing what I can and what I find interesting to me.
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