How bad is the linux bug, was (Fwd) arla 0.34.2

[Magnus Ahltorp]

> My question to you guys is, how bad is the linux bug? Should I try
> to install arla 0.34.2 on my linux machines? They seem to be happy
> campers runing 0.33.1. (I have one machine running 0.34.1 with a
> hacked roken library...)

The linux bug fixed between 0.34.1 and 0.34.2 is a directory
consistency bug. Under certain circumstances, the directory is not
invalidated correctly. It is not very serious, but it can be annoying,
since files may appear when they are not there, and the other way
around.

Also, some linux 2.4 fixes have been done between 0.33.1 and 0.34.2.

> Another note, regarding the hacked roken library. I'm runing
> pinstripe, the beta release of redhat 7.0. It looks like the
> red hat folk are pushing forward (yet again) with glibc 2.2.
> With this, va_args has been changed. Love tells me he has fixed
> this in the latest CVS checked in version of roken, which it
> is. (I've tested it.) But when I complie 0.34.2, I still get the
> same compilation errors due to the va_args change to glibc 2.2.
> I take it you guys are going to release arla sometime with the
> new roken library? Any comments on this?

Yes, the next real release will contain the new version of roken, but
we only wanted to insert small bugfixes in this bug fix release, not
big changes.

/Magnus