XFS_SHARED_LIBS

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <38C57A23.DC500821 at bnl.gov>, Dave Morrison writes:
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| It doesn't seem to be needed.  It was an early glibc issue, right?  At
| any rate, `pwd' in an AFS directory seems to work fine on my RH6.1 box,
| and I remember clearly how it used to fail on a vanilla RH5.2 system
| (though it worked OK if one installed libgetcwd.so).
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It was a glibc2.0 + kernel 2.2 issue.  glibc2.1 already uses the kernel 
getcwd syscall, so the shlib isn't needed.  It also wasn't needed with 2.0 
kernels, because those didn't have the dentry issue that made kernel getcwd 
necessary.

(And the problem with getcwd.so was that it relied on a glibc2.x-specific 
trick, so programs using libc5 blew up badly and there was no clean way to 
fix them.)

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