Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 18 14:16:38 UTC 2010
Andrew Haley (aph at redhat.com) said:
> > and, most importantly, because it is NOT our job to work around bugs
> > in proprietary software!
>
> How is any of that a reason not to patch glibc?
>
> Upside of patching: happy users.
> Downside: nothing.
Downside: cranky libc maintainers
While possibly sometimes hard to distinguish from the default state, I'm
guessing that the chance of getting glibc upstream to change their behavior
for a closed-source app that broke semantics defined in K&R is nil, and they're
going to be pretty annoyed if we slam that in on top of them.
Bill
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