glibc 2.14-4 eats my data (Re: F15 ext3, eCryptfs + samba = data corruption (Re: F15 "Error mounting eCryptfs: [-5] Input/output error" on different disks))

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 17:14:28 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:12:04PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
> So it does appear to be related to the memcpy change in libc.

So eCryptfs is buggy, just fix it.
The compatibility stuff that has been added to glibc to workaround
buggy old programs was just for programs linked against old glibc.
If you compile it again and you want it still working, fix it.
It isn't that hard.

	Jakub


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