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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-08-10 15:54:54 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-08-10 15:54:54 +0000
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1998-08-10 15:49  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* include/dirent.h: Protect from double inclusion.

1998-08-09  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>

	* posix/glob.h: Add LFS support for glob and globfree.
	* posix/Versions [GLIBC_2.1]: Add glob64 and globfree64.
	* posix/Makefile (routines): Add glob64.
	* sysdeps/generic/glob64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/glob64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/glob64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/glob64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/generic/glob.c [_LIBC && glob] (__glob_pattern_p):
	Elide function.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/glob.c: Add glob64 as a weak alias
	for __new_glob.  Likewise for globfree64.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/glob.c: New file.

1998-08-09  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Remove
	-include flag from command.
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@@ -997,6 +997,21 @@ e.g. __ivaliduser).  If a program uses these interfaces, it's broken.  These
 internal interfaces might change between glibc releases or dropped
 completely.
 
+??	When using the db-2 library which comes with glibc is used in
+	the Perl db modules the testsuite is not passed.  This did not
+	happen with db-1, gdbm, or ndbm.
+
+{UD} You are using an outdated copy of the DB_File Perl module.  In fact db-2
+finally removed the handling of zero-sized keys which was one of the features
+tested by the old Perl testsuite and therefore you see an error.  But this
+never was documented and guaranteed, only broken programs used this feature.
+
+Consequently db-2 does not need to support this feature and instead signals
+an error which leads to easier debugging.  The DB_File module maintainer
+Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> acknowledged this change and fixed
+the testsuite so that if you use DB_File v1.60 or later you should not have
+any more problems with db-2.
+
 
 ? Miscellaneous