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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 83aed60e19..7fb167e650 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe. +* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create + or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a + program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will + define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will + always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check + the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in + <sys/single_threaded.h> instead. + * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored, regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of |