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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 197d5a6fba..bdab8de6e5 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -731,6 +731,18 @@ an installation of glibc that is configured with --prefix=/usr should help detect these situations. If the script reports problems, something is really screwed up. +?? When I use nscd the machine freezes. + +{UD} It is well known that you cannot use nscd with Linux 2.0.*. There +is functionality missing in the kernel and work-arounds are not suitable. +Beside this some parts of the kernel are too buggy when it comes to using +threads. + +So you have the possibilities to run Linux 2.0.* or update to a higher +version and start using nscd. + +Note that I have at this point no information about any other platform. + ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them ?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with |