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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 68f896e6a5..79440c6a29 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-01-02 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-05-28 Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ Version 2.2 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.2-5 which supports - threads. No changes should be necessary for user programs. The - integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley. + threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley. + + This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since + now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it + in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library |