xvendor - glibc CLK_TCK issue (was: "going public")

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:37:57 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: glibc CLK_TCK issue (was: "going public")

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:06:09AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> As was previously stated, this is a cross-vendor discussion list for
> things that affect all distros; Solar used a glibc bug as an example
> before.  Not necessarily security-related, but affects most of us.

Just to nitpick: it was not a bug, but a deliberate change - CLK_TCK
finally got dropped as obsolete.  The bug was in how package maintainers
approached fixing their packages to compile and work without CLK_TCK:

	http://www.openwall.com/lists/xvendor/2006/04/17/1

Alexander

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