Re: broken flock() in linux 1.3.95 (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:32:00 +0100 (BST)


> I fixed all this by upgrading to libc 5.3.9, then downgrading to 5.2.18
> when I heard that there was a security hole in 5.3.9 (where can I find
> out more about this?). After moving the libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 links

On the linux security list or the linux-gcc list. It is a very real bug and
libc 5.3.x from my testing (the dump it on watch it all died restore previous
variety) than analysis Im wary of using it.

Alan