Re: Kernel related StarOffice 5.1a problem

Juergen Kreileder (kreilede@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
10 Nov 1999 03:02:29 +0100


>>>>> Alan Cox writes:

>> I agree the old semantic is not nice. But it had none
>> underlying problem and there was software depending on
>> it. After all /proc is special anyway and I believe there's no
>> standard enforcing rules on it ;).

Alan> We broke kppp with a security fix. Fixing readlink() broke a
Alan> buggy glibc version. Fixing file opening broke a buggy java
Alan> tool. It isnt like there are no other java engines. Whoever
Alan> built the buggy jdk needs to build an unbuggy one. Someone
Alan> at blackdown.org needs to type make.

I've fixed the problem several weeks ago, the new JDK will be released
in a couple of days.

Juergen

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

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