glibc and RedHat 8.0

[Net Llama!]

I can't say that i'm overly surprised.  Redhat's .0 releases have always 
been notoriously buggy & unstable.

Tim Wunder wrote:
> OK, so RedHat has done with glibc in 8.0 essentially what they did with gcc in 
> 7.0. That is, taken a chunk of the development version and making a RedHat 
> release of it.
> 
>>From the release notes:
>      o The GNU C Library (glibc) has been updated to version 2.3 code base
>        and includes the following major improvements and features over
>        previous releases:
> 
>        . new locale model
> 
>        . performance tuned malloc
> 
>        . locale archives
> 
>        . rewritten standard conformant regex for performance increase
> 
>        . additional robustness in addressing multiple bugs
> 
> 
> Thanks Patrick, 
> Tim
> 
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:09 pm, patrick Kapturkiewicz wrote:
> 
>>Here are details :
>>http://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES
>>
>>Patrick
> 
> <snip>

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