Re: how to get an elf system from the 2.0.35 redhat installation?

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Paul Koning writes:
> There was a discussion on this list only a week or two ago about a bug 
> in the glibc password handling functions -- caused by an invalid
> assumption about alignment of data elements in structures.  Solution
> was to mark the structure in question "packed".  A scan of the
> archives should turn it up soon enough...

Ok, this really starts to worry me...

Why would something that reads a textual file require it's structure to
be packed?  I don't get this.

Ok, so adding the stuff to make the structure packed fixed the problem,
but I think someone ought to fix it the 'right way' and find out why
this structure needs to be packed when it shouldn't need to be.
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