Bug#858529: minimal update narrows to libc6.

2017-03-23 Thread Neil Spring
I took a clean jessie install in vagrant (bento/debian-8.7), then rather than update everything to stretch, I apt-get install’ed only libc6 from stretch. Same result: four lines before the upgrade, seven lines, duplicating the last three, after. Happy to share Vagrantfile and output, though I

Bug#858529: libc6: fgets repeats content after fork on stretch only

2017-03-22 Thread Neil Spring
Package: libc6 Version: 2.24-9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainers, I'm testing a programming exercise for students, and found failed tests that I believe are due to libc6. I retried the minimal test case on every machine I have access to, and found that only my two Debian Stretch machines

Bug#111767: syslog.h bug persists

2002-09-18 Thread Neil Spring
2.2.5-14.3 still has the sys/syslog.h SYSLOG_NAMES bug. it'd be great if someone can apply: - char*c_name; + const char *c_name; or report it upstream. I realize there are bigger problems to deal with; thanks for your hard work. -neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#62826: libc6-dev: ntohl causes warning with -Wtraditional -O2 (bits/byteswap.h)

2000-04-22 Thread Neil Spring
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.1.3-8 This is a tricky one. I think it's important, because without it, any code that uses ntohl gets silly warnings. When compiling the following code, using gcc -O2 -Wtraditional tester.c I get the following warning. The Warning: --- tester.c: In function