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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:18:58PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 
> In my opinion the best solution to this is to reverse your change to the
> mysql spell and patch glibc to contain the string NPTL in that output.
> I'm just glad we didn't integrate that glibc into test yet, it'll break
> every spell that has to detect NPTL.
> The other solution would be to grep for the new string instead, fixing
> it in all spells. Though that would mean we would have to grep for both
> strings, as people don't necessarily have the latest glibc snapshot
> installed.
> Opinions, Suggestions?

We need to do both.  My reason is that other packages that we aren't 
actively maintaining may expect the new output string.  Patch glibc for 
now, make a routine to detect nptl as a proper grimoire function, and 
have the spells use that (so we can easily change the detection logic in 
the future).

Seth

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