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[Laurent Wandrebeck <low AT low.ath.cx>]

[big snip]
> 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?
> 
Don't you think /lib/libc.so.6 | egrep "(NPTL|Native\ POSIX\ Threads\
Library)" would be much cleaner ?
I don't think we should patch glibc for such a thing. It's up to sorcery
or spells to take care of it.
regards.
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