>From: Simon Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> I have no idea: This looks like a result of a bug in the libc found on RH 7.3.
>>
>> I really hope that Linux will become a decently usable OS in the near future.
>> But without compatible libraries this looks impossible.
>There are many people using Linux in production environments today. It is
>certainly "decently usable".
It depends on what you like to do with Linux:
If you like to publish software with Linux everything works because you compile
it excatly on the same environment as you use it.
If you like to publish software for Linux you are out of luck because "Linux"
still is only a kernel and each distribution has it's own incompatibilities to
other distributions. If it seems to work, this does not nessecarily mean that it
works completely and correct. Just think of the nasty old incomatibility between
RedHat and SuSE with ctype.h There is no 100% binary compatibility with
differerent Linux distributions.
Even the LSB guys don't like to fix this problem! About a year ago, I pointed
out at the LSB mailing list that for a complete binary compatibiltiy it would
be nessecary to standarddize on system relevant user/group names and id's in
order to allow to NFS mount e.g. /usr/ from a different machine but nomody was
interested to do this :-(
>Now, no-one is going to say that there is any OS or non-trivial library
>that is completely free of bugs. Things just don't work that way.
I did not speak about bugs! I did speak about problems that prevent decent
usage. Unprovable binary incompatibility is one important problem...
>There are probably many more users on Linux than any of the *nix's, so a
>more positive attitude might be to figure out the faults and figure out
>how to work around them. I imagine that thousands of developers around the
>world are doing just that. Polemics about the state of Linux and the
>libraries used on Linux just don't solve any problems.
As I said: Your polemics does not help and thousands of developers do not help
if they don't understand the problem.
If you like to discuss this kind of problems, you are either open to a fruitful
discussion, or you look just like one of thousands if blind Linux followers.
Your statements do not let me assume that you are really open to even
understand the problems :-(
J�rg
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