bindresvport is another good case [LWN.net]

bindresvport is another good case

Posted May 25, 2009 14:00 UTC (Mon) by saffroy (subscriber, #43999)
In reply to: That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible by nevyn
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

And even dealing with Jakub does not save you from having sane suggested improvements blocked forever by Ulrich: in the following case, where the glibc implementation of bindresvport is shown to be causing serious problems in very legitimate use cases, and while other distros and OSes (eg. SuSE, FreeBSD, Solaris) offer better solutions, our respected maintainer prefers some kludgy workaround (ie. portreserve):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103401

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