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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 14, 2010 23:08 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by promotion-account
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

Yes, exactly. But at worst you should stuff the nonportability into a library with an API which can be replicated on other platforms (or make that library as portable as possible, and keep it a separate library to keep the ugly away from everyone else.)

(btw, your account name is... *interesting*.)


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Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 15, 2010 1:37 UTC (Mon) by promotion-account (guest, #70778) [Link]

(btw, your account name is... *interesting*.)

That's descriptive anonymity :)

Readers usually give higher weight to subscribers opinions here, so this handle honestly states that I'm a promoted guest.

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 15, 2010 10:39 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah. I interpreted it as 'account bought to promote something else', and got confused because most advertisers would try to lie about it and *not* mention their affiliations :)

'Promotion' is a word with many meanings...

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