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My favourite glibc annoyanceMy favourite glibc annoyancePosted Mar 29, 2012 13:08 UTC (Thu) by saffroy (subscriber, #43999)Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc
Aaaah, at last some hope of bringing good fixes to silly problems.
A few years ago, my biggest gripe was that glibc and RedHat-based systems would not allow an admin to tune the behaviour of bindresvport in the glibc, thus forcing users to use ugly (and IIRC insufficient) hacks such as portreserve. Some sane distributors patched their glibc properly (implementing a configurable blacklist for bindresvport), but they were never allowed to upstream their changes, and users of RH and its derivatives distros are still punished.
I'm sure many others have their own war stories...
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My favourite glibc annoyance Posted Mar 31, 2012 21:55 UTC (Sat) by lacos (subscriber, #70616) [Link] and users of RH and its derivatives distros are still punished I don't think so, see ip_local_reserved_ports; it's in RHEL-6 and upstream keeps polishing it.
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