[Dovecot] fallocate and glibc 2.10

Karsten Bräckelmann guenther at rudersport.de
Mon Oct 25 02:34:04 EEST 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 18:02 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Don't know about Ubuntu but Fedora 11 is already EOL'ed so there's no
> > need to fix it for that. Didn't realise that glibc 2.10 was that rare.
> 
> How old is glibc 2.10?
> 
> I thought Debian Lenny (which I use) was old.  It's approaching two
> years since release.  It currently has glibc 2.7, which was apparently
> released in 2007, 3 years ago.  This would lead me to belive that glibc
> 2.10 is _very_ old.  I'm not very familiar with glibc.  Maybe age
> doesn't matter?

It's a version number, generally major.minor.micro. It's not a floating
point number.

7 < 10, and thus 2.7 is older than 2.10.


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0. at ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}



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