I applied the patch. But not the LinuxThreads part. In fact, once I have the time (probably the week after next) LT will be removed from the trunk of the CVS archive. This has *loooong* been announced. We cannot carry forward that crappy code forever. And the 2.4 release is the time to make the break. Programs will know when they cannot run with LT if they reference symbols with version GLIBC_2.4. The code base still exists on the 2.3 branch so there is always the possibility to a) use 2.3 outright, since Roland still backports patches and b) people can build a separate glibc with its own ld.so for desperate LT users. At the same time I'll likely remove the non-TLS support. That's a wakeup call for the Hurd people: get moving with implementing the support. It's been now almost 3 years. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖