From: ian Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:01:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ X-Git-Tag: debian_version_1_2_0~12 X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=authbind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0765c90cf3de5e569f6961b02dcd6cec582a1784 @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ * Do not Build-Depends: libc6-dev (it's build-essential). * manpage: fix subtle error in description of interaction between set-id and LD_PRELOAD. Closes #36890. - + * Say in manpage that we may not work properly with multithreaded + programs. See also Bug#186439. + -- authbind (1.1.5.3) unstable; urgency=low --- diff --git a/authbind.1 b/authbind.1 index c551f77..2b372ea 100644 --- a/authbind.1 +++ b/authbind.1 @@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ makes an installation specific to a particular C library. This version is for GNU/Linux libc6 (glibc2). .PP +.B authbind +may not operate correctly with multithreaded programs. It is +inherently very difficult (if not impossible) to perform the kind of +trickery that authbind does while preventing all undesirable +interactions between authbind's activities and those of (say) a +threading runtime system. +.PP It is quite possible that .B authbind and other programs and facilities which use diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 47a9571..2d0d3cd 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ authbind (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low * Do not Build-Depends: libc6-dev (it's build-essential). * manpage: fix subtle error in description of interaction between set-id and LD_PRELOAD. Closes #36890. - + * Say in manpage that we may not work properly with multithreaded + programs. See also Bug#186439. + -- authbind (1.1.5.3) unstable; urgency=low