@@ -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 c551f773a89fcdc69b565c9121b7ec73f2488cad..2b372eaf08396cf2c5bc5e6af200e35e88999404 100644 (file)
--- 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 47a9571982ba6dd642995b570695a6223256ac9b..2d0d3cd6a5a5e9b999772b01315f54bf7c32bb55 100644 (file)
--- 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