On Tuesday 19 June 2007 14:58:15 Ewan Oughton wrote:
> Interesting reading, I wasn't even aware there was a fork... showing my
> age :)
>>> Ewan
>>>> Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
> DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet
>>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
>>> Having read about the libc5 fork of glibc in Rick Moen's "Fear of Forking"
> essay, I went looking for more info about this fork since it seems to have
> healed so well that no one ever talks about it anymore. It also seems
> strangely underdocumented for a 10 year old event in a community that
> values putting everything about everything online.
>>http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/history_of_g>libc_and_linux_libc
>> If anyone knows any other sources of info that I didn't reference, I'd be
> happy to hear about them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library
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