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There's also a rare chance that a program is statically linked, in which case upgrading glibc won't help, the program would need to be recompiled.
by gtrubetskoy 12y ago
There's also a rare chance that a program is statically linked, in which case upgrading glibc won't help, the program would need to be recompiled.
- JshWright 12y agoYeah, that's a good point, and definitely worth mentioning, but obviously rebooting isn't going to help in that case either. The parent was asking about how they would know if they need to reboot or not.
- aidenn0 12y agoIt is nearly impossible to statically link glibc.
- cnvogel 12y ago... with nss-modules being a major culprit, ironically... (on which gethostbyname relies greatly)...