librt.so TLS issues

[Barry K. Nathan]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:07:07PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> There was a change in glibc somewhere between 2.3.2-57 and 2.3.2-66 that
> adds /usr/lib/librt.so.1 to glibc-devel. The file is just a symlink to
> librt.so. This change seems wrong to me, and its causing breakage with
> TLS.
[snip]
> Having the soname librt in /usr/lib just seems wrong to me. What was the
> reason for introducing it?

Another question: Was the link introduced intentionally?

I've noticed that if I rm the link, it's recreated the next time I run
/sbin/ldconfig.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>