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> The new libc is incompatible with some old applications, but I'm not
> too sure why.  The lock was added at the end of FILE...

The size of FILE changed, thus the old application and the new library
no longer agree about the values for stdout and stderr:

	#define stdin   (&__sF[0])
	#define stdout  (&__sF[1])
	#define stderr  (&__sF[2])

- Tor Egge


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