Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:03 -0500
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, phst@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>   > That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
>   > know about.  We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
>   > succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.
> 
> It's true that problems like this can happen any day.  Not just with
> Glibc but with lots of libraries that Emacs uses.  But that has been
> the case for many years.  Are things getting worse in some way?

If frequent changes to glibc cause Emacs to crash, that is bad.  Emacs
should not have such a critical dependency on changes in the library,
and it shouldn't be that fragile.