glibc.rpm The patch to fix a gettext race in the previous glibc maintenance update might cause random applications to hang in futex() calls indefinitely. Since the original race condition was not very serious, this update simply reverts the original buggy patch and restores the previous behaviour. glibc-devel.rpm The patch to fix a gettext race in the previous glibc maintenance update might cause random applications to hang in futex() calls indefinitely. Since the original race condition was not very serious, this update simply reverts the original buggy patch and restores the previous behaviour.