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+To: Linux-Activists@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU
+From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
+Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
+Subject: Second 0.95a alpha-patch, part 1/2
+Date: 4 Apr 92 14:42:10 GMT
+
+This is the promised patch to 0.95a, which hopefully corrects some of
+the problems encountered.  This is /not/ an offical new release: it's
+just a set of patches to get the same kernel I am currently running.
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- extended partitions should finally work correctly (this release also
+  contains code for the hd-ioctl call, needed for fdisk).  Code mostly
+  by hedrick.
+
+- I corrected my original ptrace-fix (writing a long word to another
+  process' data space could fail with my original patches)
+
+- 387-emulation bug with the instructions "fcom[p] %st(x)" which
+  resulted in bad results on non-387 machines with newer versions of
+  gcc.  The emulation is still ugly, but it seems to work.
+
+- the cooked mode deletion/linekill bugs should be fixed.
+
+- various error-returns were wrong: I correted some of them (thanks to
+  bruce evans who pointed them out).  The bad error-values resulted in
+  incorrect or spurious error-messages from 'rm' etc. 
+
+- various minor fixes (including some in the hd-driver: this might help
+  persons with unexpected-interrupt and/or timeout errors)
+
+Additionally this version contains VFS-code from entropy, and a
+readdir() system call needed for the VFS.  The latter was inspired by
+patches sent by Remy Card, who did it with a getdirents sys-call.  My
+version is slightly simpler, but is probably slower.  Things might yet
+change. 
+
+The installation has also changed slightly: the keyboard type and
+math-emulation are specified in the main Makefile.  That one also
+contains the -fcombine-regs flag needed for 1.40.  The other makefiles
+should no longer need editing. 
+
+I've also incorporated the ps095 kernel patches: to get the actual
+user-level stuff you still have to get the ps-distribution.  Printer
+ports /still/ aren't in there, but this time I positively /promise/ to
+put it in next week.  Really. 
+
+People who have been patching their kernel might have problems getting
+this patch to work: it was made against a clean 0.95a kernel.  I'll
+consider a patched-up kernel version 0.95c - and I'd appreciate if
+future patches to me would be sent against this version.  I'll still
+accept older patches, or course. 
+
+                Linus