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