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- From: torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: linux version 0.99 patchlevel 4
- Keywords: Linux kernel 0.99pl4 bugfixes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211230.3774@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:12:30 GMT
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 40
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
-
- As you can see, I'm back to the old "once or twice a week" kernel
- version cycle. The reason is the existence of some silly bugs in pl3
- that don't always show up, but can lock up your machine or result in
- other weird errors (parse errors in gcc etc). It depends on your
- hardware setup - specifically what kinds of interrupts your motherboard
- sends, so I (and many others) actually never saw it.
-
- 0.99pl4 is a small diff (1300 lines of diff - and it sounds more than it
- actually is), and contains only bug-fixes. The changes are:
-
- - include/asm/irq.h: fix the irq handling bug by adding a missing
- initialization of a segment register.
- - console redirection bug fixed
- - Makefile fixes
- - support for more than 64 tasks - it was there before, but the GDT
- overflowed with NR_TASKS more than about 120..
- - ptrace() - the bogus ESRCH bug is corrected (fix by Branko Lankester?
- Hope I haven't messed up the attributions *again*).
- - flock() support by adding two new ioctl() values - hlu.
- - seagate.c patches (Eric Youngdale) to fix the problem with some disks
- off the ST-0x controller.
- - tcp/ip volatile fixes (sorry - lost the attribution)
- - remount patches by almesber
-
- I'm getting happier about the kernel again - but I have got several
- comments on the line "I'll wait for 1.0", so I'm starting to think I
- won't get 0.99 debugged due to lack of tester interest. I guess I
- should have thrown out 1.0 totally unexpectedly instead of warning about
- it. I can only repeat my plea for people trying it out: if you don't
- try it out (or don't report problems to me), you may find that 1.0 won't
- work for you... Also, if you find that pl4 doesn't fix a bug that you
- already reported, please take the time to report it again by mailing me.
- Otherwise I'll probably assume that I found them all.
-
- And, in case you can't remember, pl4 is naturally available both as full
- source and diffs against pl3 at nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus,
- and will also probably show up at the other major sites within a day or
- two.
-
- Linus
-