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- From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won)
- Subject: Re: Progress report?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.010643.25255@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University
- References: <1992Sep7.142246.22137@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Sep7.163715.8229@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Sep7.173250.14016@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:06:43 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Sep7.173250.14016@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep7.163715.8229@fwi.uva.nl> vesseur@fwi.uva.nl (Joep Vesseur) writes:
- >>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >>
- >>>Get 0.97.pl4 - it seems to be stable (knock wood: I haven't gotten any
- >>>reports on it yet),
- >>
- >>c'mone linus, give us a break: it's out for only 2hrs 40mins :-)
- >
- >"ONLY" 2hrs 40mins? WHAT? How much time do you want to thoroughly test
- >out a new version? Lazy bums (*)
- >
- >Actually, the pl4 changes are small enough that I hope there are no new
- >bugs hiding in there, so pl4 should be as stable as pl3 - with the added
- >advantage of not having the truncate bug. And I haven't gotten any bad
- >reactions to pl3 yet. On the other hand, I guess most people haven't
- >had time to upgrade even that far...
- >
- >Even the pl3 patches, while big, were pretty simple: mostly cleanups and
- >some relatively straightforward swapping changes. While bugs are always
- >possible, the pl3/4 changes aren't of the type that keeps me awake
- >nights wondering if they will work, and are likely to work without major
- >problems (famous last words...)
- >
- > Linus
- >
- >(*) No, I'm not serious. Lack of smilies doesn't /always/ mean I'm dead
- >serious. Although some problems (especially HD-driver-related) have in
- >fact been corrected with the help of beta-testers that were ready to
- >test out several new versions/day. Unsung heroes, and all that...
-
- Hi.
-
- I am certainly very much up to date with Linux as I downloaded the 4th
- patch last night and compiled it through. Hopefully from now on, I won't have
- these annoying corruptions of the file system. As I found out, my X libs were
- corrupted and also xman etc...they seem to work okay until that crucial moment.
- (which is whenever it feels like).
- I am just wondering what buffer corruption is. It seems to be the cause
- of most of my recent probs(afterr I upgraded to patch2). Can any kind soul
- explain this poor comp sci student what buffer corruption is exactly??
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
-
- Jae
-
-