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- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 94 03:48 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: Minix Problems
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- It seems that Minix can't sync() properly sometimes. I think it may have
- something to do with programs that eat CPU time polling, preventing Minix
- from getting an update. Then again, It may have nothing to do with it.
- Basically, addroottimeout still seems to be buggy. I'm NOT running the
- net pacthes, but I still get problems.
-
- Basically, I was gonna fix the cookie-jar routines that i was working on
- when I last got a Minix crash, and it happened again (I did not run the
- thing, and compiling code can't break anything, only running it can).
- It could be that I am using GCC 2.4.5 .. I think that is the same compiler
- I was using before. In any case, my Minix partition is permanently broke
- it would seem.
-
- I keep getting Zone Range Errors, Zone 0 has Count 1 or something, and fsck
- can't fix it (doesn't know anything was wrong). It seems like everything
- runs great until I actually want to get soemthing done, then it all breaks.
- Like Zmodem, I hardly ever need to use SZ, and SZ and RZ both SEEMED to work.
- But SZ needs flow control or something because after the first 8K it
- stopps and the reciever starts sending all sorts of stuff back at me, but
- SZ doesn't stop sending :-(
-
- As always, I'm back to a non-working back-up of my cookie-jar code and
- some notes. I wanted to finish it tonight. Now, I managed to do nothing
- but thrash my filesystem a bit.
-
- I can't get "init" to compile either. It redefined fd_set and has lots
- of integer/pointer comparison warnings - what's the filename of the newest
- version on a.a.u.e?
-
- Again, many thanks, I'm beginning to think I better get out of this list
- before I waste too much time.
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