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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Minix Problems
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 12:07:34 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <m0qK0kr-0001OcC@sdf.lonestar.org> from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jul 2, 94 03:48:00 am
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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.
-
- May I suggest that you patch a vanilla MiNT 1.10 using the third mega-patch
- (as I've heard a great deal about problems with mega-patch 4) as this
- contains all the addroottimeout stuff needed by MiNTnet.
-
- >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.
-
- Either get GCC 2.3.3 or 2.5.8, anything in between is terminally broken for
- the m68k architecture.
-
- Steve
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