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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: mint mega patch 4
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 11:26:23 +0200
-
- Hi there!
- |>
- |>> Last week I downloaded and applied all the mega patches collected by
- |>> Michael, but there is still the problem that the resulting mint
- |>> makes the multitos aes be very instable. (...)
- |>
- |> As I said before, it also has severe problems with memory protection,
- |>causing every second program to crash immediately, notably my login shell.
- |>
- Actually, I do not use memory protection at the moment. And its not a
- crash, it is just a hanging screen process, but that is also very bad :(
-
- |>> So what could it be? This does not happen with my older version which
- |>> is a fairly patched mint 1.10, but the applied patches are not very
- |>> recent.
- |>
- |> Since mh3 was quite ok and only mh4 crashes it must be either the 'fselect
- |>doesn't need spl7() anymore' patch, or the story with sticky text segments.
- |>Since I doubt it's the first one, I presume it's the second one. The thing
- |>I don't understand is that I understood it that way that all this is only
- |>enabled if an executable has the sticky bit set on execution. None of mine
- |>has is, but it crashed anyway. It's even more mysterious as not all programs
- |>crash, but I fail to recognize a rule in there.
- |>
- I had the same behavior with only mh1 applied, so it seems to be some older
- stuff causing my problem.
-
- Ciao
- Ulrich
-