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- From: rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Current Amiga Unix release
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:11:10 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- References: <370@mbunix.adsp.sub.org> <1992Nov15.230902.2368@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.230902.2368@news.acns.nwu.edu> skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta) writes:
- =mario@mbunix.adsp.sub.org (Mario Bayer) writes:
- => Older versions are... AmigaUNIX v2.03, v2.02, v2.beta5... & v1.1... but
- => I think that these version you can`t buy, would you? :-)
- =
- =Actually, 2.03 is the last version that I trust... (Some of you may
- =know why. :-)
- =
- Ya, but you probably have access to source so you can FIX the
- lack/(wrong level) of spl()'s around buffer manipulation routines in
- the 2.03 and earlier kernels... For others, getting 2.1 is the only
- way to prevent this nasty bug...
-
- =Be sure to apply Keith's latest serial driver fixes, recently
- =posted here.
- =
- What EXACTLY did the code fix? I see that he removed register
- variables, probably due to braindeath in the 1.40 compiler, and
- added an extra parameter to a function call. I assume this extra
- parameter is the important fix?
-
- -Rob
-