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- From: gene@stark.uucp (Gene Stark)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Beware patch00061
- Date: 26 Jan 93 08:48:00
- Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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- In the new patchkit-0.2 just released, people should be aware that patch00061
- makes an incompatible change to the interface of functions having to do with
- select(2), including "selwakeup". The change is that (pid_t)'s, rather than
- (struct proc *)'s, are now required to identify the process to be awakened.
- Patch00061 makes the changes to all the code present in the base system, but
- anyone who is using other drivers that support select will have to apply
- appropriate changes. These drivers include Rick Macklem's 386 bus mouse
- driver and my "tw" X-10 driver. Chris Demetriou's "com-beta" driver already
- uses the new interface, so if you are trying to get it to work without having
- applied patch00061 you should give it up and get the patchkit.
-
- In the next two postings, I include patches for Rick Macklem's busmouse
- driver, and for my X-10 driver.
-
- - Gene Stark
-