overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) (12/27/89)
I ran into a few snags while applying the diffs for 1.5.0 to 1.3c. Here's a list. There were relatively few problems, considering that the shar files were about 3 megabytes. In fact, the shar files were only a few hundred KB smaller than the resulting source files (but without the origionals, the patches are useless!). I think there were four files in the entire system that were not touched (tests 15, 17, 18 and 19). Problem: fs/proto.h is > 0 and fs/putc.c doesn't exist Symptom: the empty file, proto.h, doesn't unshar right, so fs/putc.c is in proto.h. Solution: move proto.h to putc.c and delete the first few lines that have shell commands in them. Then 'touch proto.h' (it should be an empty file). Problem: test/t11a.cdif and t11b.cdif don't exist Symptom: there are binaries in the test_00 shar file, causing it to not unshar correctly. Solution: Hand edit the shar file. The cdifs ARE in there! Jove cut the file off prematurely, as did vi. I used Gnu Emacs since it will edit a binary without second thoughts. I did have a few other files that did not patch up correctly (22 files required some attention overall), but I suspect it was caused by not exactly matching 1.3 CRCs (I keep the sources in RCS files, which could have caused some of the problems). I now have a complete set of sources which match Andy's CRCs, except in tools/bootblok.s (it's REALLY close -- the character count is only off by a couple). The library, kernel, fs, mm and everything in tools compiled rather efortlessly. Don't forget to set the makefile variables to where you hide your cpp, lib, etc., and add a -T/usr/tmp (or whatever) to CFLAGS if your ram disk doesn't have much free space. Building a library will be a trick, since the 1.3 lorder and tsort don't really work right. Maybe I'll post the ordering I'm using later, after I've sucessfully compiled all the commands with it. The test cases looked like a blood bath: tests 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 : exited with "ok" test 3: no errors, but no ok, either. test 5: did nothing (it is supposed to fork. I could not see where that was ever done) test 9: printed "Hangup" and exited. test 10: says "ok", but I'm not sure that it was... (don't remember now what I thought was wrong). test 15: strncpy fails tests 6, 9, 13 test 17: too many errors spit out to list test 18: gives 17 errors test 19: goes into an infinite loop, and does not appear to fork like it should. test 20: POSIX calls fail miserably, leaving you with some funny files that are linked together and such. Even when test16 passes, test20 fails. Also, unlink will NOT unlink a file unless you can write the file -- being able to write the directory is not good enough. Now... to fix these problems. -- Glen Overby <overby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax, overby@plains (Bitnet)
cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (12/28/89)
Reference Glenn Overby's recent note on snags in Minix, the file fs/proto.h
should become fs/type.h, and the file mm/proto.h mm/putc.cdif. The file
kernel/proto.h is at the end of the posting, and so had no successor to mung.
Astonishing Good Luck, Sir, and remember us as: The Filthistan Trio!
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INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.comkjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN) (02/11/90)
I am just getting started, and I don't yet have anything. I understand P-H has 1.3.0, and that 1.5.0 is now out. How long will it take until P-H has version 1.5.0? Will there be any price increase? "Before Abraham was born, Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN I AM!" Jesus of Nazareth 1709 S. Bonnie Brae St., LA, CA 90006 Internet: kjh@usc.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (02/13/90)
In article <22825@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN) writes: >I am just getting started, and I don't yet have anything. I understand >P-H has 1.3.0, and that 1.5.0 is now out. How long will it take until >P-H has version 1.5.0? Will there be any price increase? It will be months for 1.5. Also, the only version will probably be the IBM slipcase version, which is currently $116. We are going from 10 disks to 17, and P-H wants me to include the entire current listing in it (400+ pages), so some price increase is inevitable. If you want it cheap, upgrade from the net. It's hard to beat the price. P-H will offer a discount for people who trade in their boot diskette or the label from the boot diskette's jacket. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)