bcn@cs.washington.edu (Clifford Neuman) (06/10/91)
Archive-name: ftp/research/prospero/1991-06-08 Archive: june.cs.washington.edu:/pub/prospero.tar.Z [128.95.1.4] Original-posting-by: bcn@cs.washington.edu (Clifford Neuman) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) An alpha release of version 4 of the Prospero file system is now available by anonymous FTP from cs.washington.edu in the file pub/prospero.tar.Z (352 blocks). It can also be obtained through Prospero itself from /releases/prospero/prospero.tar.Z Changes since the last major release include the following: . Support for access control lists on directories and on individual links within a directory. . Support for resolving multiple components of a name in a single query (reducing the number of messages required to resolve long names). . Support for Archie . Support for the Andrew File System . Support for shells other than the C shell. . The compatibility library is included. This means that applications linked with the library can use the open call to open existing files named through Prospero. The library will automatically select an appropriate access method if one is available. For reading, files available by anonymous FTP will be automatically retrieved and a file descriptor for the locally cached copy returned. . Various bug fixes and fixes for some machine dependencies I am calling this an Alpha release because the compatibility library has only been run on three machine types. The VAX, DEC MIPS machines, and Suns. Adding a new system type should only require writing a five line assembly language routine that makes a system call. Please feed back any changes. I would like to thank the following people for bug fixes and for porting Prospero to other machine types (and feeding back the changes): John Curran NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) Case Larsen Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Rainer Orth University of Cologne, Germany As usual, please report bugs to bug-prospero@cs.washington.edu. ~ Cliff -- comp.archives file verification june.cs.washington.edu -rw-r--r-- 2 835 731 344755 Jun 9 12:39 /pub/prospero.tar.Z found prospero ok june.cs.washington.edu:/pub/prospero.tar.Z