ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (06/17/89)
This note is directed to anyone who has picked up the ISISV12
release... we spent the week fixing a variety of minor problems
and ended up rebuilding the TAR tape. To summarize:
V12 wouldn't build under the most recent MACH release. We think
it now does.
We found a typo, introduced a few weeks ago, that breaks virtual
synchrony in the grid demo under vigorous tests. This is now fixed.
We also corrected a tendency to shut ISIS sites down a bit too
quickly when they act unresponsive.
We added a new feature to the isis.rc file:
1) Comments (start line with ";;" as in common-lisp)
2) '#' in -d option to protos:
-d/usr/spool/isis/#.logdir
this is changed to the site-no at runtime and asks
that the log manager, etc. create files in a place
like /usr/spool/isis/4.logdir
You use this to run multiple sites from one directory --
previously the rmgr and lmgr would die if you did this.
You would still chdir to /usr/spool/isis, but this could
now be a remote NFS, for example.
Hope nobody ran into any other problems... my sense is that the V12
release is pretty solid. Let me know if you know otherwise...
Ken Birman