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From: opjnw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams)
Subject: Re: my bug list
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In article <1mpdb0INNo8a@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <1993Feb27.235240.7476@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>>They do things that Berkeley Unix avoids.
>
>Since all commercial unices, as well as Linux, manage to work around this,
>the thing that they do, that Berkeley Unix avoids, must be "working
>correctly."

No arguement here.  I'm not familiar enough with what goes on in the probing
and shutdown routines, but I'm sure Bill would welcome the fixes if someone
could figure out how to do it portably.

Sean?  It would be a great thing since you're switching to BSD. :-)


Nate
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nate@cs.montana.edu          |  these 'computer' things.  Personally,
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home #: (406) 586-0579       |                            Don Hammerstrom