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From: toor@alice.net.ncu.edu.tw (Bourne-again Superuser)
Subject: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ?
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.031107.3815@sparc4.ncu.edu.tw>
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 03:11:07 GMT
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The Patchkit 0.2.3 exist 2 serious bugs :
1. It eat too much memory, I have tried to do the "buildworld.sh" in many
machines, but if the RAM is less than 16MB, the process will hang
forever, even block the system. I have tried it on 3 386 machine (-25,
-33) with 4 or 8 MB ram, no one survived. But if I add the RAM to
16MB, all successful!!!
because the the process hang in making the lib or nroff the man page.
I guess the compiler or nroff catch too much memory
2. the new /dev/MAKEFILE seems buggy, if old device exists, for example
com0, the new will be com00. And the minor numvber for VCONSOLE
start from com0, not com1, we should change if by mknod.
T.C.Chang