nanogui: ELKS v0.78 bugs fixed
Subject:
Re: ELKS v0.78 bugs fixed
From:
Alistair Riddoch ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jul 1999 10:17:13 -0000
Message-Id: <199907191010.LAA16601@penelope.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Greg Haerr writes:
>
> Al,
> After receiving ELKS v0.78, I compiled Microwindows and Nano-X for
> it and found we need one more kernel patch, and have several other items
> in elkscmd, some of which were missed. Overall, ELKS 0.78 is a great step
> forward for ELKS and MicroWindows.
>
> The following items are fixed in my ELKS 0.78 patch #1:
>
> ELKSCMD:
> login.c: set TERM=ansi, remove debug printf's
> etc/issue: change to 0.78
I got things a bit messed up in this release because I did things in the
wrong order. The etc/issue file is automatically generated from the elks
Makefile, but I had not updated it when I built the release. Releasing
elkscmd and elks at the same time is becoming more work than is easy to
deal with as elkscmd grows. I think it would be best to switch over to a
different release model. elkscmd updates can be released regularly with
date stamped version MAJOR.MINOR version release don't really have any
meaning for elkscmd as it contains so many packages. I can then release
the kernel on its own with its disk images much more easily.
> sash: fix to allow environment variables to be unset by specifying only
> the environment variable name, e.g.: "setenv TERM" will delete any TERM environment
> variable. BTW, this requires my putenv.c rewrite for the dev86 kit. putenv() was completely
> rewritten, to fix the fact that it basically doesn't work.
Quite alot of the libc stuff in dev86 is untested. The utent.c file in
elkscmd is just there as a fix until I submit the patch to the version in
dev86.
>
> ELKS:
> fix kernel exec code when chmem field is exactly 64K. This is required
> or the new nano-X won't run, it says "Out of memory"
>
I was aware of this bug, and it was in my todo list. Thanks for looking at
it.
Al
