Re: Linux has a broken shutdown syscall!

Andy Dougherty (doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:51:50 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Do the 'uname' system call and look at the version number at runtime. Have 2
> > configuration variables which contain the shutdown states. If you detect
> > strncmp(utsname.release,"2.0",3)==0 then set it up for the munge, else
> > make it right. This can all just be an #ifdef to please the clean code guys.
>
> 2.0.34pre12 will fix this (it does already but Im still hacking on the two
> remaining bugs to very long life high stability kernels . It (and pre11b)
> also contain a lot of security fixes. So once 2.0.34 is out
>
> a) The bug is fixed
> b) Very few people should be running <2.0.34 once the first brave folk
> prove its a solid as we believe it will be

Good. Thanks for the quick turnaround with helpful and accurate advice.
It's always appreciated.

Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

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