Re: Do not use stock RedHat 6.0 kernels with SMBFS!
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:21:19 +0200
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> The Windows 95 Bug Workaround forces "ON" some protocol
> hacks to work around bugs in Windows 95. The code for this hack
> is in the kernel even if this option is disabled. If the option
> is disabled, the bug workaround is "OFF" by default but can be
> enabled with a mount time option. If the Windows 95 Bug Workaround
> is enabled when the kernel is compiled, this code is forced "ON"
> with no way to disable it. This code is strictly for Windows 95
> shares and causes havoc with Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 98
> shares.
Then surely this option should be removed from the makefiles immediately.
Why does this option exist at all? (Apart from hysterical raisons, which
don't count.)
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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