From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: FIFO's Date: 30 Jun 1992 17:26:00 GMT
In article <1992Jun30.154421.20029@ucc.su.OZ.AU> chrisa@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (C. G. Albone) writes:
>Hello *
> What is the latest news on FIFO's? Will there be anything
>near ready for release soon?
I got the patches for named pipes from Paul Hargrove, and while I had
some problems with them (you don't want to know), they are now corrected
and seem to work well in my system. I edited them a bit while searching
for the bug, and I haven't really tested them extensively yet, but at
least they should be in the next release. Right now I'm wondering if I
should make a small patch3 that contains mainly that code and some other
minor fixes, or if I should do the alpha extended filesystem patches
first and try to have 0.96b.pl3 support 4TB fs's and long filenames. It
depends on how the ext-fs patches seem.
Assuming the extended filesystem poses no problems, next week should see
a patch that contains them. After that I'll do the DOS fs patches, and
then I'll probably relax a bit and let people work on the new file
systems to find the bugs. We'll see.
Linus