From: lmulcahy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Larry Mulcahy) Subject: SLS 0.98pl1-37 release Date: 21 Nov 1992 13:17:41 GMT
I downloaded the SLS version of Linux 0.98pl1-37 from tsx-11.mit.edu on
November 14. I love it! Sadly, there are a few minor imperfections:
(1) `mkfs /dev/hd__ nnnnn' accepts values of nnnnn greater than the
partition size. Wonder what would happen if there was something on the
next partition on the disk?
(2) There are several cases of protection bits set too restrictively. I
did `chmod a+r *' in /usr/local/emacs/etc, /usr/man/cat1,
/usr/include/linux. Also the directory /usr/man/cat1 itself needed the
same treatment.
(3) Less(1) looks for a help file less.hlp in the nonexistent directory
/usr/local/bin. I created /usr/local/bin and made a symbolic link to
/usr/lib/less.hlp.
(4) Curses.h has the following sequence:
#undefine HZ
#define HZ HZ
The second line causes a GCC preprocessor error. I got my curses
application to compile by removing that second line.
(5) The `add a new user' command in the sysadmin menu isn't quite right.
It reverses the user and group numbers in /etc/passwd.
(6) There doesn't seem to be a mkfile command. How do you make a file
suitable for swapping?