From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won) Subject: Re: Progress report? Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:06:43 GMT
In article <1992Sep7.173250.14016@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.163715.8229@fwi.uva.nl> vesseur@fwi.uva.nl (Joep Vesseur) writes:
>>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>>
>>>Get 0.97.pl4 - it seems to be stable (knock wood: I haven't gotten any
>>>reports on it yet),
>>
>>c'mone linus, give us a break: it's out for only 2hrs 40mins :-)
>
>"ONLY" 2hrs 40mins? WHAT? How much time do you want to thoroughly test
>out a new version? Lazy bums (*)
>
>Actually, the pl4 changes are small enough that I hope there are no new
>bugs hiding in there, so pl4 should be as stable as pl3 - with the added
>advantage of not having the truncate bug. And I haven't gotten any bad
>reactions to pl3 yet. On the other hand, I guess most people haven't
>had time to upgrade even that far...
>
>Even the pl3 patches, while big, were pretty simple: mostly cleanups and
>some relatively straightforward swapping changes. While bugs are always
>possible, the pl3/4 changes aren't of the type that keeps me awake
>nights wondering if they will work, and are likely to work without major
>problems (famous last words...)
>
> Linus
>
>(*) No, I'm not serious. Lack of smilies doesn't /always/ mean I'm dead
>serious. Although some problems (especially HD-driver-related) have in
>fact been corrected with the help of beta-testers that were ready to
>test out several new versions/day. Unsung heroes, and all that...
Hi.
I am certainly very much up to date with Linux as I downloaded the 4th
patch last night and compiled it through. Hopefully from now on, I won't have
these annoying corruptions of the file system. As I found out, my X libs were
corrupted and also xman etc...they seem to work okay until that crucial moment.
(which is whenever it feels like).
I am just wondering what buffer corruption is. It seems to be the cause
of most of my recent probs(afterr I upgraded to patch2). Can any kind soul
explain this poor comp sci student what buffer corruption is exactly??
Thanks in advance.
Jae