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Re: Some diffs for MiNT 1.12h3
- To: mk@anuurn.do.open.de (Martin Koehling)
- Subject: Re: Some diffs for MiNT 1.12h3
- From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:32:15 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT Mailer)
- In-reply-to: <2f91ba4ed3ff0@anuurn.do.open.de> from "Martin Koehling" at Apr 17, 95 00:53:24 am
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
Hi!
I'm currently putting together mh-mint-1.12h4.
Martin Koehling wrote:
> Here are some small patches for MiNT 1.12h3 you might find useful.
Thanks!
> Summary of changes:
> [...]
> dosmem.c:
> BUGFIX (sort of:-)): added special case Pexec(0) handling for
> Gemini/Mupfel version 1.a - apparently, they don't call PwaitXXX()
> to remove dead background processes; nobody noticed this bug before
> because pre-1.12h3 MiNT versions removed *all* terminated children
> as soon as a non-blocking Pexec() call was made...
> This hack does the latter only for processes named GEMINI or MUPFEL;
> it should certainly be removed as soon as the next Gemini version
> is released!
Has a new Gemini release which fixes that bug already been released?
I'd prefer not to include this kludge in the release...
Michael
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