Re: Some diffs for MiNT 1.12h3

[Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

> 
> 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...

No, but I guess we'll be able to look into this problem very soon.

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