Re: Bug in minixfs

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> So my question: does anybody remember if the minixfs in KGMD is really
> patched with the patch provided in /usr/src/minixfs/? If it is, there's yet
> another bug in minixfs causing bus error...

Hm, rather sad :( But it may be not a bug, but just a 'forgotten'
limitation. When the minix.xfs was written, you could hardly find a 120 MB
hard disk, not to mention a partition, not to mention a file. Programs
written in 1990-1995 usually get upset on such objects, like very long
files. E.g. the PC-GEM 3.01 (latest, 1993) normally hangs if you try to
display a directory where a file is larger than 127 MB :)

This doesn't mean however it shouldn't be fixed.

Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
mail: draco@mi.com.pl
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/
http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/~draco/

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