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Re: Some diffs for MiNT 1.12h3



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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