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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 13:48:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        coredump@nervosa.com (invalid opcode)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: List of open Problem Reports
Message-ID:  <199605121148.NAA06979@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960512013953.20166B-100000@onyx.nervosa.com> from invalid opcode at "May 12, 96 02:07:17 am"

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As invalid opcode wrote:

> > [1995/01/30] bin/198       1.1.5.1 pine binary loops; top shows fancy values

> I'm sure we can assume this is fixed, as I'm running pine now.

You run a 1.1.5.1 binary?

> > [1995/05/13] misc/403      FreeBSD 1-compiled tcsh, bash and zsh binaries dump 
> 
> I'm sure this is fixed now.

Again, a 1.1.5.1 binary?

(Though i'm also in favor of ``timing out'' these PR's some day.)

> > [1995/06/17] kern/528      slow 386 reports excessive interrupt-level buffer ov
> 
> Isn't this natural for a slow 386?

No.  I can run a sio at 115 kbps on a 386/16 with almost zero of these
messages.  (But quite possible that the problem has either been fixed,
or the PR refers to some other circumstances why this happened.)

> > [1995/08/07] bin/661       Hercules is not capable of having a ISO-Latin1 Scree
> 
> Is this a freebsd-bug?

Yes.  The console driver should remap the character table (as good as
possible), and this should be documented in a way so it can easily be
found (e.g. comments in /etc/sysinstall).  I think it's the latter
that's still missing.

> > [1995/08/15] i386/692      My modem is not found if my external cache is disabl
> 
> Is this a freebsd-bug or just a faulty computer?

The internal modem with emulated UART saga.  Bruce made the probe more
benign i think, so the PR should be verified again by the submitter.

> > [1995/09/23] docs/735      missing description for mount options in fstab(5) ma
> 
> I believe this are documented in mount(8).

No.  The long options are deprecated, but still working.  We should
either document them (and mark as obsolete), or disable.

> > [1995/10/03] kern/765      umount -f can`t umount a NFS filesystem in use
> 
> This is a known bogon of NFS, not umount.

No.  umount -f is supposed to ``forcibly'' unmount, so it should not
hang but revoke the underlying objects.

> > [1995/11/27] bin/841       stale nfs mounts cannot be umounted
> 
> This is a known bogon of NFS, not freebsd.

No, unmounting should always be possible (the term `mount' always
refers to a local machine).  One must be able to get rid of a stale
mount, since it's often impossible to ``un-stale'' it again.

> > [1996/01/25] kern/971      Default limits for number of processes per user ridi
> 
> Opinion, and most likely fixed.

No.  The default maxproc limit should be dynamic, dependent on the
size of the machine/system.  The current fixed value of 40 is too high
for a 386/16 (you could still trash this machine with the fork trap),
but too low for somebody with 32 MB RAM and a decent X11 workstation.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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