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To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:36:19 -0800
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>David Greenman writes:
>> >We have a problem with two 2.1.0-RELEASE machines.  One is a P5-100 with 
>>
>>    If it is possible, please upgrade to 2.1-stable. -stable contains code
>> to detect stack overflows and panic more gracefully. It also has several
>> important bugfixes which may or may not help your specific problem.
>
>Is there anything stopping us from creating a patch from 2.1R to
>2.1-stable as of today?   It certainly would make it easier for a lot of
>folks to get the new code, and also improve our public relations.

   There is nothing stopping us from doing that, but such a patch would change
daily and I don't think we should be in the business of maintaining it when
SUP is available for this purpose.

>This leads me to this question.  Is there anyway of getting the 2.1R
>bits from CVS?  We're using the release tag for follow on code, so can
>we get back to the actual code used in the release?  (I suppose we could
>specify a date, but I'm not sure what exact date the tree was burned
>from.)

   RELENG_2_1_0_RELEASE

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project