Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:04:00 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My verdict on 2.2.7... Message-ID: <199807240804.JAA18634@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:16:09 PDT." <199807240216.TAA23499@implode.root.com>
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> >right now, and even starting to consider Linux, now that I know FreeBSD
> >isn't the rock-solid system they claim it is. This was the most carelessly
>
> I'm sorry, but I missed the items in your report that indicated any form
> of instability in the kernel. The closest thing I saw was a report that PPP
> was slow in some cases (which may or may not be a bug in the PPP code). Is
> there something you left out or that I missed regarding instability?
Unfortunately this report was bogus too. The ``enable dns'' thing
was a mis-merge from jkh (*slap*) but completely harmless.
The changes to ppp between 2.2.6 & 2.2.7:
BINMODE is 4554 not 4550 (normally cosmetic)
Ppp w/ M$CHAP appears in the des distribution (2.2.6 ERRATA.TXT)
u_long -> u_int32_t changes (cosmetic on i386)
int -> long changes (cosmetic on i386)
Added some comments (cosmetic)
Fixed the ``set ifaddr 0 0'' bug from 2.2.6 (bugfix)
Added some braces to quieten gcc 2.8.1 (cosmetic)
Removed unused includes (cosmetic)
Renamed a variable for -Wshadow (cosmetic)
Closed a forgotten file descriptor (bugfix)
Fixed the .Fl mess in the man page (cosmetic)
Fixed TCP/IP logging to avoid a SIGSEGV (bugfix)
Added `void' to a prototype for -Wmissing-declarations (cosmetic)
Changed OpenBSD tunnel_header (cosmetic)
Updated version to 1.7 (cosmetic)
As you can see, the bugfixes are all required, and none will affect
speed.
I have no intention of approaching the guy who did the original
posting - he's way to angry to help.... it pisses me off somewhat
that he moaned about ppp - I've avoided touching the 2.2 branch so
that it would finally be correct for 2.2.7 (it was screwed up in
2.2.5 & 2.2.6).
And whaddaya get ? *sigh*
> -DG
>
> David Greenman
> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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