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diff --git a/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 b/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 deleted file mode 100644 index 19a5f371..00000000 --- a/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ -Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 20:15:09 -0400 -From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) -To: hurd-ann@gnu.ai.mit.edu -Subject: New Hurd snapshot - - -A new Hurd snapshot has been released. You can get it from -alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu in the file /gnu/hurd-snap.tar.gz. You will need -the most recent version of the GNU C library; version 1.08.3 or later. -(Version 1.08.3 is an alpha release; you can get it from -alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu in the same directory.) - -This snapshot of the Hurd has a limping terminal driver. It can run -emacs, bash, a whole slew of utilities, and (most importantly) GNU -Hello. - - -mib - - -Here is the new part of the NEWS file: - -The Hurd now runs all the programs in the GNU fileutils, textutils, -and shellutils distributions, with the exception of who. Most -importantly it runs GNU Hello. Also, emacs works (with the kludgy -`boot' terminal driver) and bash works. - -The simple pipes server works; it will be replaced eventually by the -pflocal server (which isn't done yet). The terminal driver is limping -but working. It doesn't support terminal ioctls yet. A minor bug in -auth has been fixed. boot interprets more Hurd protocols; this was -done to get emacs functioning. Some more-or-less serious bugs in exec -were fixed; they were found by running emacs (a quite large executable -indeed). At bootstrap time, init starts pipes and term itself; -eventually these will be passive translators, but we don't want to -write the new disk format until we're self-hosting or fsck and UX will -get confused. The file proc/primes.c has been documented; thanks go -to Jim Blandy. Some bugs in proc dealing with pgrp and wait were -fixed; a nasty hash table bug was also fixed. The simple shell can do -pipes. Several serious bugs in ufs were fixed dealing with extension -of large files and writes of data not aligned on block boundaries. -The ufs pager was over-serialized; that's been fixed. Directory -lookups and modifications now use mapped I/O directly; this is an -important speed-up. The structure of the pager lockes has been -changed significantly. UFS now supports Mach copying mode -MEMORY_OBJECT_COPY_DELAY; this significantly improves process startup -time. - -Some minor changes have been made to several interfaces. The -interface for fs.defs:dir_readdir has been totally changed. There are -some new fs.defs interfaces: file_check_access, file_notice_changes, -dir_notice_changes. The fsys.defs:fsys_getroot interface was changed -to work correctly. process.defs:proc_setprocargs is renamed, and a -fetch function proc_get_arg_locations is added. The ifsock.defs -interface was simplified. - -Several bugs were fixed in libdiskfs. The new dir_readdir interface -requires new support from format-specific code. Some race conditions -have been fixed. dir-pathtrans.c now deals correctly with multiple -slashes in a row. A new concept called "light references" allows -pagers to remain active without preventing truncate-on-nolinks from -working right. New interfaces in fs.defs are implemented (except -file_notice_changes). Active translator usage has been fixed to work -correctly, but passive translators are still untested. libdiskfs now -thinks it supports S_IFSOCK nodes, but that's untested (of course) -because pflocal isn't done yet. - -The passive translator startup interface in libfshelp has been -radically simplified. The pager library now lets other code set and -changee the attributes on objects, synchronously if desired. An -init/terminate race condition was fixed. The ports library now -allows single-threaded users to work right (they didn't before). The -trivfs library works; see the ifsock server for a simple example of -its use. See term or pipes for more complex examples. - -There is a task list in the file `tasks'; let me know if you are -interested in working on one of these. - |