tree dc6f792d46650571f991d1419648ebf213501ebe
parent aa6801a43050b29edd52bdf39a69d8479d1582e9
author Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI> 710292340 +0000
committer Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> 1187547545 -0400

0.96c out

The latest kernel version is 0.96c: the binary and sources can be found
on banjo.concert.net: pub/Linux/Linus as usual. I haven't made the
cdiffs yet, and I'll upload those tomorrow (at the same time I'll put it
on the other sites as well).

0.96c is actually what I called patch3 earlier this week, but as the new
features were pretty big and the cdiff's are probably going to be bigger
than the normal patches, I decided I might as well make it a totally new
minor release and make a bootimage and complete source available.

0.96c contains:
 - bugfixes (tty, console driver, pty's, sockets)
 - fifo's (names pipes - Paul Hargrove & editing by me)
 - the alpha extended filesystem (Remy Card)
 - st_blocks implemented (ie du, ls give reasonable if not exact values
   for disk-space used)
 - Makefile cleanups and warnings at compile-time removed

Note that while the extended filesystem code is there, and this kernel
successfully mounts and uses the new filesystem (with long filenames and
>64MB partitions), it's still under testing: I haven't made the mkefs
program available, and the extended filesystem features shouldn't be
used for other than testing right now.

Some of the changes are just cleanups: most of the warnings when
compiling the new kernel should be gone (not counting the scsi code
which is still the old non-cleaned-up version), and the make'ing of the
kernel is more logical now.

The bugfixes include the corrected console.c driver, the socket
corrections (without which X sometimes locks up), some pty semantics
corrections (although I'm still not certain it's correct) and some
editing in the general tty driver (including fixing the bug introduced
in 0.96b.pl2 that caused a reboot with uninitialized tty devices).

While the extended filesystem support isn't "official" yet, I can
happily report that my limited testing hasn't found any problems with
long filenames etc. It still needs a fsck program, but 1.0 looks like a
real possibility soon.

		Linus