Subject: Linux-Development Digest #741
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Sat, 21 May 94 02:13:04 EDT

Linux-Development Digest #741, Volume #1         Sat, 21 May 94 02:13:04 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Bug report (?): Gnu C++ 2.5.8 with Linux 1.0.8 (Posix) or 1.1.0 (Joe Buck)
  Re: SIGHUP: We tried it! (Theodore Ts'o)
  URGENT: Linux Security Fixes (Alan Cox)
  Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7 (Robert Sanders)
  Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7 (Orc)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck)
Subject: Re: Bug report (?): Gnu C++ 2.5.8 with Linux 1.0.8 (Posix) or 1.1.0
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 21:19:46 GMT

rcbare@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Remco v. Engelen) writes:
>I think I've found a bug in either the Linux floating point emulation code
>or the Gnu C++ compiler for Linux. When the running the following piece
>of code I get a Floating Exception:

g++ bugs should be reported to gnu.g++.bug.  The g++ maintainers at
Cygnus are much more likely to see them if you do.  Yes, it could be
Linux specific, but it's just as likely to be on all 80x86 platforms.

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From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: SIGHUP: We tried it!
Date: 21 May 1994 01:27:18 -0400
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)

In article <1994May20.151724.368@loreli.ftl.fl.us>,
Sean Puckett <nate@loreli.ftl.fl.us> wrote:
|
|Okay.  I hacked the kernel, just like this:
|
|This solved many of our test cases, but also screwed up another program which
|hadn't detached itself from the terminal and was simply ignoring stdin as
|its way of staying alive through loss of tty.
|
|Perhaps this is an 'i told you so' from the ivory tower tribe.  Like I said,
|being right isn't what matters to me.  Finding a solution to my problems is.

The "ivory tower tribe", huh?  I'll excuse you, and assume you don't
know how much work I've done working on the Linux kernel.  Some of us
just have had enough experience doing Unix work that we *know* when some
idea is half-baked, without having to try it.  :-)

                                                - Ted



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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux.admin
From: A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: URGENT: Linux Security Fixes
Reply-To: A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 16:41:20 GMT

Linux security warning
======================

Almost all Linux machines are vulnerable to an old BSD trick giving
telnet/rlogin access as any user with no password. A fixed telnetd/rlogind
pair along with an lpr/lpc/lpd set of utilities with other smaller but vital
security fixes is now on

        sunacm.swan.ac.uk:/pub/Linux/Networking/URGENT/security.tgz

This tar contains both source and binaries built for libc 4.5.21 without
shadow passwords. The source can build for shadow passwords.

Alan.
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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders)
Subject: Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7
Date: 19 May 1994 21:11:55 -0400

bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>In article <1994May19.192201.2639@uk.ac.swan.pyr>, iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) says:
>+---------------
>| This is why I find the whole thing so improbable in some ways. There is no
>| way Novell could add Stacker support to the Linux kernel environment without
>| in effect releasing a GPL'd stacker equivalent. Given that stacker are
>+------------->8

>I suggest you go back and study the latest userfs announcement on c.o.l.a.

I suggest you study the reams of flaming that occurred the last time
thought that the GPL had a single, defensible interpretation.  One
interpretation, and I'm not saying it's the only one or even a right
one, was that any program which was meant to specifically interface with
a GPL'ed program and no other was therefore part of a derived work (the
program+the GPL'ed work).

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From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Subject: Re: 32-bit Novell desktop OS combines Unix, DOS 7
Reply-To: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 20:37:32 GMT

In article <Cq2CvG.GHn@hunan.rastek.com>,
Jim Morris <jmorris@darkstar.rastek.com> wrote:

>If this "Corsair" products is real, and is based upon the Linux kernel at all,
>we all know that Linus himself says that it would be virtually impossible,
>or at least very difficult, to port the Linux kernel to another processor.

  Well, this will no doubt come as a great surprise to the people
who've ported Linux to the (RIP) Commodore Amiga.

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   david parsons \bi/ followups set to comp.os.linux.misc
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