... of the Minix kernel compiled in about a minute on a 386/20/2MB/slow disks. There were fewer modules and far fewer header files then. -- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Jan 4 1993 - 01:54

... not compile. -Dsigset=signal probably won't work if the application wants reliable signals, either. Linux signal() gives unreliable signals :-(. -- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Jan 21 1993 - 03:53

... BogoMips. If someone changes the speed in the middle then the delay will only be off by a few usec instead of a large factor. -- Bruce Evans bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Aug 2 1993 - 04:41

... write speeds are probably caused by insufficent read-ahead by the file system. This problem is often masked by read-ahead by the controller. -- Bruce Evans bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Aug 24 1993 - 21:46

... , there's no >copyright notice on that file, and no email address for the author, This file was copied from the Minix fsck.c so it is presumably copyright. Most of the rest of shoelace could be used by Linux without copyright problems. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 9 1991 - 03:16

... happens to the header names if the user has maliciously #defined ansi, classic, foo and h :-). I think something like #include <__implementation.h> is required in many header files. Just deciding what is quasi-STDC takes a lot of ifdefs. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 12 1991 - 09:28

... necessary for 286-386/287-387 systems Perhaps Linus meant the coprocessor bits in the parameter RAM. These had a reuputation for being unreliable for distinguishing between 287's and no-coprocessor but I think they are OK for 387's. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Nov 18 1991 - 02:09

... s nice to be able to say "less *" and not get garbage or useless warnings about binary files. I looked at putting decompression in version 177 but the changes in buffering stdin made things too difficult considering that 0.97 already works. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Dec 20 1991 - 12:24

... in find, because x=y export x fails to set x. updatedb has a statement like this to set the PATH. Isn't this supposed to work? It worked for bash-1.08 and works for ksh on ISC Unix. It doesn't work for bash-1.10 on Minix or ISC Unix. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Dec 21 1991 - 00:25

... to check the modem status bits and possibly the line status bits directly before leaving the interrupt handler. Someone says that these bits sometimes lie too and it helps to disable and enable modem status and output interrupts a lot. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Jan 4 1992 - 00:26

... NGROUPS_MAX. >Alternatively, someone could try adding setgroups()/getgroups() to >Linux --- this would be a good thing, since the BSD way is much easier Minix has { return 0; } for getgroups. This is good enough for fileutils to work. Bruce

linux-activists - Bruce Evans - Jan 4 1992 - 00:42