Simple but important bug-fixes follow. Please check them out if you ... about X locking up perodically (Subject was >[BUG REPORT] swapping trouble ?!?). Now that I ... static struct wait_queue * inode_wait = NULL; 2) in linux/include/linux/fs.h, ...

linux-activists - Linus Torvalds - Dec 14 1992 - 15:22

... @klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes: >Simple but important bug-fixes follow. Please check them out if ... a rock. X no longer goes down in flames! -Chris -- >>>> Chris Newbold <<<< * "If you fool ...

linux-activists - Chris Newbold - Dec 14 1992 - 18:50

... at 0x280, the boot correctly says it can't find a board, and continues past. However, when I change the base address to 0x0380 in net/tcp/Space.h, Linux prints WD80013, and goes off into the night. It doesn't reboot, it just hangs. Any fixes, anyone ...

linux-activists - Sten M. Drescher - Dec 16 1992 - 18:26

... a static pointer to NULL] >In normal C programs, yes, but ... loader itself can be written in C (I've written one ... BSS initialization. And, as the bug more than clearly demonstrates, there ... for any floating point code in operating systems and absence of ...

linux-activists - Zdenek Radouch - Dec 20 1992 - 14:42

... it, you would lose the value of the variable >every time the function was called, nullifying the advantage statics have >in functions, (namely holding a value out of visibility). No, statics are initialized only once, at program startup, even if ...

linux-activists - Lars Wirzenius - Dec 29 1992 - 21:39

>For all multi-user operating systems (like Linux ;-), the operating >system must in general initialize the memory for security reasons. >Thus it is not time wasted. You are right, all operating systems do that. However, this is optional, i.e., the ...

linux-activists - Zdenek Radouch - Dec 30 1992 - 11:08

... is an explicit >initialiser needed here. A static pointer ought to be initialised to >NULL in the executable already? In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is a bit special. Like, for instance, who is going ...

linux-activists - Lars Wirzenius - Dec 19 1992 - 18:23

In article <20367@ksr.com> zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes: > > Also, why does the init code run in 16-bit mode? The device drivers are not yet loaded, and it needs the BIOS to load the kernel. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit. ...

linux-activists - Charles Hannum - Dec 23 1992 - 06:16

In article <1hpsasINN6e@meaddata.meaddata.com> sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams) writes: >Statics are either explicitly ... statics (or auto's). Quoting from the ANSI C Reference Manual in K&R 2nd edition, page 219: "A static object not ...

linux-activists - David Boyce - Dec 29 1992 - 14:59

... are correct - what would be the advantage of a static in a function? If you NEEDED to initialize it, you would lose ... every time the function was called, nullifying the advantage statics have in functions, (namely holding a value out of visibility).

linux-activists - Mike Campbell - Dec 29 1992 - 17:53

In article <1992Dec14.192204.16359@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI ( ... [odds and ends re fixing things...] > 1) in linux/fs/inode.c, at the start ... pointer ought to be initialised to NULL in the executable already? Jim -- Jim Segrave - ...

linux-activists - Jim Segrave - Dec 19 1992 - 15:32

... want you to give the chapter and verse in the ANSI or the ISO C standard ( ... K&R 1 says, on page 199, in A8.6, Initialization, Static and external variables ... way before K&R 1 was published in 1978). -- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger ...

linux-activists - Lars Wirzenius - Dec 29 1992 - 16:14

... wrong.... Really, it was true somewhere... back in the K&R dark ages... honestly... ... ), you need a humbling experience every once in a while to put things in perspective.... sdw -- Stephen D. Williams Local Internet Gateway Co.; SDW Systems 513 ...

linux-activists - Stephen Williams - Dec 29 1992 - 21:17

... failing because tolower() is incorrectly defined in ctype.h: the plus sign should ... the code uglier as people put in porting #ifdef's. gcc has ... looking at the object code in the boot sector and the ... it up against the opcodes in the gas sources, but this ...

linux-activists - Theodore Ts'o - Nov 15 1991 - 19:42

... > wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes: >In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is ... , but if you're used to programming in C, I think you may tend to assume ... getting caught on this more than once in the future. I just sort of assumed that ...

linux-activists - Jim Segrave - Dec 20 1992 - 16:41

... A static pointer ought to be initialised to : >NULL in the executable already? : ... to guarantee that some "start_bss" symbol is always first in bss to use in ... want to keep this pretty early in main(). :-) paul fox, pgf@cayman.com, ...

linux-activists - Paul Fox - Dec 22 1992 - 20:14

... ought to be initialised to : >NULL in the executable already? NOT ... In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is a bit ... explicit optimization over having nulls in your executable, link a dummy ... dummy bss variable. Then, asap in main, do: memset(dum_beg, 0 ...

linux-activists - Stephen Williams - Dec 29 1992 - 11:54

... an explicit optimization >over having nulls in your executable, link a dummy module ... you get screwed up only in your crt0! To quote again: ... have used would do this in the loader. >And, yes, it ... bsz segments. That's bullshit, in the 10+ years I have ...

linux-activists - Zdenek Radouch - Dec 29 1992 - 16:33

In article mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu ... the advantage of a static in a function? > >If you NEEDED ... , nullifying the advantage statics have >in functions, (namely holding a value ... comes into scope. I looked in k&r 2d ed and ...

linux-activists - Qual Trak - Dec 30 1992 - 01:06

... , why does the init code run in 16-bit mode? I'd assume that the first > five instructions in the boot code would put the ... The reason why so much is done in 16 bit mode is probably because ... good idea to handle it in setup or in the kernel itself, ...

linux-activists - Werner Almesberger - Dec 24 1992 - 20:26