Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!praxis!frankb From: frankb@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Frank Breure) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: bugs in 1.5.5 Keywords: bugs 1.5.5 Message-ID: <2842@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 9 Apr 90 08:03:26 GMT References: <23006@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Lines: 65 In article <23006@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sadgoggin@tiger.waterloo.edu writes: >BUGS: >"file" on a null file has a "Floating exception" and core dumps >If elvis or term crashs they are left in a mode (raw??) that >makes the terminal useless. I think this isn't a bug, your terminal remains in raw mode when a program crashes (you could call the program that crashes buggy, not the OS). This problem appears on almost all UNIX-systems. You should reset your terminal by typing ^J stty default ^J It's better to you use ^J instead of because this will not be translated whenever your terminal is in the wrong mode. >Some tasks that are going to the back ground (ie cron) leave no name in the >command column when F1 is pressed. This could mean that they are executed with wrong parameters If you call execve( "commandname", argv, NULL ), with argv[0] != commandname then the OS will not know the commandname. >tset doesn't work (below is my ttytype file) >mx tty0 >hp tty1 >vt100 tty2 >ps doesn't work because it can't find the offset the get the info >from the kernel >IT would be a good idea the have a table in the kernel of locations of >important routines (a concept like a vector table) so that >ps and others (uptime, boot programs) can work from os revision to >revision. I don't have this problem, I think your ps is compiled wrong, or your kernel is not in the right place (or unreadable). Myself I did have problems to get ps working but that was my own misstake, I had a PC-version a.out.h on my ST, this obviously doesn't work. There is an option to ps (-U)( that will create a file in /etc with the kernels namelist. >NOTES: >It would be a good idea if term used "~." instead of "@" or "Ou" to >escape then it could be called "cu" and be nonsystem dependant >The more traditional man page system permits easier updating >and addition to entries(which is needed). > Sean >sean@watcsc.waterloo.edu (my main site) 1-519-746-6036 Good Luck, Frank.