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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: readclock (v1.5.10)
Keywords: broke, (unsigned), CPU_TYPE_SEGMENT
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.065847.25156@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 7 Oct 90 06:58:47 GMT
References: <7373@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Lines: 14

>MINIX crashes somewhere in port_out() when running in protected mode.

Readclock should do a stat on /dev/port and complain and not proceed
when /dev/port is a block device.

>PS: not all the lseek()s in portio and peekpoke use SEEK_SET, some still
>    use a bare '0' as a parameter. For that matter, sometimes the
>    read() or write() count parameter isn't (size_t), but is (unsigned)

I fixed this and another bug in version 1.x.y (x = 4 or 5) but the fix
got overwritten by another version of the fix for the other bug in version
1.x.(y+1). Everyone was too tired for another round of trivial fixes.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au