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From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: St80 and SunOS 4.1.1
Keywords: upgrade, bugs
Message-ID: <khaw.671679418@parcplace.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 01:36:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.141747.1347@irisa.fr>
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In <1991Apr11.141747.1347@irisa.fr> boissier@irisa.fr (franck boissiere) writes:

>I just upgraded to SunOS 4.1.1 and I found some "bugs". 

>When running the 2.5 version of Smalltalk-80 I have often messages such as
>snapshot primitive failed due to platform. Sometime the snapshots are good 
>sometimes they are not.

This is caused by a bug in the write(2) system call in SunOS 4.1.1 
and only affects saving snapshots to a filesystem on a local disk. 
Sun has recently developed a patch for the problem. Request the patch 
for bug ID 1052649.

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Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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