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From: s861298@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ligita.img.com.au is up and running with 1.5h
Message-ID: <1991May30.035744.20660@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 30 May 91 03:57:44 GMT
References: <9105281653.AA02485@hplwbc.hpl.hp.com> <1991May29.005403.14215@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991May29.121848.9085@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
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evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) writes:

>In article <1991May29.005403.14215@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s861298@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma) writes:
>>What I ment to say was to patch mknod...
>>ie. mknod name p/b/c [major minor [size]]

>That has sort of already been done many times too.

>1) The original implementation of named pipes for Minix had mkfifo. Sorry I
>forgot to get it into 1.5.
It gets there due to being in the PC 1.5 sources... guess I now have both.

>>With respect to symbolic links (the package on plains), what would be the
>>best way to patch so that any updates that you produce can still be applied
>>with the minimal amount of fuss ?

>There is no good way. I think the version on plains is quite out of date.
>A later version was posted to the 1.6.15 mailing list by Earl Chew. I took
>it out of my version once to test and debug 1.6. This was too much work.

That seems to be the general opinion... How goes 1.6 ? Will there be a 
'532 release when its stable ? (Lives in hope :)

Although its not the right place to ask, will 1.6 have job control ?

>Bruce