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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: new /unix, minor improvements
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 18:47:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 18:47:43 1984
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Now running a new kernel with minor improvements.  An old (non-working)
kludge for dialout stuff got taken out.  The kludgey "all8b" mode for
running HP laser printers has been replaced by a new "cpass" mode, done
rather more cleanly; this is not fully tested yet.  And the (previously
undocumented, and rather peculiar) behavior of signal 0 has been modified
to be simple and clean:  it can now be used to test whether a process
really still exists, in a safe and dependable way.  Kill(1) has not yet
been modified to match.
-- 
"Where there's smoke, there's smoke.  No further conclusion is justified."

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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