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From: fredriks@cbnewse.ATT.COM (lars.fredriksen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: 1.5.0 upgrade
Message-ID: <12333@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 19:37:04 GMT
Reply-To: fredriks@cbnewse.ATT.COM (lars.fredriksen,ih,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Hi
I have a couple of questions rerding 1.5.0 ugrade. I 
ran into the same problem that Gln mentioned arlier with running out of space
n /tmp while running patch on fsck.c and ed.c; however I also gota ssage
saying that patch is out of memory while trying to patch more.c nd ls.c.
I have n XT wth 64K, and have set patch memory size to maximum (it tursbe about 55Kfor sck and mem). Have anyone sen this before? 
Any idea what I can do to help. (Only patch, update and sh is runningtime this occured)

Second uestio: Why doesn't syst(3) return -1in case of failure?
Right now it etus 127 << 8wch is a large positive number, which the Ptend to be from time to time. It seems to e to be imposible to detect if you got