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From: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix ST 1.5.0
Keywords: minix, atarist, upgrade
Message-ID: <1990Mar3.034537.5935@max.sunysb.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 03:45:37 GMT
Sender: Francisco Figueirido
Reply-To: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Followup-To: 1294
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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In article 1294 Frank Breure writes:
> Some of the problems I have:
> 1. "more" still crashes after the first window
> 
> 2. "sh" crashes everytime I'm using regular expressions (like "ls -l *.c")
> 	it gets signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
> 
> 3. "mkdir" doesn't work,
> 	it complains: "<directory>: cannot create"
> 	even if your are the owner of the current the directory
> 	and have "rwx" permissions to it.
> 
> These are the major problems, I have not been testing all commands yet, but
> these are the most important ones.
> 

 There were patches for the directory routines posted on the net
which, at least in my case, solved the problems with "more". The
problem with the shell could be actually in "ls", which as was posted
had many bugs. Some of them were fixed with the patches to the direc-
tory routines (some files in /usr/src/lib/other, but I don't remember
now which ones). I found that it still had problems with empty direc-
tories but that is easy to fix (surely 1.5.3 already fixed it?).

 I also had the problem with "mkdir". I think the point is that only
root can create or destroy directory i-nodes, so both should be owned
by root and have the setuid bit (do a chmod u+s mkdir rmdir). But be
careful because there is a little bug: you can rmdir any directory
even without write permission (rmdir should check the real uid but
it seems it doesn't).

 Hope this helps!

	Francisco Figueirido
	e-mail: figuei@max.sunysb.edu
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