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From: norman@nose.cs.utoronto.ca (Norman Wilson)
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Patches to improve 6th Edition
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:42:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301081343.h08Dhin48421@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)

A belated rejoinder to:

  This bug existed from (at least) the Fifth up until the Eighth
  editions from 1127 (BTL research). The Ninth edition had much
  rewrites in the kernel and the algorthim was changed at that point.

You're welcome.  I can't remember, though, whether I fixed it on
purpose or as part of the many general cleanups and restructurings
I did at that point.  And I didn't do enough of it; recently I
discovered a dumb problem that I probably introduced in the same
cleanups, wherein the i-node allocated for a file that couldn't be
created because the file system was full and the directory entry
couldn't be written was left allocated but nameless ...

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON



             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 13:42 Norman Wilson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-28 20:38 Wolfgang Helbig
2002-12-28  8:33 Wolfgang Helbig
2002-12-28  7:07 Mike Haertel
2002-12-28  5:19 Brian S Walden
2002-12-28  2:58 John Holden
2002-12-27 20:58 [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape Mirian Crzig Lennox
2002-12-27 21:55 ` [TUHS] Re: Patches to improve 6th Edition Warren Toomey
2002-12-28  2:43   ` Greg Haerr

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