* [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape
@ 2002-12-24 7:55 Wolfgang Helbig
2002-12-26 9:34 ` Warren Toomey
2002-12-27 20:58 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
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From: Wolfgang Helbig @ 2002-12-24 7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
someone on this list mentioned a '50 bugs tape', which contains bug fixes
to Unix V6. Is this list somewhere in the archive?
Thank you,
Wolfgang
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* [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape
2002-12-24 7:55 [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape Wolfgang Helbig
@ 2002-12-26 9:34 ` Warren Toomey
2002-12-27 19:47 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
2002-12-27 20:58 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
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From: Warren Toomey @ 2002-12-26 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article by Wolfgang Helbig:
> Hi,
> someone on this list mentioned a '50 bugs tape', which contains bug fixes
> to Unix V6. Is this list somewhere in the archive?
> Thank you,
> Wolfgang
The mythical `50 bugs' tape, described in Peter Salus' book `A Quarter
Century of UNIX' has been found lurking in the Unix Archive. You can
find it in PDP-11/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz as the file
usr/sys/v6unix/unix_changes.
[ from the updates file at the top of the Unix Archive :-) ]
Warren
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* [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape
2002-12-26 9:34 ` Warren Toomey
@ 2002-12-27 19:47 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
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From: Mirian Crzig Lennox @ 2002-12-27 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:34:23 +1000 (EST), Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>In article by Wolfgang Helbig:
>> Hi,
>> someone on this list mentioned a '50 bugs tape', which contains bug fixes
>> to Unix V6. Is this list somewhere in the archive?
>> Thank you,
>> Wolfgang
>
>The mythical `50 bugs' tape, described in Peter Salus' book `A Quarter
>Century of UNIX' has been found lurking in the Unix Archive. You can
>find it in PDP-11/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz as the file
>usr/sys/v6unix/unix_changes.
Minor nitpick: it's actually in
Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz (no PDP-11 at the beginning).
cheers,
--Mirian
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* [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape
2002-12-24 7:55 [TUHS] V6: 50 bugs tape Wolfgang Helbig
2002-12-26 9:34 ` Warren Toomey
@ 2002-12-27 20:58 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
2002-12-27 21:55 ` [TUHS] Re: Patches to improve 6th Edition Warren Toomey
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From: Mirian Crzig Lennox @ 2002-12-27 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
This reminds me that I fixed a couple of "bugs" (some outright bugs,
and some mere behaviours which I didn't quite like) in playing with my
V6/simh environment, and I'm wondering if there is a place I should
submit them in case others might be interested. The bugs I've fixed
so far include:
* Compensated for the ldiv bug in ctime().
* Fixed date to allow setting the century in the year.
* Changed df to read /etc/mtab, rather than use a hard-coded
list of filesystems.
* Mkfs wasn't always initialising the 'ino' variable properly,
leading to inconsistent behaviour. Initialised to zero.
* Stopped the ps command printing garbage in the COMMAND field
of process 0.
Some other modifications I've made which bring V6 more in line with
what a seasoned Unix hacker might wish for:
* Changed the shell to allow "cd" as well as "chdir".
* For the mount command, added a -f options for 'fake' mounts
which update /etc/mtab without actually mounting a filesystem.
(useful for putting the root filesystem in the mtab)
* Implemented the inverse operation for the umount command.
* Changed getty and login command to make the default "erase"
character be octal 10 rather than hash mark.
* Changed the stty command to additionally allow setting "erase"
and "kill" characters by their octal codes.
If any of these would be considered interesting, I would be only too
happy to release patches. I'll doubtless have more, as well, as I
press on.
My eventual goal is to come up with a 6th edition UNIX which is quite
usable, while still being recognisable as 6th edition.
cheers!
--Mirian
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2002-12-27 20:58 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox
@ 2002-12-27 21:55 ` Warren Toomey
2002-12-28 2:43 ` Greg Haerr
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From: Warren Toomey @ 2002-12-27 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article by Mirian Crzig Lennox:
> This reminds me that I fixed a couple of "bugs" (some outright bugs,
> and some mere behaviours which I didn't quite like) in playing with my
> V6/simh environment, and I'm wondering if there is a place I should
> submit them in case others might be interested. [ .. ]
>
> If any of these would be considered interesting, I would be only too
> happy to release patches. I'll doubtless have more, as well, as I
> press on.
>
> My eventual goal is to come up with a 6th edition UNIX which is quite
> usable, while still being recognisable as 6th edition.
> --Mirian
Mirian, I'll definitely make a place somewhere in the Unix Archive
for your work.
Warren
P.S Does anybody want to backport vi to 6th & 7th Edition?! :-)
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