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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA25 ; Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:10:51 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@stark.uucp (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Beware patch00061 Date: 26 Jan 93 08:48:00 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GENE.93Jan26084800@stark.stark.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In the new patchkit-0.2 just released, people should be aware that patch00061 makes an incompatible change to the interface of functions having to do with select(2), including "selwakeup". The change is that (pid_t)'s, rather than (struct proc *)'s, are now required to identify the process to be awakened. Patch00061 makes the changes to all the code present in the base system, but anyone who is using other drivers that support select will have to apply appropriate changes. These drivers include Rick Macklem's 386 bus mouse driver and my "tw" X-10 driver. Chris Demetriou's "com-beta" driver already uses the new interface, so if you are trying to get it to work without having applied patch00061 you should give it up and get the patchkit. In the next two postings, I include patches for Rick Macklem's busmouse driver, and for my X-10 driver. - Gene Stark