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From: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: What are the "new" things in 1.2.1
Date: 15 May 1997 00:25:35 GMT
Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
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Christoph Rimek <chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de> wrote:
> Recently I looked to one of the NetBSD mirror sites and found a new
> distribution release 1.2.1 (March 97), but without any documents or
> READMEs that explain the changes to the 1.2 release?
> Can anyone help me out?
> What is new in this 1.2.1 release, is there so much new/better stuff
> included that it is worth upgrading?
jabberwocky% cat NetBSD-1.2.1/source/src121/*.?? | tar plzvxOf - ./usr/src/PATCHLEVEL
./usr/src/PATCHLEVEL
This file describes official patches for the NetBSD 1.2 release.
Mondo patch 1:
[ kernel/alpha ] Fix several SCSI protocol errors in the "esp" driver.
[ kernel/sparc ] Fix several SCSI protocol errors in the "esp" driver.
[ kernel/netinet ] Fix handling of long IP packets; no longer
susceptible to the "Windows 95 death ping" bug.
[ netstat(1) ] Display the `toolong' IP stat count, corresponding to
netinet change above.
[ kernel/scsi ] For ioctl commands which may change the device's state,
ensure the caller has the device open for writing (security precaution).
[ lpd(8) ] Fix some errors in the lpd(8) manual page.
[ eeprom(1) ] Discard setgid privileges if we don't need them.
[ kernel/hp300 ] Make sure clock interrupts are disabled at the end of
the delay calibration routine. Fixes a bug where the kernel would get a
bad pointer reference and crash very early in kernels without DDB.
[ mt(1) ] Don't attempt to set TCP_MAXSEG for remote mt.
[ kernel/scsi ] In the sd driver, start a mode sense with a clean sense
buffer.
[ kernel/alpha ] Fix race condition in tcds interrupt code.
[ distrib/amiga ] Add missing hardware items to release notes.
[ mountd(8) ] Fix two critical bugs on NetBSD/alpha.
[ kernel/atari ] Fix AHDI badsector list handling.
[ kernel/atari ] Add lpt0 driver to fix undefined symbols.
[ kernel/pmax ] Add initialization of SYSV IPC/SHM/semaphores.
[ kernel/pmax ] Add call to doshutdownhooks().
[ kernel/pmax ] Fix typo in pmax debug code (pr #2739).
[ kernel/pmax ] Fix data corruption bug in asc SCSI driver.
[ kernel/pmax ] Fix semantic confusion between SIGBUS and SIGSEGV.
[ kernel/alpha ] Fix PPP netisr handling.
[ kernel/mac68k ] Fix output interrupt race condtion in zs driver.
[ kernel/elf ] Deal with ELF executables with only one section.
[ kernel/amiga ] Fix m68881_save/restore() on 68060 machines.
[ kernel/atari ] Fix installboot version strings.
[ kernel/m68k ] Fix fmovem register naming in kernel disassembler.
[ kernel/m68k ] Fix error that prevented FPINCOS opcode emulation.
[ kernel/alpha ] Fix TurboChannel framebuffer detection code.
[ kernel/alpha ] Fix register access in SCC driver.
[ kernel/amiga ] Fix spurious interrupt in ARCnet driver.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix infinite loop bug in shutdown code.
[ pppd(8) ] Read TTY-specific options and fix pid file deletion bug.
[ kernel/generic ] Only build ufs_quota.o if ``quota'' option is in
config.
[ sendmail ] Updated to 8.8.4.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix possible overrun bugs in networking code.
[ kernel/i386 ] Added vmstat -i counters.
[ kernel/generic ] Remove possible overrun bugs in error printing code.
[ dump/restore ] Make dump and restore work on alpha, fix bug restoring
images when current directory is on NFS.
[ kernel/sparc ] Fix bug in Sun4m Ethernet driver that caused each
received packet to generate two interrupts rather than one.
[ distrib/mac68k ] Include new hardware and updated install notes.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix ``traceroute host 7000'' bug that crashed kernel.
[ distrib/atari ] Add description of HDX usage when preparing a bootable
AHDI partition.
[ fsck_ffs(8) ] Fix various type size problems, and an O(n^2) algorithm.
[ setuid(2) ] Document why we don't implement _POSIX_SAVED_IDS.
[ select(2) ] Allow using a nfds larger than the FD_SETSIZE the kernel
was compiled with.
[ kernel/procfs ] Add a missing lock that could cause a panic when
reading /proc/N/mem.
[ kernel/i386 ] Use the memory size passed in by the boot block, to
preserve the BIOS data area.
[ kernel/i386 ] Preserve more registers around BIOS calls in the boot
program, and some other minor bug fixes.
[ kernel/i386 ] Turn off some diagnostic code in the aha, bt, and wds
drivers that would occasionally cause a spurious panic.
[ kernel/i386 ] Speed up in_cksum().
[ ls(1) ] Fix sorting bugs.
[ kernel/pci ] Probe the I/O and memory sizes correctly on cards that
may not permit all of the bits in the address to be set.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix a race condition where an AST may be delayed until
the next interrupt.
[ kernel/generic ] Don't permit a core dump if P_SUGID is set (the
process has changed IDs during or since the last execve(2)).
[ mtree(8) ] Don't record sizes for things other than regular files.
Add a `-t' option to update time stamps (rather than just complain about
them).
[ kernel/i386 ] Allow CONADDR and CONUNIT to be overridden in the config
file.
[ select(2) ] Document EFAULT as a valid errno value.
[ nfsd(8) ] Make sure to clear the sin_zero fields.
[ rwhod(8) ] Fix type size problems.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix two bugs in the wds driver that caused -ASC cards to
fail completely.
[ c++(1) ] Fix libgcc so that code using exception handling links.
[ openpty(3) ] Make it work correctly when called multiple times.
[ restore(8) ] Add two missing byte-swaps, so it actually works across
endians.
[ kernel/hp300 ] Fix dca console initialization for use with a serial
terminal, which may require DTR and RTS.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix com console initialization for use with a serial
terminal, which may require DTR and RTS.
[ setreuid(2), setregid(2) ] Implement these correctly, per SunOS and
other systems.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix bogus references to user-level include files.
[ kernel/ibcs2 ] Fix read(2)ing of directories.
[ kernel/compat ] Make exec*(2) do path name translation.
[ kernel/nfs ] Use NFS-specific malloc types, rather than M_TEMP.
[ kernel/netinet ] Return EAGAIN if there are no free ports in the
normal user range.
[ kernel/netinet ] Fix several RTT scaling errors introduced with the
RTT rounding fixes suggested by Brakmo and Peterson.
[ kernel/mvme68k ] Fix an uninitialized variable and a missing RELOC()
in the startup code.
[ kernel/sparc ] Disable rcons on the bwtwo, since it doesn't work yet.
[ kernel/sparc ] Fix place offset calculation on the cgfour.
[ kernel/netinet ] Ignore the reserved fragment flag when checking for
fragmentation.
[ kernel/netinet ] Don't reset the keepalive timer if in SYN-SENT or
SYN-RECEIVED state and we're not ready to go to ESTABLISHED.
[ kernel/net* ] Eliminate SS_PRIV. Fix many memory leaks and incorrect
errno values.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix several bugs in the ahb driver.
[ kernel/generic ] Change the exec locking protocol to fix a deadlock.
[ kernel/generic ] Make physio() work for UIO_SYSSPACE.
[ kernel/generic ] Don't permit negative resource limits, which will
cause various panics.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix a null pointer dereference when shmdt(2) is
called before shmat(2).
[ kernel/generic ] Fix a deadlock when SO_{SND,RCV}BUF is called with a
buffer size of 0.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix a null pointer dereference when attempting to
change the default route without specifying a gateway.
[ kernel/generic ] Fix a null pointer dereference when syncing after a
panic during autoconfig or while idle.
[ kernel/generic ] Seeking on a FIFO should return ESPIPE.
[ kernel/nfs ] Make MNT_FORCE work in more cases.
[ kernel/nfs ] Fix a memory leak when a file formerly mmap(2)ed on the
server is remove(2)d by a client.
[ stat(2) ] S_ISFIFO(x) should not return true with sockets.
S_ISSOCK(x) should not return true with fifos.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix timing bug in floppy driver.
[ kernel/msdosfs ] Fix a bug with allowed/disallowed characters in non-
Win95 filenames.
[ kernel/msdosfs ] Don't extend directory when nothing is written to it.
[ kernel/amiga ] Update msc serial driver.
[ kernel/generic ] Clarify section of code in sys_setitimer().
[ kernel/generic ] Fix bug in SunOS emulation when using half-open ptys.
[ kernel/bio ] Fix potential NULL-pointer dereference.
[ kernel/slip ] Cleanup unnecessary pointer arithmetic.
[ kernel/mac68k ] Correctly support Mac LC III-type machines.
[ games/larn ] Fix security bug (closes PR #2699).
[ compress(1) ] Fix usage of stdin and stdout (closes PR #774 & #957)
[ cron(8) ] Fix security bugs.
[ pppd(8) ] Allow 255.255.255.255 netmasks. Fixes bin/2954.
[ sh(1) ] Fix many bugs in system shell.
[ lpr(1)/lprm(1)/lpc(8)/lpd(8) ] Fix security bugs.
[ make(1) ] Fix many bugs in make.
[ write(1) ] Fix a security bug.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix bug in FP exception handling that might cause a core
dump when there is a signal handler installed.
[ C Library/YP ] Fix bug in ypserv and RPC timeout code.
[ fsck_ffs(8) ] Check for (and remove) holes in directories.
[ netstat(8) ] Fix printing of Unix-domain socket addresses.
[ kernel/scsi ] Add better support for optical disks (e.g. ZIP disks).
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix bugs in ahc driver that affect chips with a small
number of SCBs. Also, recognize more boards/chips.
[ kernel/nfs ] Fix various possible null pointer dereferences and array
bound violations. Also, fix directory lease eviction in NQNFS.
[ kernel/i386 ] Recognize more ep boards.
[ kernel/nfs ] Attempting to make a cross-device link into NFS would
panic the client. Fix this.
[ cron(8) ] Fix possible buffer overflow, from Rick Byers
<rickb@iaw.on.ca>, PR #3293.
[ dmesg(8) ] Don't get stuck in an infinite loop if the msgbuf index is
0 or 1, from enami tsugutomo <enami@ba2.so-net.or.jp>, PR #3285.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix the 3COM `sniper bug', which could cause packets to
be accepted that were not sent to the local host, in turn causing bogus
redirects and/or ICMP unreachables.
[ kernel/i386 ] Fix trap handling problem that allowed a user to panic
the system.
Enjoy,
Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>