SRI-NOSC/new/dist.log
25-Apr-79 14:08:25-PST,3074;000000000001
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 25-Apr-79 1407-PST
Date: 25 Apr 1979 at 1257-PST
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: incremental distribution log
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
The new system has been very stable this week, so I think I'll distribute it
next week. I would have done it this week but I'm going skiing for four days
(through Tuesday) so I wouldn't be around if any problems cropped up during
the weekend. Only one problem has surfaced that may or may not be related to
the new code: occasionally a process will suddenly ignore all interrupts. It
appears to be random in nature, and it's something I've seen in the old system,
but it seems to happen much more frequently now. It will give me something to
work on when I get back.
It seemed very awkward to only permit the super-user to log in when /shutsw
was set -- one would like to also permit specific "trusted" users to login
as well. So, any user in the system group (GID zero) is permitted to login
even if /shutsw is set.
Defining the system group to be the "trusted" users seemed so obvious that
su now uses the same mechanism. This eliminates the need for the site-
specific su.h (with the list of trusted users), so it should be deleted.
Since this would therefore leave su.c in a directory by itself (s2/su),
it should be promoted out into its ancestor directory (s2) and the sub-
directory deleted. See Dist.Maint below for details.
Old business -- the NCP deamon released last time has been running with
no problems. The only problem encountered was the old one concerning the
incorrect optimization of the register quantities, so I changed send_pro.c
to avoid the problem. The ideal solution would be to fix the compiler,
but I don't have anything like the necessary time, and nobody else seems
willing. It's a pity, since we will continue to be bitten by this bug
until the compiler does it right. (Sigh.)
Ron Broersma of NOSC-CC has made some changes "to fix some problems we have
been experiencing" with the host.c program. I don't know what was changed.
doc/C.compiler.bug: module found as doc/C.compiler.bug
doc/tty.chars.lost: module found as doc/tty.chars.lost
doc/getting.set.up: module found as doc/getting.set.up
compile: module found as compile
install: module found as install
mem.c: module not found -- not shipped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
acc.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/acc.c
send_pro.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/send_pro.c
alarm.s: module not found -- not shipped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
host.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/host/host.c
cc.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/cc.c
login.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/login/login.c
su.c: module found as /usr/sys/s2/su.c
if -r /usr/bin/ed su mv /usr/bin/ed /bin/ed
if -r /usr/bin/e su mv /usr/bin/e /bin/e
if ! -r doc mkdir doc
chmod 755 doc
if -r ncpp/alarm.s rm -f ncpp/alarm.s
if -r ncpd/utilities.c rm -f ncpd/utilities.c
if -r s2/su/su.c mv s2/su/su.c s2/su.c
if -r s2/su/su.h rm -f s2/su/su.h
if -r s2/su rmdir s2/su
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26-Apr-79 17:45:06-PST,510;000000000001
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 26-Apr-79 1745-PST
Date: 26 Apr 1979 at 1730-PST
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: *W*A*R*N*I*N*G* Major transmission comming
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
This weekend will be a major new release of code. Almost all of the kernel
modules will be updated. This will mean that those of you who recieve source
will have to make sure that the filesystem to which the source mail is sent
has at least 1000 blocks of storage available. Please be ready. Tks. -- Greg
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1-May-79 06:34:35-PDT,4025;000000000001
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 1-May-79 0633-PDT
Date: 1 May 1979 at 0346-PDT
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: incremental distribution log
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
doc/C.compiler.bug: module found as doc/C.compiler.bug
doc/tty.chars.lost: module found as doc/tty.chars.lost
doc/getting.set.up: module found as doc/getting.set.up
compile: module found as compile
mch.c: module found as /usr/sys/conf/mch.c
buf.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/buf.h
file.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/file.h
filsys.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/filsys.h
inode.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/inode.h
proc.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/proc.h
systm.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/systm.h
text.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/text.h
main.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/main.c
alloc.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/alloc.c
iget.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/iget.c
prf.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/prf.c
rdwri.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/rdwri.c
slp.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/slp.c
subr.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/subr.c
trap.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/trap.c
sig.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sig.c
sysent.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sysent.c
clock.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/clock.c
fio.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/fio.c
nami.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/nami.c
pipe.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/pipe.c
sys1.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sys1.c
sys2.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sys2.c
sys3.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sys3.c
sys4.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/sys4.c
acct.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/acct.c
badint.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/badint.c
bio.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/bio.c
hs.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/hs.c
tc.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/tc.c
tm.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/tm.c
rhstart.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rhstart.c
tty.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/tty.c
dhdm.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/dhdm.c
dh.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/dh.c
mem.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/mem.c
net_contab.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_contab.h
net_hosthost.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_hosthost.h
net_ncp.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_ncp.h
net_net.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_net.h
bad free block (28767)
bad free count
bad free count
bad free count
bad free count
bad free block (10)
net_netbuf.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_netbuf.h
bad free count
net_open.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_open.h
nrdwr.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/nrdwr.c
bad free count
bad free count
bad free count
bad free count
bad free count
nopcls.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/nopcls.c
bad free count
kerbuf.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/kerbuf.c
bad free block (25726)
bad free count
bad free block (12876)
ncpio.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/ncpio.c
bad free count
net_vdh_imp.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_vdh_imp.h
net_vdh.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_vdh.h
net_vdhstat.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_vdhstat.h
vdhio.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/vdhio.c
vdh.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/vdh.c
net_imp.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_imp.h
impio.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/impio.c
net_acc.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_acc.h
acc.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/acc.c
net_ill.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_ill.h
ill.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/ill.c
net_imp11a.h: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/net_imp11a.h
imp11a.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/imp11a.c
TRACE.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/TRACE.c
open.h: module not found -- not shipped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
telnet.h: module not found -- not shipped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
mkcharset.h: module not found -- not shipped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
mailer.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/mail/mailer.c
dd.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/dd.c
su.c: module found as /usr/sys/s2/su.c
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1-May-79 22:44:04-PDT,924;000000000000
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 1-May-79 2243-PDT
Date: 1 May 1979 at 2232-PDT
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: Comments on incremental shipment
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
(Whew!) Well, we finally got this week's distribution out. As you can see,
it contained most of the modules in h, ken, dmr, and ncpk. In the interests
of making sure everybody is consistant, next weekend I'm going to ship all
the modules that WEREN'T shiped this weekend. That will amount to a large
list, but not as large as we just survived.
The changes: after introducing all that paranoia in the mailer, I made
some changes to make it, if not less paranoid, at least less critical.
It now correctly handles transient errors from the remote server by
requeueing the message for later handling instead of returning it to the
sender.
The other two had changes made in the installation sections, both small.
-- Greg
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6-May-79 01:08:53-PDT,4377;000000000000
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 6-May-79 0108-PDT
Date: 5 May 1979 at 2252-PDT
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: incremental distribution log
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
This week we have the remaining modules that we didn't ship last week.
This new system changes some names. Conf/m40.c has been mereged with
the m45 routines and the code made selectable; it is now called mch.c.
The previous ken/backc.c has been placed in conf/mch.c, so it can now
be deleted. The fancy queueing routines in util*.c have been found to
take more time than they saved, so they have been removed. Dmr/mem40.c
has had the mem45.c code included (selectable, of course) and is now
called just mem.c. (The code for /dev/imem is now automatically included
on a /45-class machine. It is the same as /dev/kmem on a /40-class
machine.) The header files used by the network (which used to reside in
h/net) have been moved into the h directory with a net_ prefix. The
Dist.Maint code below removes the old versions; the new version have
been shipped.
The routine that reads the time from time-server hosts has been made
more robust. Since the NCP doesn't support timeouts on direct connection
requests, there were several cases where the open request could wedge
up and hang forever. It now sets a timer before attempting the open;
this effectivly provides our own timeout function.
Dave Brown of NCSC has discovered that the new NCP daemon doesn't work
properly unless the daemon user can execute /usr/net/etc/largedaemon
and can write on /etc/host_status. A new linkit now installs the NCP
large and small daemons as owned by daemon. Dist.Maint below changes
that and also changes the ownership of /etc/host_status. Don't try
the new NCP until you have done this!
compile: module found as compile
loadit: module found as loadit
acct.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/acct.h
conf.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/conf.h
dinode.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/dinode.h
ino.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/ino.h
reg.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/reg.h
seg.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/seg.h
tty.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/tty.h
user.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/user.h
text.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/text.c
malloc.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/malloc.c
hp.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/hp.c
rf.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rf.c
rk.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rk.c
rp.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rp.c
si.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/si.c
ht.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/ht.c
devstart.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/devstart.c
partab.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/partab.c
dhfdm.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/dhfdm.c
dz.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/dz.c
kl.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/kl.c
pty.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/pty.c
sys.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/sys.c
cr.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/cr.c
lp.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/lp.c
pc.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/pc.c
contab.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/contab.c
btest.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/btest.c
itol.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/itol.c
vdh_swabuf.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/vdh_swabuf.c
vdh_clock.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/vdh_clock.c
CKSUM.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/CKSUM.c
linkit: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/linkit
net_telnet.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_telnet.h
net_mcharset.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/net_mcharset.h
getdate2.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/getdate2.c
mailer.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/mail/mailer.c
if -r conf/m40.c rm -f conf/m40.c
if -r dmr/backc.c rm -f dmr/backc.c
if -r dmr/mem40.c rm -f dmr/mem40.c
if -r dmr/mem45.c rm -f dmr/mem45.c
if -r ken/util.c rm -f ken/util.c
if -r ken/utilA.c rm -f ken/utilA.c
if -r ken/utilB.c rm -f ken/utilB.c
if -r h/net/contab.h rm -f h/net/contab.h
if -r h/net/hosthost.h rm -f h/net/hosthost.h
if -r h/net/ncp.h rm -f h/net/ncp.h
if -r h/net/net.h rm -f h/net/net.h
if -r h/net/netbuf.h rm -f h/net/netbuf.h
if -r h/net/netopen.h rm -f h/net/netopen.h
if -r h/net/open.h rm -f h/net/open.h
if -r h/net/openparam.h rm -f h/net/openparam.h
if -r /usr/net/etc/smalldaemon su chown daemon /usr/net/etc/smalldaemon
if -r /usr/net/etc/largedaemon su chown daemon /usr/net/etc/largedaemon
if -r /etc/host_status su chown daemon /etc/host_status
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12-May-79 08:59:49-PDT,2697;000000000001
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 12-May-79 0859-PDT
Date: 12 May 1979 at 0337-PDT
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: incremental distribution log
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
The biggie this week is a new getty. Instead of having the tty initialization
data compiled into the program, this version reads the information from a file.
This means that the program can be maintained indepententally of the way that
ttys are actually treated. It is documented in getty.8 and ttys.info.5. The
only new feature that is available from the user's point of view is that if
hup is set in the initial flags, getty will hangup if no progress is made in
typing in the name (i.e., no name typed within sixty seconds). A prototype
/etc/ttys.info file is available upon request.
A new login continues this trend. It also supports the timeout feature if
hup was set for getty, or if hup is set when it was called. Hopefully, the
same sort of feature will be put in the shell shortly.
Dd has been modified so that if an of= option is present, the execution
diagnostics appear on the standard output. If no of= is present, the output
will appear on the diagnostic output. Errors encountered in the paramters
still are printed on the standard output.
A new version of newer.c that permits multiple sources to be specified for
a single object. It returns true if all of the sources are present and
either (a) the object is missing, or (b) the newest source is newer than
the object.
New drivers -- one for the floppy disk (rx.c) and one for the RL01 (rl.c).
The floppy driver has been in use at NOSC for a while now; the last bug
seems to have been eradicated. The RL driver has been run in a system
generated for SRI-TSC; it seems to have been successful.
A bug fix due to Sheldon Furst: if a connection bytesize was not eight,
the bytesize on the command link concerning that connection was incorrect.
doc/getty.8: module found as doc/getty.8
doc/ttys.info.5: module found as doc/ttys.info.5
rx.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rx.c
rl.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rl.c
kerbuf.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/kerbuf.c
io_buf.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/io_buf.h
compile: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/compile
archive: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/archive
linkit: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/linkit
install: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/install
smalldaemon.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpd/smalldaemon.c
getdate2.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/getdate2.c
dd.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/dd.c
getty.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/getty.c
login.c: module found as /usr/sys/s1/login/login.c
newer.c: module found as /usr/sys/s2/newer.c
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19-May-79 08:12:51-PDT,3692;000000000001
Mail from NOSC-SDL rcvd at 19-May-79 0812-PDT
Date: 19 May 1979 at 0320-PDT
From: greg at NOSC-SDL
Subject: incremental distribution log
To: /usr/net/ml.dist.people:
I suppose that all good things must come to an end. In this case, I have
been offered another job, and (assuming that a few minor thing can be worked
out) I plan to accept it. I have worked here eight years; I suppose it's
time for a change. Nalconites will immediately think of Doug Shannon and
his famous truck, but it's not that bad. My new job will be at NPRDC (another
Navy lab in the San Diego area) and my first job there will be putting their
PDP-11/70 on the ARPAnet. It is my hope that I will be able to continue doing
this distribution -- after all, it forces me to document what I'm doing and
any manager will appreciate that! I expect that there will be various disrup-
tions during the transition (for example, both this machine and the NPRDC
machine will be relocated in new buildings during the next few weeks), but
if we perservere, it will work out. My actual transfer isn't scheduled until
the first of July, so there's still time to do some of the things that need
to be done.
Several changes this week:
The definition of fsize in filsys.h and systm.h has been changed from a
signed to an unsigned quantity so that icheck (and others) will correctly
handle filesystems larger than 32765 blocks. (S1/icheck.c should be
recompiled.)
Ron Broersma and I have found the problem with the VDH driver -- it turned
out to be a hardware botch. The code has been fixed for the VDH11C (since
that interface permits the GO bit to be read); the problem is thought not
to affect the VDH11E.
It turns out that the FTP reply code to the mailer for "User Unknown" is in
the TRANSIENT error sequence (there is an involved explanation as to why this
is logical, but it is unexpected), so the change made last week will cause
the mail to be requeued, and another transmission attempt made on the next
cycle. A special check had to be put in to treat this as a hard error.
Acct.c has had the use of the Illinois queueing routines replaced by vanilla
V6 code to accomplish the same ends.
Dz.c has a bug fix due to Ron Kasik and Steve Schneller of NUSC-NPT; also the
various options have been parameterized.
Hp.c has some changes to handle multiple drives.
Rl.c had a typo; our thanks to Ken Harrenstien of SRI-TSC for spotting it.
Rx.c has the code for raw devices fixed.
Tm.c now treats EOF markers more rationally: reading an EOF returns EOF
instead of ERR (zero not minus one); reading past an EOF on a cooked device
returns ERR and the tape does not move; reading past an EOF on the raw
device is legal and opens the next file; positioning on close for the non-
rewind device now works correctly if you have just read an EOF. I'd like
to persuade the open routine to check for tape mounted/ring in on open,
but I've been sitting on these mods too long, so I'll have to leave that
for a later distribution.
Srvrdaemon.c (the small guy for the FTP server) has the pathname for spawn.c
changed into a relative name.
filsys.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/filsys.h
systm.h: module found as /usr/sys/h/systm.h
acct.c: module found as /usr/sys/ken/acct.c
hp.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/hp.c
rx.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rx.c
rl.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/rl.c
tm.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/tm.c
dz.c: module found as /usr/sys/dmr/dz.c
vdh.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpk/drivers/vdh.c
srvrdaemon.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/ftp-s/srvrdaemon.c
mailer.c: module found as /usr/sys/ncpp/mail/mailer.c
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