Linux 2.2.4

Phaid writes "As if you weren't already being flooded about this, linux 2.2.4 is out. Here's the official Announcement from The Man Himself. There's a small problem with BSD Process Accounting that can be easily fixed with the patch. " You know the routine-go get'em.

Comments

How long until the 2.2.x series is considered done

[Baddog]

2.2.x will never be 'done' until 2.4.x or 3.0.x comes out - development is a continuous process. Other than the (somewhat embarassing) BSD process accounting compile bug, 2.2.x is extremely stable, much more so than early 2.0.x kernels were.

Even if all bugs were removed from the kernel, there would still be new releases to add features and drivers. Frequent updates are what keep Linux on the cutting edge.

technical question?

[mmorin]

Hi,
I had some problem mounting the NFS.
If everything (as in my case) is relying on NFS, it couses all the accounts to freeze.
My problem was that everything was exported as read-only
The solution I found is
on the /etc/exports add the parameters:
(rw,no_all_squash)

I hope this helps.

BTW, where can I find some info on the NFS development status ("minor changes" is not enought)?
Massimo

The "Bladerunner release"

[Jakester]

"2, 2, 4. And noodles" Decker

debs

[bluehell]

those guys are quite quick: get the newest kernel-debs on netgod.net!

Error and fix

[korpiq]

The next mail in that thread said following, and guess what? At least I had to apply that patch to get it to compile. Assume a 2.2.4-oops soon as The Man returns from vacation.


Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:35:04 -0500
From: Arvind Sankar

acct.c: In function `sys_acct':
acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close'

Should the second parameter be NULL? (guessing wildly after looking at binfmt*)

Yes, here is the fix

--- linux/kernel/acct.c.~1~ Tue Mar 23 16:14:01 1999
+++ linux/kernel/acct.c Tue Mar 23 16:34:55 1999
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@
}
if (old_acct) {
do_acct_process(0,old_acct);
- filp_close(old_acct);
+ filp_close(old_acct, NULL);
}
out:
unlock_kernel();
return error;
out_err:
- filp_close(file);
+ filp_close(file, NULL);
goto out;
}