HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 18:25:09 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
> Here is a shot in the dark:  doesn't a process have to be running as 
> root to use "chown"?  Elm is sgid mail.

So is Linus planning to add quotas to Linux, or is there some other reason
for this bogosity?  (Like "he didn't think of it" --- depends on whether his
experience is with BSD or System V.  Not intended to be an anti-Linu[sx]
flame.)  Insofar as I have been able to determine, BSD disk quotas are the
only reason BSD retains this particular bit of prehistoric behavior;
otherwise, the System V behavior (anyone can chown a file they own, but if
they aren't root suid/sgid will be cleared in the process) makes more sense.
All the other gets you is the need to use suid root on programs that
shouldn't need it (like mail)... and accurate (although, IMHO, largely
worthless outside universities) disk quotas.

(Yeah, somewhere in one of the standards, I think the Orange book stuff,
the BSD behavior is claimed to be a security feature.  It's a feature to
force programs to be gratuitously setuid root???  Whoever wrote that part of
the spec traded true security for a false sense of security.)

++Brandon

He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery     NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org

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From: torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
Subject: linux-0.99 patchlevel 2
Keywords: linux kernel, patch, 0.99.2, minor fixes
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:38:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: University of Helsinki

Yes, as you've probably noticed, it's now 1993 and I still haven't
released 1.0.  Sorry about that, and I have only another patchlevel to
offer.  The new kernel should mainly fix some of the keyboard problems
people have experienced, but does contain some other minor fixes. 

Linux 0.99.2 is available now at nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus
as both sources and diffs against 0.99.1 the diffs are essentially the
same as the second alpha-diffs I released for limited testing, with only
minor fixes to fs/exec.c and fs/open.c. 

Please try out 0.99.2: the more feedback (hopefully positive) I get on
it, the faster 1.0 will be out. 

Changes from pl1 are mainly:
 - pretty much rewritten low-level keyboard handling IO - this time
   actually trying to do it by the book.  It now handles resend requests
   from the keyboard etc. 
 - you can run executables from filesystems without bmap support.  This
   mainly means NFS and msdos.  Note that while it's possible, it's
   slower and less memory-efficient than using a "normal" linux
   filesystem, and should generally be avoided. 
 - /proc filesystem changes: /proc/kmsg can be used to log the kernel
   messages under X11 (instead of using the older system call to do the
   same), and there are changes to the statistics routines (WCHAN). 

+ various minor fixes (non-existent devices are handled better, some
changes to socket bind behaviour etc). 

		Linus
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From: peterson@minerva.prime.com (David Peterson)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: tinymush+tinyfugue binaries available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: tinymush tinyfugue binaries mud tcp/ip
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:57:02 GMT

I've uploaded a binary version of tinymush 2.0.9 to both tsx-11 and
sunsite.  Included are: 

	tinymush 2.0.9 binaries and runtime text files.
	tinyfugue 2.0.b2 binaries and runtime text files.

The original Linux binary version (2.0.8.p9) had a bug that would cause
the database to be eaten if you added more than 1000 objects between
reboots.  Please discard the old version and use this one instead.

tinymush-2.0.9-bin.tar.Z has been uploaded to:
	tsx-11.mit.edu:/incoming
	sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming

This is a binary distribution of TinyMUSH 2.0.9 and TinyFugue 2.0.b2.
Both work on Linux 0.98.1 with TCP built into the kernel.

All programs were built with the jump table 4.1 libc and the 4.0 libm.

Caution: make sure that the hostnames option is set to no in the netmush.conf
file, or mush will hang for about a minute whenever anyone connects.  For the
same reson, use numeric IP addresses with tinyfugue.  The included netmush.conf
file already has this change.  If the gethostbyname bug gets fixed (or you
don't mind the wait) you can turn hostnames back on.

Each connect generates two error entries in the log: 'NET/FAIL : (linger)'
and 'setsockopt: Protocol not available'.  Neither seems to affect the mush
in any real way.

tf was built to install into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib, the tf_install
script in the fugue-2.0.b2 directory does this.

The source to tinymush is available on:
	caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu(129.22.24.22):/pub/mush
	primerd.prime.com(129.122.132.150):/pub/games/mud/tinymush

The source to tinyfugue is available on:
        ferkel.ucsb.edu(128.111.72.60):/pub/mud/clients
        ftp.math.okstate.edu(139.78.10.6):/pub/muds/clients
	primerd.prime.com(129.122.132.150):/pub/games/mud/clients

The only change needed to get tinyfugue to compile under Linux is to add
-DSYSVTTY to FLAGS in the Makefile.
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From: Michael Caro <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Subject:  ANNOUNCE: xxgdb binaries uploaded
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: xxgdb, binary, debugger interface, programming, X11
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:12:50 GMT

   Hello Linuxers:
   I've uploaded xxgdb to sunsite as xxgdb.bin.TZ  as well as a support file
xxgdb.info.TZ which contains the app-default and man page.
   What the heck is xxgdb?  It's a interface for the Gnu debugger to use with
X11.  You need gdb to use this one, as it is only an interface, and not a
debugger in itself.  Please let me know if you have any problems with this one
I compiled it with libc.so.4.2 (Nov 29).
                                        Michael.
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From: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: procps
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: /proc, ps, process information
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:04:46 GMT

Well, I just ironed out a few more bugs in my proc-based ps, and added
a few more programs.  Still no documentation, but I'll get around to
snarfing and modifying that when I have a real internet connections
again...  Those who want to play, be my guests.

The latest (this does not included the fp bug, for those who noticed
the old one) is available, as
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z

New programs include: free, uptime, and tload, along with the old
standby ps...  Hopefully soon top and maybe w, and probably xload.

michaelkjohnson
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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile problem
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:03:27 GMT

I've now seen two compilation problem reports, and they both looked like
being due to bad include-file setups, probably due to a problem with the
SLS files. 

IMPORTANT! To get any linux kernel to compile, your /usr/include/linux
and /usr/include/asm directories should be symlinks to the linux
include-dirs.  If they aren't, correct the problem with:

	# rm -rf /usr/include/linux
	# rm -rf /usr/include/asm
	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm

After the above, cd to /usr/src/linux and do a "make dep ; make clean"
to make sure any changes in the header files will result in the correct
dependencies.  After this linux-0.99.2 should compile without any errors
(possibly a few warnings that you can ignore). 

		Linus


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From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: New channel "ANNOUNCE" on Linux-activists
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: channel announce
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut 
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:26:16 GMT

Being the control fiend that I am, I just created a new channel on the 
Linux-activists mailing list called "ANNOUNCE". Lars and I will mail 
the announcements that we approve for comp.os.linux.announce to this channel,
for those of you who don't get c.o.l.a or who'd rather your announcements in
e-mail digest format. Basically, there won't be any discussion on this channel.
It will only be a mirror of the bandwidth on comp.os.linux.announce.

Now, VERY SOON Lars and I will no longer be crossposting announcements to
comp.os.linux-- we'll ONLY post them to comp.os.linux.announce. There IS a
"LNXMANAGE" Fidonet echo for c.o.l.a, and if you don't get c.o.l.a on your
system, please encourage your news administrators to create it. If they won't
budge, then just join the ANNOUNCE channel of Linux-activists and you're set.

To join this channel, send mail to
	linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
With the line
	X-Mn-Admin: join ANNOUNCE

at the top (not in the subject). Right, Arl? :) 

Feel free to send me any questions/comments. 

Thanks,
mdw


-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern Computer Geek." --Tom Payne
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: New channel "ANNOUNCE" on Linux-activists
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: channel announce
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut 
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:32:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.032616.19105@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>Being the control fiend that I am, I just created a new channel on the 
>Linux-activists mailing list called "ANNOUNCE". Lars and I will mail 
>the announcements that we approve for comp.os.linux.announce to this channel,
>for those of you who don't get c.o.l.a or who'd rather your announcements in
>e-mail digest format. Basically, there won't be any discussion on this channel.
>It will only be a mirror of the bandwidth on comp.os.linux.announce.

Oh yes, and one other thing: the procedure for posting announcements is the
same, just mail them to 
	linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu
(some news software handles this automatically). Lars and I will handle the
details of sending the announcements out on the new channel ourselves.

mdw

-- 
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  "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern Computer Geek." --Tom Payne
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From: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GWM Patch for Linux
Keywords: X gwm window manager patch
Date: 23 Dec 92 11:57:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: University of Helsinki

There have been problems compiling gwm under Linux, because the
code uses some intricacies of lex which flex doesn't have.
I have rewritten the offending file, and sent it to tsx-11,
along with a couple of minor patches to make gwm compile.
All patches are against gwm 1.7n, which I assume is the latest
version.
The file is named gwm-patch.tar.Z and is likely to be moved to
pub/Linux/souces/usr.bin.X11 or the like.

Please note that this is NOT the complete source. The complete
source and binary will be uploaded some time in mid-January
by David Vickers.
Currently the gwm source should be available at quite a number
of sites. 

Note that for Motif emulation, you have to copy/move/link the
file mwm-typical.gwm.Mwmrc in /usr/lib/X11/gwm to system.gwmMwmrc

Enjoy,
	Olaf
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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: gcc 2.3.3 is on tsx-11.
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: gcc
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:41:52 GMT

This is the release of gcc 2.3.3. You have to use 0.97 pl4 or above
to run it. You have to have the Linux C library 4.2 installed
to use it.

You can get them from tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC.

File list

1. gcc233.TZ (cpp, cc1, cc1plus and version dependent header files.)

To run it, please do

gcc 

To use the old one, please do

gcc -V 2.2.2d

For i486 binaries, please check pub/linux/GCC/486.

H.J.
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
12/31/92



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From: holerbch@phoenix.princeton.edu (Uwe Hollerbach)
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: upload of dmalloc.taz to tsx-11.mit.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: debug malloc library
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:36:55 GMT


Greetings, Linuxlings!

I have uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu source code and a compiled library
of the debugging malloc package submitted to comp.sources.unix by
Conor Cahill about 1.5 years ago. It's called 'dmalloc.taz', and it
unpacks into a subdirectory called 'dmalloc'. I have made some minor
changes to the source code, mainly ANSIfication and removing some
prototypes here & there, to keep GCC happy.  This was compiled with
GCC 2.2.2d under Linux 0.99.1. I haven't actually used it yet under
Linux, but it did pass the tests that Conor included with the package.

Happy new year, all!
-- 
Uwe Hollerbach          uh@acm.princeton.edu  or  uh@alumni.caltech.edu
"In His infinite mercy, Allah does not subtract from one's alloted span those
hours which are spent in contemplation of net.news. All praise be to Allah."
-- an obscure commentator on the early work of Al-Khowariszmi
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From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
Subject: Ext fs programs version alpha 12
Keywords: extfs, efsck, mkefs, alpha 12
Date: 2 Jan 93 21:33:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: University of Helsinki


	The new release of the extended file system programs (efsck and mkefs)
is available by anonymous ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr [132.227.64.26] in the
directory /pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.  It should be available on tsx-11.mit.edu
soon.

	This new release (version alpha 12) fixes the following problems :
	- a minor bug in efsck has been corrected (thanks to Stephen Tweedie
	  <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>),
	- efsck and mkefs have been adapted to gcc 2.3.3 and libc 4.2 (the
	  previous version didn't compile with gcc 2.3.3/libc 4.2).

	This release is available in several forms :
	- efsprogs12.tar.Z : source and binary programs,
	- efsprogs12.bin.tar.Z : binary programs only,
	- efsprogs12.src.tar.Z : source programs only,
	- efsprogs.p12.Z : patch against version 11.

	Happy new year !!!


	Remy
	--
	Remy Card
	card@masi.ibp.fr
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From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: XT hard disk driver ALPHA-4
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:30:42 GMT

For those that use it, version 4 of the XT hard disk controller driver is 
available (or will be) on tsx-11.mit.edu and nic.funet.fi.

This driver essentially allows you to use XT style (8 bit) hard disk 
controllers under Linux. These controllers, while slow, have the advantage 
of using a separate set of IO ports and a different IRQ to normal AT style 
(or IDE) disk controllers, allowing them to be used in conjunction with 
them. This means that you can have up to 4 drives in one machine (however, 
you can only access all four under Linux).

If you have an old 8 bit controller and some old disk gathering dust, I'd 
appreciate it if you'd give my driver a go (and gain some disk space to 
boot <grin>) and let me know how it works (or not <grin>) for you.

The changes to this version should reduce the amount of CPU time absorbed 
by the driver and should allow it to work properly with Seagate ST11R/M 
controllers.

Pat -- Have a day!

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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: the Linux C library 4.2 is on tsx-11.
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: library 4.2
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:42:34 GMT

This is the release of the Linux C library 4.2. You have to
install the source code of 0.98 pl5 to use it since fd_set is changed
and it needs <linux/ioctl.h>. You don't have to use 0.98 pl 5 kernel.
But 0.98 pl 4 kernel is necessary. You also need gcc 2.3.3 or above to
use it.

Since kernel now has the 387 emulation, we don't need soft math library
anymore.

I was told this shared image work with older kernel (newer than 0.97
pl4). I have put libnet.a and librpc.a back into libc.a.

Please get the latest binutils.TZ from tsx-11.mit.edu if you cannot
get your binaries linked with the shared libraries.

You can get them from tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/GCC. The
file names are image-4.2.TZ, extra-4.2.TZ, gxx-2.3.TZ, inc-4.2.TZ,
jump-4.2.TZ and libc-4.2.TZ.

Please read ChangeLog for details of the bug fixes.

The file list:

1. image-4.2.TZ

  The shared images and libraries. To install it, as root do

  cd /tmp
  rm -rf ./lib ./usr
  tar xvvofz image-4.2.TZ
  cp -av ./lib ./usr /
  cd /lib
  ln -sf libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4

  If you have an early version of libc.so.4.2 installed, you may have
  to play with it, like
  
  cd /lib
  cp libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4.2.old
  ln -sf libc.so.4.2.old libc.so.4
  mv libc.so.4.2 foo

  before you unpack image-4.2.TZ. The iostream is in libc.so.4.2. But
  you have to use -nojump to use it since the external interface of
  iostream may change in the future.
  
2. extra-4.2.TZ

  libg.a and libc_p.a. To install
   
  cd /
  tar xvvofz extra-4.2.TZ

  libg.a is very big. I usually do

  cd /usr/lib
  ln -s libc.a libg.a

  since I usually do not debug the C library this way.

3. gxx-2.3.TZ

  libg++.a, g++-include and genclass. It is libg++ 2.3. To install

  cd /usr
  tar xvvofz gxx-2.3.TZ

  Iostream is in libc.a. To use it, you have to use -nojump
  or -static in your LDFLAGS.

4. inc-4.2.TZ

  To use the 4.2 header files, do

  cd /usr
  tar xvvofz inc-4.2..TZ

  /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux may be wrong. Please make
  a right symbolic link to each of them according to your Linux kernel
  source tree.

5. inc1229-4.2.TZ

  Change of the header files from 1129 to 4.2. It is in the testing
  directory.

  cd /usr
  tar xvvofz inc1229-4.2.TZ

6. jump-4.2.TZ

  There is also a file called jump-4.2.TZ for building the shared
  image for the C library 4.2. Please install image-4.2.TZ first since
  you need libgcc.a in it. The has been changed a lot thanks to
  dje@sspiff.cygnus.com (Doug Evans).

7. libc-4.2.TZ

  The source code of the Linux C library 4.2.

8. libc1229-4.2.TZ

  Change of the source code from 1229 to 4.2. It is in the testing
  directory.

9. ChangeLog

  Change log for the Linux C library.


Please fix the file permissions after you install it.


H.J.
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
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From: Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu>
Subject: Script for formatting msdos disks under Linux
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: mformat replacement, MS-DOS floppy, shell script
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:37:00 GMT

	I'm not exactly sure when, but mformat got broken somewhere along
the lines for me, and probably for many others. Here's a quick little
script that will format a floppy disk and do the necessary things to make
it a msdos filesystem, all without having to resort to using a certain
defunct operating system to do it. The general premise of operation is
extremely naive, after all, it's just a hack. It may be/probably is 
possible to get this script to naively create other filesystems.

	Before using this script, one must do the following things:

	mkdir /etc/msdos
	chmod 700 /etc/msdos
	
	For each disk type in (360 1200 720 1440 or nonstandard) that you
wish to support, pop in a formatted DOS disk of that size and run:

	dd if=(disk device) of=/etc/msdos/(disk size).b bs=512 count=1

	i.e., to grab the boot sector off a 720k disk, pop one in and run:

	dd if=/dev/fd0D720 of=/etc/msdos/720.b bs=512 count=1

	The script simply does three things:

	1. fdformats the device
	2. Zeroes out the first 10k of the disk to make sure the FAT and
	   root directory contain all zeros 
	3. Copies a DOS boot sector image to the disk's boot sector

	It works for me, your mileage may vary.

							-Craig
----- mkdosfs -----

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 0 ];
then
	echo "usage: $0 <device> [bootsector]"
	exit 1
fi
DEVICE=$1
fdformat $DEVICE | tee /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp
SIZE=`head -1 /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp | cut -f8 -d' '`
if [ "X$2" = "X" ];
then 
	BOOT="/etc/msdos/$SIZE.b"
#	BOOT=`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/\/dev\/fd//g | cut -c3-'
else
	BOOT=$2
fi
rm -f /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp
echo -n "Zeroing ... "
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE bs=512 count=20 &> /dev/null
echo "done"
echo -n "Writing $BOOT ... "
dd if=$BOOT of=$DEVICE bs=512 &> /dev/null
echo "done"
exit 0
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From: torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: linux 0.99 patchlevel 1
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: kernel, linux, 0.99 patchlevel 1
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:36:46 GMT

Linux-0.99.1 is now available on nic.funet.fi, and will probably show up
on the other linux ftp sites within days, unless everybody has gone off
for the holidays.  The directory is /pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus, and it's
available both as a patch against 0.99 and as complete source.  The
patch is pretty clean, although most people probably have changed 0.99
slightly to get rid of the setup and/or inode.c problems, so if you
have, you'll have to revert or patch by hand. 

Patch 1 addresses the following problems:
 - configuration. Hope there are no silly problems left..
 - inode.c: initialization changes (the missing NULL and some other
   minor fixes). 
 - some SCSI tape driver patches (Kai M{kisara)
 - tcp/ip patches (Ross Biro, some code by me)
 - keyboard patches (mainly changed initialization - hope the keyboard
   lockups are gone). 
 - completed /proc-fs: it should now contain all info needed by 'ps'
   (Micheal K Johnson). 
 - various minor fixes (the minix-fs link overflow checking etc)

Patch1 also contains support for extended VC switching - this is for the
upcoming X11 that understands VC's.  One result of this is that console
redirection now redirects *only* messages actually sent to /dev/console
(aka /dev/tty0), not just to any foreground VC.  Wait for Xfree-1.2 to
be able to switch VC's while under X (yes, including several X-sessions
active at the same time..).

I hope there are still people out there that aren't too busy stuffing
themself with turkey to try out a new kernel release.  There is just
over a week left of this year, and I need feedback in order to be able
to release 1.0.

		Linus

PS.  Thanks to everybody who has sent me Christmas/New Year/Birthday
cards.  Some contained money, some didn't, and I enjoyed them all. 
Thanks. 
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