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From: pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: batch scheduler
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 03:08:47 GMT

i need to build an RPC based batch server to maintain a
distributed queue of another RPC based server.
by now there must be plenty of work done in this area.
in fact, doensn't Sun have something developed?

-- 
-- Pat Monardo		What is the cause, what the reason
-- pjm@cshl.org		for the manifestation of a smile?
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,uk.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI-2 50 D-Connectors for Disks on Sun ELC
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:44:27 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

In article <Bs5vGA.Jyw@fulcrum.bt.co.uk>, igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
> 
> From our days as purveyors of Unix systems to the gentry, we have a
> large collection of assorted parts laying about the place.  

You'd better stop them before they start breeding, or you'll have squillions
more assorted parts cluttering up your office.

----

Stephen Wilcox             |   Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.
From: mledwar@afterlife.ncsc.mil (M.L. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Popd and Popper problem
Keywords: pop popper pcnfs mac
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:05:57 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Jul23.202439.1969@animal.er.bell.ca> squevill@stam.qe.bell.ca writes:
>John Horgan wrote about problems running popd and popper on the same Sun server.
>
>Same problem here, starting the popd gives:
>
>popd: bind: Address already in use.
>
>Anyone can help?
>
Try 
      cat /var/spool/mail/.whomever >> /var/spool/mail/whomever
      rm /var/spool/mail/.whomever.pop
      cp /dev/null /var/spool/mail/.whomever.pop
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: pgf@space.mit.edu (Peter G. Ford)
Subject: Re: Can you run a CD ROM on a Sun 3 running SunOS 4.x.x?
Reply-To: pgf@space.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:40:06 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.192412.26919@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>
>We'd like to upgrade a Sun 3/60 to 4.1.1, and we were wondering if
>we can run the Sun CD ROM drive off of it using a SCSI adapter.  We
>don't have the drive yet (it's going to be borrowed) and we will use
>it for our Sun 4's ... since we can't experiment, we'd like find out
>from anyone who's tried.

Yes, easily. However, if your CD-ROM disks use the ISO-9660 format with
extended attribute records, you must first install a patch in your SunOS.
Look in the src/SunOS.4.x.CD-ROM.patch file in the anonymous ftp server
space.mit.edu for the apprpriate adb commands.

Peter Ford
MIT Center for Space Research
NASA Planetary Data System Microwave Subnode
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Can you run a CD ROM on a Sun 3 running SunOS 4.x.x?
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: Curious Goods (formerly Louis Vendredi Antiques)
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:24:12 GMT


We'd like to upgrade a Sun 3/60 to 4.1.1, and we were wondering if
we can run the Sun CD ROM drive off of it using a SCSI adapter.  We
don't have the drive yet (it's going to be borrowed) and we will use
it for our Sun 4's ... since we can't experiment, we'd like find out
from anyone who's tried.

gld
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gary L. Dare				Elections 1992-93:
> gld@cunixD.cc.columbia.EDU		* Jean Chretien (Canada)
> gld@cunixc.BITNET			* Perot^H^H^H^H^H Elvis! (USA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (hillel.e.markowitz)
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Organization: AT&T Federal Systems
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:43:44 GMT

In article <1843@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>People here use OW 3.0. They turn on scrollbar on shelltool, the use file
>manager. Result: /tmp gets filled with megabytes of trash like:
>
>-rw-------  1 maxwell      8064 Jul 23 08:56 Text11572.0
>
>etc. But then accumulated from weeks. Since these diskless workstations share
>a disk partition on the sever for their root partitions, we end up with
>surprisingly little room on / for everybody.
>
>Why doesn't OW remove the suff when it is done with it? Note that stopping and
>restarting OW doesn't help. It is just old stuff that isnot removed and will
>not be removed unless you do it by hand.
>
>-- 
>wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my employer.
>(+31) 2154 84415/(+31) 35 833539  || Support the League for Programming Freedom!
>	"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
>	Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".


I would say that putting the following crontab (or similar) should
be enough.  After all, cleaning up once a week should be sufficient.

5 4 * * 6 rm -f /tmp/*

Of course this assumes that nobody leaves anything important on
/tmp.

Hillel Markowitz        H_Markowitz@att.com
From: abao@sunwise (Angela Bao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Max open files per process?
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:13:35 GMT
Reply-To: abao@sunwise.hac.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Hello Sun Netters,

	Under csh, the 'limit' command gives you a list of some
resource restrictions, one of which is the "descriptors" is set at
64.  This indicates that the max. number can be opened at one time by
one process is 64.  I know I can use the limit command to increase it.   
However, you need to do that in everyone's ~/.cshrc.

	What I want to know is, is there a kernel variable that
stores this limit?   ie:  can I change some variables in the /sys/*/*.h
files so when I rebuild a kernel, that limit is automatically set
for every user?

	thanks in advance.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
#include <std.disclaimer>   |	Angela Bao -- Hughes Aircraft, CA
			    |	abao@atr-2s.hac.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: kent@ziggy (Kent Tse)
Subject: Booting PS/2's from PC-NFS network
Keywords: PS/2, PC-NFS, network booting
Reply-To: kent@ziggy.cs.mcgill.ca (Kent Tse)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:10:42 GMT

     Hello everyone,

          I don't know if this is the right newsgroup, but ...

     The setup:

     We have 20 IBM PS/2's Model 35 with RPL Ethernet cards that we
     need to boot over the network from a Sun server running PC-NFS.
     Currently we only have version 2.0 of PC-NFS.  It has been
     indicated that it can be done and that's all we have been given
     so we are turning to the net for help.  We need this to work
     within a month because the new semester is about to begin.  Any
     help, comments, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

     Please e-mail me at (kent@ziggy.cs.mcgill.ca) and I will
     summarize to this group.

     					- Kent
-- 
Kent Tse			E-Mail:  kent@cs.mcgill.ca
Systems Programmer		Montreal, Quebec, Canada
School of Computer Science	McGill University
(514) 398-6697	
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3401 comp.unix.misc:3063
From: sgccses@citec.oz.au (Stephen Spence)
Subject: OPENWIN Ver2 - problem with window manager
Organization: CITEC
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:49:46 GMT

Hi,

I have moved onto a sun SPARCstation 1+ recently from a DEC 5000/120
The DEC ran twm.
The problem is this -

I used to run an xbiff (mail display) from a third party machine onto the DEC.
This was OK because it used to change the mail flag upand down when required.

I now run the xbiff to the SUN and it does not change the mail display.
When I issue a screen refresh - this changes the mail display.

1) can I display anything without the window manager ?
2) does this particular window manager require some form of input?

I have set up .Xresources to include my xbiff.

Please mail me direct
thx

-- 
Stephen Spence                |  
CITEC                         | There is no excuse for being a wuss
Australia                     |
612 07 227 6971               | You are just not trying HARD enough.
sgccses@citecuc.citec.oz.au   | 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck)
Subject: Re: adjtime(2)
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:17:56 GMT

ken@bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) writes:
>Q1: Is the time adjustment amount in an adjtime(2) call added to any
>    remaining adjustment from a previous call, or does it supercede
>    it, replacing it as an absolute value?

>    If it is cumulative, I need to know the remaining value so that I
>    don't blindly whipsaw the clock around when trying to make an
>    adjustment when a previous one is still taking effect.

>Q2: Is the adjtime(2) call known to not work as advertised?  I'm
>    running SunOS 4.1.1 on a ss1 and SunOS 4.0 on a 386i.

If you are trying to keep in sync with an external real clock on a SunOS
system you should use adb to patch the variable "dosynctodr" to be zero.
If you don't, SunOS will keep trying to sync with its battery calendar
chip.

A1. Calls to adjtime(2) should supercede  earlier calls.

A2. I built the 4.3bsd "timed" on 4.1.1 on a SPARCstation2 ... and adjtime
    seemed to work for me.  I have no idea why you always see the previous
    adjustment as zero.  Here is a little program I wrote once to play
    with adjtime:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int
main(argc, argv)
	int	argc;
	char	**argv;
{
	struct	timeval	new, old;
	time_t	now;

	if (argc > 2) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [ adjustment ]\n", argv[0]);
		return 1;
	}
	new.tv_sec = (argc > 1) ? atoi(argv[1]) : 0;
	new.tv_usec = 0;

	if (adjtime(&new, &old) == -1) {
		perror("adjtime");
		return 1;
	}
	if (argc == 1 || old.tv_sec != 0 || old.tv_usec != 0)
		printf("Old adjustment was %d.%.6d\n", old.tv_sec, old.tv_usec);

	if (argc == 1)
		adjtime(&old, &new);

	return 0;
}

-Tony Luck <aegl@ossi.com>
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3299 comp.windows.x:14279
From: parasoft@kastor.ccsf.caltech.edu (Parasoft GmbH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x
Subject: Is there an X11R4 server for the Tadpole Sparkbook?
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:45:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Does anyone know if there is an X11R4 server (commercial or public
domain) for the TadPole SPARKbook? please reply to
bryan@elephant.parasoft.com Thank you

bryan
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Can I get rid of "ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.foo.bar ..."
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:33:28 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.

Alternately, link with -Bstatic.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
From: ken@bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: adjtime(2)
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:27:26 GMT
Organization: Planet Earth

I've got a realtime source of what, for my purposes, can be considered
the "correct" time.  I'm trying to use the adjtime(2) system call to
adjust the time on a ss1 and a 386i to match what I'm seeing in the
data feed.

The man page says that adjtime(2) will return the amount of any remaining
adjustment from a previous call in the timeval struct pointed to by
the second arguement.  I _always_ get zeroes returned in this
structure, even immediately after setting an adjustment that has not
had time to take effect yet (as verified by checking the system time
before and after.)

Q1: Is the time adjustment amount in an adjtime(2) call added to any
    remaining adjustment from a previous call, or does it supercede
    it, replacing it as an absolute value?

    If it is cumulative, I need to know the remaining value so that I
    don't blindly whipsaw the clock around when trying to make an
    adjustment when a previous one is still taking effect.

Q2: Is the adjtime(2) call known to not work as advertised?  I'm
    running SunOS 4.1.1 on a ss1 and SunOS 4.0 on a 386i.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 00:12:08 GMT

In article <CKD.92Jul23233441@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>HEM> == hillel.e.markowitz  <hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com> 
>
> HEM> I would say that putting the following crontab (or similar) should
> HEM> be enough.
>
> HEM> 5 4 * * 6 rm -f /tmp/*
> HEM> Of course this assumes that nobody leaves anything important on /tmp.
>
>Like their /tmp/.X11-unix/* sockets for example?  
>
>More than one person has found something breaking after a similar
>crontab was installed.  

"rm -f /tmp/*" won't delete either files with names beginning with ".", or 
subdirectories. So the OW stuff is safe from the above command on both counts.

Now, if you say "rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.[0-z]*", *then* you have problems ...
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Compilers for install (was: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?)
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:52:27 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Originator: news@auspex-gw.Auspex.COM

>Re the recent flamefest over unbundling C: Sun's decision to unbundle
>Fortran was the best thing that ever happened to it.  Does anyone
>remember f77cvt, the preprocessor that was needed to translate VAX
>Fortran (a usable language) into the yukky, unusable, ANSI-standard 
>glop that was all the BSD Fortran compiler could handle?
>Thank goodness Sun decided to write their own compiler.

Well, actually, Sun'd "written their own compiler", in some sense,
before they unbundled the FORTRAN compiler; they'd put their own back
end on it, and their own optimizer on it, even though the front end was
still basically Berkeley's variant of Stu Feldman's front end.

And, at least at one point, when I was at Sun I took at look at the
source to one version of the UNbundled compiler, and the front end
still looked very much like Feldman's "f77"s front end....

Dunno if they subsequently threw out the old front end and wrote a new
one, or put the VAX and Cray FORTRAN syntax into the old one.

So I don't know how much the decision to unbundle FORTRAN had to do with
the decision to improve it.  And even if they *had* thrown out and
rewritten the front end, that wasn't a *necessary* consequence of the
unbundling; the unbundled C compilers have front ends that are, I think,
derivatives of the old bundled C compiler's PCC front end, and AT&T's
SVR4 ANSI C front end, respectively, for the non-ANSI and ANSI versions.

Besides, they didn't unbundle the VM system, and they still decided to
rewrite it, so unbundling is probably neither necessary or sufficient
cause to rewrite something.
From: stathop@danae.csi.forth.gr (Costas Stathopoylos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: MCP controller driver for SUN4/280 running SunOS 4.1.2
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:37:37 GMT
Organization: FORTH - ICS, P.O.Box 1385, Heraklio, Crete, Greece 71110 
       tel: +30(81)221171, 229302 fax: +30(81)229342,3 tlx: 262389 CCI

HI,

We are planning to replace our old Sun3/280 running SunOS 4.0.3 with
a SUN 4/280 running SunOS 4.1.2 .
The replacement also includes porting our Sunlink MCP controller 
(now on SUN 3/280) to the new machine (Sun 4/280).

Can anybody tell me which is the driver version for the
MCP controller for the SunOS version we have?
Will [6.7 88/06/28 SMI] do or a newest version is needed?


Thanks in advance,
Costas.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: >4 modload(8)able drivers in SunOS 4.1.[12]?
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:14:14 GMT

Other than adding more vd_unuseddev slots to the end of cdevsw[] in
/sys/sun/conf.c, is there any way to accomodate more than four
simultaneous modload(8)able drivers on a SunOS 4.1.[12] system?  Or
does even that approach work (I haven't tried it yet myself)?

It would be nice if the kernel config file could say "options VDDRV8"
or something along those lines.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mccoll@cse.uta.edu (Roddy McColl)
Subject: Network Software Bug Patch request
Keywords: nres_gethostbyaddr
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:08:19 GMT


I know this is pretty much a FAQ but which patch gets rid of those 
annoying network function bugs like :

% visual syslog: nres_gethostbyaddr: enet-gw.pa.dec.com != 16.1.240.15

I'm running 4.1.1 GFX Rev 2

Thanks

Roddy McColl.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?  (re: vi)
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:12:25 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo

wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew) writes:
|Thanks to all who mentioned gcc on the catalyst CD.  I'm still
|waiting for the fiscal year to roll over so that I can buy a CD
|drive.

well if you just want gcc you can ftp it from uunet.  however if you
don't have a cd drive you can't run solaris2 anyway.

-- 
pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms (Bitnet)
opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Can I get rid of "ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.foo.bar ..."
Date: 24 Jul 1992 16:27:17 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Jul24.075143.27487@fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
>You can install the 4.1.2 libc on the 4.1.1 machines.

I would be very nervous about doing this.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Can I run SunCore on 4.1.2?
From: liuj@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:28:05 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

My SunCore program was compiled on 4.0.3. I couldn't run it on 4.1.2. The
machine complains "ld.so: libcore.so.0: not found". I need help.
From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
Subject: xman (won't recognize app-defaults file)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 01:44:41 GMT

Xman, version 3.1.4
Sun 3/80
Sunos 4.1.1
OpenWindows 2.0 + libXaw & libXmu

If I invoke xman with the -notopbox option, either on the command line
or in my ~/.Xdefaults file, it seems to work without problems.  Xman
without the notopbox option produces the small opening window with the
`Help' and `Manual Page' buttons disabled, and a `No App-Defaults File'
warning -- even though I have an Xman file installed in $XAPPLRESDIR.
All I can do with that window is Quit.

I've RTFM, and played with the Xman defaults -- so far without luck.
I'd welcome suggestions for Xman defaults or other changes so I can
use the initial small window.

Thanks.
-- 

				Ronald Florence
				ron@mlfarm.com
From: noh@cs.umd.edu (Sam Hyuk Noh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun 4/670MP
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:28:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

Is anyone out there willing to send me some technical
documents on the Sun 4/670MP.
If so, here is my address:

Sam H. Noh
AV Williams Bldg.
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Colleg Park, MD 20742

I also have some questions about the machine.

1. Is it possible to execute a single job (process)
 on multiple number of processors it has?

2. If the answer to question 1 is yes, then 
how does one do this? 
	If the answer is no,
then is there a way to take advantage of the
extra processors to shorten the execution time
(eg forking ...)?

3. If we need to explicitly fork processes
how is this done (a concrete example would help)?
Then, if we were to measure the execution time
how do we make sure that the process that we
forked terminated?


Thanks.

-- sam noh (noh@cs.umd.edu)
From: stmckenna@nap.amoco.com (Stephen T. McKenna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: stmckenna@nap.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco Research Center


In article 92Jul23233441@loiosh.eff.org, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>HEM> == hillel.e.markowitz  <hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com> 
>
> HEM> I would say that putting the following crontab (or similar) should
> HEM> be enough.  After all, cleaning up once a week should be sufficient.
>
> HEM> 5 4 * * 6 rm -f /tmp/*
>
> HEM> Of course this assumes that nobody leaves anything important on /tmp.
>
>Like their /tmp/.X11-unix/* sockets for example?  (I think screen and
>the Emacs emacsclient and gnuclient packages also put sockets there...)
>
>More than one person has found something breaking after a similar
>crontab was installed.  (They probably installed it because of OW :-)


It's not just OW; Sunview cmdtools leave their backing files there too
(usually they get emptied on exit though).  Nothing deletes them unless you
do it yourself using cron.  But you're right, it's a bad idea (I know from
experience...) to delete sockets and some other things from /tmp.  Also I
like to let things go a day or two without being accessed before I just nuke
them.  Here's what we use:

10 0 * * * find /tmp \( -type d -a -name .\* \) -prune -o ! -type s -atime +1 -exec \rm -fr '{}' \;
15 0 * * * find /tmp /var/tmp -type f -size 0 -atime +1 -exec \rm -fr '{}' \;
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.0 slower than 1.0
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:04:07 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>It's possible
>that the SVR4.3 implementation of the Berkeley fast file system has
>some significant performance (and reliability) problems.  If Sun ported
>the same code, they might have inherited the same problems.

Do you really mean "SVR4.3"?  "SVR4.3" isn't out yet, as far as I know;
SVR4.2 is the last one I heard announced.  Is "SVR4.3" the "Enhanced
Security/Multiprocessing" (ES/MP)" release?

Or are you referring to the UFS in early SVR4.0-vintage releases?  I've
seen occasional notes that those early versions did have a buggy UFS
implementation.

If it's the early SVR4.0-vintage release, I've no idea how it managed to
get those problems; it started out as an early-stages SunOS 4.1 UFS
implementation (no FFFS), with some tweaks for the slightly-different
SVR4 VFS mechanism (minor cleanups). 

I suspect Sun's version differs more from said early-stages 4.1
implementation than the vanilla SVR4.0 one does; AT&T/USL may or may not
have picked up the Tahoe stuff (then again, as of SVR4.2, the BSD file
system may be on the way out, in favor of the Veritas one that is, I
think, the standard file system in SVR4.2 - yes, it has long file
names), and Sun presumably multi-threaded the file system for MP support
(AT&T probably didn't do that until the first MP SVR4 release).

If it's more like SVR4 ES/MP, I don't think Sun's picked that release
up, at least not yet.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: ken@startek.com (Ken Descoteaux)
Subject: Re: Better keyboards for Sun4
Organization: Star-Tek, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:02:30 GMT


I hope you find an answer in your search for a comfortable keyboard.
In the future I'm sure you would find one.  Product liability suits
have already been brought against some equipment manufacturers
(including keyboard manufacturers) because their lousy ergonomics lead
to repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome.  Given the
ubiquitousness of keyboards, the potential liability exposure for a
keyboard producer is huge. I'm sure that we'll see redesigns as soon
as a few cases are decided.

Meanwhile you might want to make sure that your work area is properly
set up for using a keyboard. If the table & seat are correctly
adjusted you'll agravate the pain...

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