Re: Linux-1.3.36

Peter K (pko@paradigm.co.za)
Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:11:51 +0200 (GMT+0200)


On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, Alan and I cleverly hid a extraneous line in the 1.3.36 linux kernel
> sources, just to check how alert you beta testers actually are. I'm sad
> to say that you don't seem to be very alert at all.. We had to fix it
> all by ourselves.

Hmmm, sad it is.

The way this bug manifested itself on my box was that I could not print
remotely to a Novell box running an lpd (in fact, it screwed up the lpd
so totally that the vlms crashed !). Yet telnet, rlogin, rcp, ftp, www,
etc, ran fine.

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