Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:31:35 +0000 (GMT)


> : o Run two processes that keep rejoining multicast groups on an
> : SMP box - crash
>
> Actually, this bug sits in hundred of places over networking.
> I was obliged to repair it earlier, when it was less painful :-(
> The patch is set of one-liners.

Excellent

> : o Tulip driver/fast routing stuff needs to be resolved. If they cant
> : be merged the default tulip should be a current one.
>
> They can be merged and they have been merged, but I am still nervous
> about driver correctness.

I think in that case the default should be tulip.c 0.89H and the fast routing
faq/config option whatever can say where to get the supertulip driver..

> : o fchmod on AF_UNIX sockets doesnt work like BSD
> It works like linux-2.0, right?

Yep. Its not a real issue. It kind of escaped from my working notes

> Actually IPv6 calls it in correct context.
> set_multicast_list must be bh protected, otherwise it is not
> serialized wrt transmission. It is all another calls that
> are made from wrong context now. I have patch.

Ok

Alan

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