[1088] in Release_7.7_team
8.1.9 patch release for Suns and SGIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 19 22:30:01 1997
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:29:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
An 8.1 patch release for both Sun and SGI workstations is scheduled to
be deployed on Monday August 25. The changes are:
* The tty login program has been modified to correctly zero
out all of the password buffer, and has a locking fix on
Solaris.
* cleanup and the provisional Athena login library (and ergo
telnetd) have a (different) locking fix.
* talkd has a signal-handling fix.
* dvips -Pprintername now works.
* The AFS cache manager was upgraded to the July 1997 AFS
3.4a.patches release on both platforms. The primary
motivation for this upgrade is frequent lockups on Sparc 4
clients. We don't know if this upgrade will fix the
problem (and in fact, we have some inconclusive evidence
that it won't help) but it eliminates a variable.
* mh has been modified on Solaris to account for a vi bug
where vi may exit with a nonzero exit status even if the
editing session was successful.
* A bug has been fixed in gettime to make it time out
properly.
* The backing store has been disabled again on the SGI X
server. We don't think we need it for Autocad, and it
appears to cause workstations with some versions of the
graphics board to crash periodically (the "SGI blue line"
problem).
* The public workstation cleanup now does a chmod to make the
zip drive SCSI device accessible so that mtools can work.
