[848] in Zephyr_Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Feb 16 11:21:45 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:21:35 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Karl Lehnberger <kjl@rzg.mpg.de>
Cc: zephyr-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[847] in Zephyr_Bugs"
Where did you get a copy of zephyr 2.0.2? 2.0.4 has been the most
recent version since June of 1996.
> 1. Are there any efforts to develop zephyr in the future?
Hopefully. I haven't been putting much time into Zephyr because I
have too many other things to work on, but with any luck I'll get ack
to it or someone else will be put on it.
> 2. Where can I get the newest binaries or source?
athena-dist.mit.edu:pub/ATHENA/zephyr/dist
> 3. Which systems are supported (all I find in config.guess)?
We don't have a list of supported systems. Zephyr is intended to be
portable to almost any reasonable Unix system with Berkeley sockets,
but you may experience problems on platforms where it hasn't been
tried before.
> (Is there any intention to make zephyr for Windows/NT?)
There's work being done on a Zephyr client for Windows NT, but nothing
has been released yet. No work so far on the server.
> 4. Can you send me a list of known bugs and problems of the newest
> version, so it's easier to decide whether we will install it?
I don't think there are any new bugs in the newest version. The known
bugs I have written down (which is probably not an exhaustive list)
are:
* There are reported conflicts between <sys/uio.h> and
<termios.h> on HP/UX.
* ulong doesn't always get defined properly, leading to
problems in zwgc.
* The server IP authentication check is poorly thought out and
should probably be removed (it causes problems on
multi-homed or misconfigured clients).
* The "give me the default subs" server request doesn't work
due to an error in some code reorganization.
* During a brain dump between servers, access checking is
turned off on subscriptions.
I don't have any particular insight at the moment on your specific
problems (although you should try Zephyr 2.0.4, of course).
