Subject: poeigl 1.11 available [was: Re: linux 0.99 patchlevel 6]
From: [email-masked] (Peter Orbaek)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 16:52:43 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

[email-masked] (Linus Torvalds) writes:

>0.99pl6 is mainly a syncronization release: it fixes a few bugs and
>changes the behaviour of 'vhangup()' to be more standard.  The vhangup()
>changes will break some init/login stuff that depended on the earlier
>incorrect behaviour - not everybody may want to use pl6 until you are
>sure your init/login will work happily with it.  Better do these things
>before 1.0 than to break it later. 

I read Linus's post, biked home with the patches, built a PL#6 kernel
and tested version 1.11 of my package. With the patch that Linus himself
sent me, it works on both PL#5 and PL#6.

Poeigl 1.11 should replace all older versions on the ftp sites, now that
parts of the old version do not work with the newest kernel anymore.

To those that do not know, the poeigl package contains init/getty/login
programs and other utilities.

There have been some changes since version 1.7; the vhangup code
in login.c have been changed by patches from and discussions with

  Anthony Rumble <[email-masked]>, Linus Torvalds, 
  and Steven S. Dick <[email-masked]>.

  Rick Faith sent me man-pages to several of the programs.

  Sander Van Malssen <[email-masked]> provided a patch
  for getty so that it understands certain escape codes in /etc/issue

  Ed Carp provided a patch for simpleinit regarding /etc/TZ.

My thanks to all of them.

I have uploaded poeigl-1.11.tar.Z to

	ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source/
	nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/incoming/
	tsx-11.mit.edu:/incoming/
	sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/

	- Peter.
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Peter Orbaek <[email-masked]>
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