Hi Christian, >> - handling of floppy before disk is inserted / unformatted partitions
>> - initdisk CHS geometry fix and BSS init fix from RayeR >> - int 21.1c non-FAT / non-existing drive handling fix from Tom > If anyone wants to contribute to discussions about this patches > he can do that now. I guess I should first re-send the patches somewhere for discussion? Or should I just upload them to SVN already? The latter is probably easier, in particular as I do not expect real bugs here anyway... >>> - Terminating self-owning PSPs (parent PSP field set to the PSP) Okay okay so paste your diff -u for inthndlr.c and task.c again and we can discuss it... As usual, minimal patches are preferred :-). >>> - CALL 5 interface is broken, and probably crashes the system. >> Note that only CP/M programs use this, software from the seventies. > > Yes, and DOS is mainly software from the eighties and nineties ;-) > >>> The Assembly code in entry.asm that handles such calls is screwed Same as above - paste a diff for that one, too. Be aware that the entry.asm stack layout is sort of critical so I would prefer to get any type of comment from any of the old experts before sticking the CP/M-ish call 5 fix into the stable branch. Maybe it could also be added only to the unstable branch first? I think one of the problems with your original patch was that it made the stack footprint bigger so if you can modify your patch to avoid/reduce that side-effect...? >>> - The seek position (and various other fields) of the SFT isn't declared >>> as unsigned. Eric reported that the seek function reports errors using >>> negative return values. This has to be changed so that it can work with >>> files up to 4 GiB... Indeed - several functions will have to pass a pointer to an extra return status argument to work around this complication, but on the other hand, the patch will still not be very complex, I hope. Maybe it can also be an alternative to support files up to 3.999 GB and leave a small range of values reserved for error codes? Also depends on which of the methods has which impact on kernel size and speed? >>> since the actual seek operation never returns errors in MS-DOS I seem to remember this point from an earlier discussion yes... Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
