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-Patches to plptools-0.6, collected by Matt Gumbley
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-
-1) Compilation patches to enable builds on Solaris. ftp.cc and ppsocket.cc
-2) Christof Meerwald's patches so that ncpd can autoterminate (-e option), and
- patch for mgetty PLP autodetection (in the new patches directory), also a
- patch to make the connection more stable.
-3) Peter Cherriman's patch which fixes the "one hour out" bug, which "...is that
- a file timestamp is sometimes different when you do a "ls -l" on a mounted
- psion, than the timestamp listed by the properties box on the psion.
-
- My previous fix, no longer worked when the daylight saving changed. Linux
- stores timestamps internally as the number of seconds since the EPOC in
- UTC(GMT). However the psion seems stores timestamps as the number of seconds
- since the EPOC. However the EPOC in defined relative to the currently set
- timezone on the psion.
-
- My new fix takes into account the timezone and DST status provided by the
- linux system, it now works in by GMT(UTC+0) and BST(UTC+0+DST), but I
- haven't tested it very much in other timezones, but I think it works.
-
- It provides the correct timestamps apart from files created within a hour
- of a DST change, however this can't be helped due to the strange way the
- psion stores timestamps and handles timezone and DST."
-4) Added --with-mountdir option to configure to allow the plpnfsd mount point
- to be specified at build time. Default is /mnt/psion.
-5) Added /dev/psion at the start of the serial ports probed for.
-6) Peter Cherriman's patch that fixes compilation of ftp.cc on some platforms.
-7) Jim Hague's patches for SIBO, and later Linux Kernels, from Feb 2000.
- My apologies to Jim for not merging these sooner. He says:
-
- "I've been doing a little work on getting plptools working with my 3a. ...
- I have plpftp working for file transfer and plpnsfd also working, at least
- sufficiently to back up my 3a.
-
- I have also modified the include files required for the Linux build so
- that it works with a 2.2 series kernels with the NFSv3 patch applied;
- actually, all I've done is copy the relevant bits of the old NFSv2 headers.
-
- It all seems to work with my 3a, though compared to p3nfsd plpnsfd seems
- very slow at listing directories - when time permits I shall take a
- closer look.
-
- In addition to my English 3a (v3.22F) I have also tried it on an Italian 3a
- (v3.40F). The latter exhibits some curious behaviour - if you start ncpd,
- run up plpftp and quit plpftp, the 3a closes its serial port down (drops
- CTS and DSR) and seems to need a reset before it will re-open the serial
- port. Again, when time permits I shall see if it does this when using
- PsiWin."
-
- Other parts of Jim's patch:
- "Which reminds me - 0.6 doesn't seem to have working copyFromPsion and
- copyToPsion. I've fixed it up and tidied up the retrieval of Owner
- Infomation a little - 3as anyway send lots of \0\0\0\0\0, each of which
- was being displayed in plpftp as a blank line. "
-
- Jim's patch removes lots of diagnostics in the rfsv16 code, and looks like
- it fixes lots of stuff I hadn't got round to <hides head in shame>.
- Splendid.
-
-Last patch update: 18/07/00.
-