wondering when/whether our 3.3.2 will arrive ...

[Bob Green]

The following text is an extract from the release notes of
4D1-3.3.2.  I hope you find it useful:

Bob Green




       4.  Bug Fixes

       This chapter describes bug fixes to Installation, IRIX,
       Networking, Graphics, 4Sight, X11, Fortran, 4DDN, Power
       Fortran Accelerator, and Emacs.  A Silicon Graphics software
       change request (SCR) number appears with some of the bug
       fixes in this chapter.

       4.1  Bug Fixes to Installation

          +o The distcp command in 4D1-3.3.1 was not able to copy
            data from tapes to file systems.  

          +o The installation of maintenance releases on diskless
            clients would fail to link and copy all of the needed
            files resulting in a nonfunctional system.  

       4.2  Bug Fixes to IRIX

          +o A possible (but unlikely) system crash on a VGX could
            occur when doing certain shared process operations that
            involved copying data down to the graphics pipe.  

          +o A user could incorrectly raise the maximum amount of
            lockable pages per user above what the user previously
            specifically configured.  

          +o A user program could inadvertantly inherit another
            program's address space due to translation problems
            associated with shared address processes when those
            processes shrunk their virtual space.  

          +o A deadlock could occur in the system when forking a
            process that had a lot of locked memory.  

          +o A resource counting bug could occur when locking pages
            and getting interrupted.  

       4.3  Bug Fixes to Networking

          +o Use of netgroups could cause standard utilities like
            select and id to dump core due to a NULL pointer being
            returned by the getpwent() routine in libbsd.a.  

       4.6  Bug Fixes to 4Sight

          +o The 4Sight copyarea primitive could cause portions of a
            screen to display incorrectly depending on the
            overlapping of windows.  

          +o Icons for the windows of NeWS clients could disappear
            under other windows when stowed.  

          +o The 4Sight version number was changed from 1.5 to 1.51
            to reflect the changes in functionality from the
            previous bug fixes.  

       4.7  Bug Fixes to X11

          +o SCR 9517 - The X11 server would return the wrong
            dimensions on 14" monitors.  

          +o SCR 9951 - Xfig labels did not display.