Re: 2.5 Changes doc update.

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 12:25, Dave Jones wrote:

Nice work, Dave.

> - The bdflush() system call is still there and still just causes
>   the calling process to exit.  This strangeness is presumably there
>   to support people whose initscripts are trying to start the obsolete
>   'update' daemon. It's likely this will become deprecated and usage of
>   this will start logging messages to syslog.

This is now the case in 2.5-mm - bdflush() is deprecated and will print
a stern warning on use.

I suspect this will move to mainline shortly.

> Need checking.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Someone reported evolution locks up when calender/tasks/contacts is selected.
>   Further digging has revealed a change to the getpeername syscall changed
>   behaviour. See http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2002-October/005218.html
>   for a patch to ORBit.

Yes, Evolution is broken.  The problem is actually ORBit.  I have talked
to Elliot Lee about this and we are not sure whether it is the kernel's
or ORBit's fault.  I originally thought it was ORBit's, but it is
looking like the kernel's to be honest.  The behavior of getpeername()
wrt to sun_path seems to of changed.  If any networking hacker wants to
look into it, please do :)

In the mean time, you CAN fix the problem by patching ORBit.  I have a
patch and RPM packages available at:

	http://tech9.net/rml/orbit/

Which works just fine for me.

	Robert Love