alt Hacker News> but ran into some hard to understand kernel bugs
Are the bugs in the original, or somehow artifacts of how we got it? (Or, phrased differently: Were these bugs present at the University of Utah in 1974, or are they "new"?)
> but ran into some hard to understand kernel bugs
Are the bugs in the original, or somehow artifacts of how we got it? (Or, phrased differently: Were these bugs present at the University of Utah in 1974, or are they "new"?)
That's the puzzling thing. i find it hard to believe they sent out an operating system that can't deal with multiple file systems. yet i can't get them to work correctly. The pre-v4 nsys kernel is another piece in the puzzle. it doesn't have pipes implemented yet but aside from that (i put them in) it also shows these "busy i" bugs, but even when running on a single disk. Maybe there's more i'm doing wrong there since it's running on the fs from the v4 tape. But that i'm getting such similar bugs in different situations suggests there is something wrong that i'm not seeing yet. gotta debug more.
If it turns out to be a timing-related bug it may be that the bug was much less obvious on real hardware.