Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:21:19 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Do not use stock RedHat 6.0 kernels with SMBFS! |
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On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > The Windows 95 Bug Workaround forces "ON" some protocol > hacks to work around bugs in Windows 95. The code for this hack > is in the kernel even if this option is disabled. If the option > is disabled, the bug workaround is "OFF" by default but can be > enabled with a mount time option. If the Windows 95 Bug Workaround > is enabled when the kernel is compiled, this code is forced "ON" > with no way to disable it. This code is strictly for Windows 95 > shares and causes havoc with Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 98 > shares.
Then surely this option should be removed from the makefiles immediately. Why does this option exist at all? (Apart from hysterical raisons, which don't count.)
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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