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Date: 10 Nov 1994 16:59:25 -0500
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NOVELL ENGINEERING SUPPORT BULLETIN - UPDATE 1.1.3
Enclosed is a current view of the features and fixes
provided in UnixWare Update 1.1.3. Although we do not
anticipate any major modifications, this list is subject
to change. UnixWare Update 1.1.3 is scheduled for early
availability on the ftp sites before the end of the year.
Usha Pulijal
Project Manager
Novell UnixWare Engineering Support
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1. Introduction
These notes describe the Update 1.1.3 release for the Novell
(R) UnixWare (TM) Personal Edition, Application Server,
Software Development Kit, and other Novell UnixWare add-on
products.
Update 1.1.3 is a cumulative release consisting of
the features that were provided in Updates 1.1.1 and
and 1.1.2, as well as features that are new in
Update 1.1.3.
Update 1.1.3 will correctly install on UW1.1, Update 1.1.1,
and Update 1.1.2. Removal of Update 1.1.3 will restore the
system to it's previous state. For example, if Update 1.1.3
is installed on an Update 1.1.1 system, removal of
Update 1.1.3 will restore the system to Update 1.1.1.
1.1 Features
Update 1.1.3 provides new functionality and enhancements in
the following areas:
- Novell Virtual Terminal (NVT2) support
- Performance enhancements
- Merge enhancements
- New video drivers
- Numerous improvements
2. Update 1.1.3 Software Notes and Recommendations
This section details the features and improvements provided
by Update 1.1.3. Only those features that have not been
provided in previous updates are discussed here.
2.1 Features
2.1.1 Novell Virtual Terminal (NVT2) Support: The NVT2
protocol establishes terminal connections between DOS
workstations and UNIX host systems by guaranteeing packet
delivery and providing connection-oriented services. NVT2
provides the same functionality as NVT, but uses SPX for
connection-oriented services rather than the NVT protocol,
which is built on top of IPX. By using SPX for transport
and session control, NVT2 provides improved file transfer
and security capabilities. Compatibility with NVT clients
is also provided.
Each NVT2 connection requires an SPX connection. NVT2
servers advertise remote login service and listen for SPX
connection requests on the advertised socket. NVT2 clients
query for and discover remote login servers, and initiate an
SPX connection to the advertised listener socket. The
listening NVT2 server accepts the connection and begins a
terminal session on a new SPX socket (distinct from the
listening socket). The client and server now exchange data
over the connection.
2.1.2 Performance Enhancements: Novell, working with Oracle
and Compaq, has prepared a report on UnixWare performance
that is available in a TPC-B Full Disclosure Report, an
audited performance report published and distributed by the
Transaction Processing Council.
Performance enhancements such as 4 MB page size for Pentium
processors, and raw I/O performance improvements to the
Compaq IDA driver and sd01 target driver, have been included
in Update 1.1.3.
2.1.3 Merge Enhancements: Merge allows you to run DOS and
Windows (and their applications) simultaneously with
UnixWare. UnixWare Update 1.1.3 includes release 3.1.2 of
Merge. This release provides numerous quality and
performance improvements, such as more robust keyboard
handling and virtual terminal switching, expanded DOS
support, increased graphic performance, and faster NetWare
access.
2.1.4 Video Drivers
The following new video driver is available:
- P9000
- Diamond Viper Video Card (Weitek P9000) VLB model
2.1.5 Ethernet Upgrades: An upgrade to the following
Ethernet driver is available:
- el3: 3COM (R) Etherlink (R) III (3C579) Network
Interface Card (NIC)
2.2 General Improvements
2.2.1 Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs): These PTFs are
applied automatically when you install the update. Please
do not attempt to apply them again after you have installed
the update.
NOTE: After the update is installed, pkginfo will still
report that these PTFs are installed on your system, even
though the update has superseded them. You should not
attempt to remove these PTFs from your system after the
update is installed.
ptf 135 Problems with UnixWare update installations when an
el16 driver is installed have been fixed.
ptf 144 The slave side of a pseudo-terminal subsystem (pty)
now supports tcgetattr.
ptf 147 The iaf module no longer refuses login connections
when minor numbers greater than 255 are used.
ptf 148 A number of improvements have been made in support
of token ring networks. These include: The DLPI and
OSI token ring drivers now support packet sizes up
to 8K. The locally administered addresses (LAA)
feature is now supported. Problems that caused the
network to hang when the token ring cable was
disconnected have been fixed. Problems that caused
a panic in tokunitdata have been fixed.
ptf 149 Telnet into a machine where a sender and receiver
process are communicating via UNIX domain sockets
no longer causes communication problems.
ptf 150 The who command no longer gives incorrect state
information for devices greater than 12 characters.
ptf 152 Problems with file locking on Xenix and NUC file
systems have been fixed.
ptf 160 After a connection attempt over TCP is aborted,
subsequent connection attempts to that server will
no longer fail.
ptf 174 The localtime function no longer causes problems
with process size.
ptf 185 There is no longer a panic after use of the
icmp_send routine.
ptf 192 An error in the pullupmsg() routine, which was
causing corrupted messages, has been fixed.
ptf 605 Overall UnixWare performance has been enhanced for
Database Servers. Features such as support for the
Pentium 4Meg pages, raw I/O performance
improvements, and miscellaneous kernel refinements
have been added. (See the section on ``Performance
Enhancements'' above.)
ptf 607 The interface to the Arcnet DLPI driver has been
added to NPSD, and the IPX driver has been modified
to handle the Arcnet header information.
ptf 610 Async I/O transfers of 16 KB blocks are now
allowed.
ptf 615 The IDE disk HBA support no longer issues seek
commands, which eliminated job timeouts, install
failures, and corrupted reads on certain Maxtor and
Connor IDE drives.
ptf 617 Tektronix emulation is now supported in xterm.
ptf 618 The asyc driver no longer leaves RTS high after the
device is closed; RTS is now dropped when DTR is
dropped.
ptf 621 IDE disk drive parameter translation (parameters
which define heads as greater than 16) is
supported. Drives requiring this are usually
greater than 500 MB. Some vendors refer to this as
Logical Block Addressing (LBA). To install on
systems with a disk using this capability, use the
boot floppy provided with ptf 621.
ptf 624 The UnixWare mail command and the sendmail.cf
(configuration file) have been modified to allow
sendmail and the UnixWare mail command to work
together. The ismail variable is now checked
before parsing arguments to the mail command,
indicating whether the program was run as mail or
as rmail.
ptf 625 Problems with the mipx driver have been fixed; the
message ``A file server could not be found'' is no
longer generated when a new Merge session is
started.
ptf 627 The MCA SCSI controller with mcis driver now
recognizes tape drives.
ptf 629 syslogd can now process information from remote
systems.
ptf 631 The IDE/ESDI HBA driver (athd(7)) supports more
thorough error recovery to recover from transient
read failures.
ptf 636 Problems with the NumLock and Shift keys in X
windows have been fixed.
ptf 646 PPP now retransmits a PAP packet if no response is
received from the remote end.
ptf 648 Problems with UnixWare update installations when an
el3 driver is installed have been fixed.
ptf 652 There are no longer problems with clicking on icons
and moving windows when the NumLock key is active
with Motif Window Manager (mwm).
2.2.2 Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- The Desktop now comes up properly when csh is the login
shell and the European Language Supplement package is
installed.
- Problems with applications that used the GetError
functions have been fixed.
- Additional menus under the X window manager have been
translated for European locales.
- Using the space bar to select an icon now works
properly in European locales. Other keyboard mapping
problems have also been fixed.
- The default permissions given to new Desktop users are
now more restrictive regarding mounting privileges.
- Problems with installation of Type 1 fonts from DOS
diskettes have been fixed.
- Problems when using the GUI to add more than 10
packages on tape or disk have been fixed.
2.2.3 Printing
- The lp command -o options for length, copies, and pages
are now processed correctly.
- The lp driver now checks printer status during the open
routine.
- The European Language Supplement package now supports
the IBM Proprinter, EPSON ESC/P, Canon Bubble Jet, and
Hewlett-Packard Deskjet printers.
- The banner page now prints international characters
properly.
2.2.4 Networking
- setuname now changes the hostname in all necessary
files, so there are no longer problems starting up
during the next reboot.
- PPP now responds with a NAK to any authentication
protocol request it receives that is not supported.
- PPP usage no longer causes inetd to loop.
- The in_cksum routine no longer generates incorrect
checksums that can cause TCP retransmissions.
- Problems with the NIS address resolver have been fixed.
2.2.5 Drivers
- Systems using both the asyc and asyhp drivers are now
supported.
- The asyc and asyhp drivers no longer have receive
overrun problems at 19,200 baud.
- DMA flags are now set correctly for async I/O with
adse, adsa, mcis, and fdtb drivers.
- A number of enhancements have been made to the ODI core
package. These include: a fix pertaining to the Eagle
NE1500 and compatible network cards; a fix to the token
ring source routing module to fix problems with the
token ring bus mastering cards; and addition of ODI
APIs to support additional ODI HSM drivers such as
HP27247B, Proteon token ring, etc.
2.2.6 File Systems
- File compression now works properly with files on an
NFS mounted file system.
- File systems mounted with the nosuid option now execute
setuid programs with the correct privileges.
2.2.7 Miscellaneous
- There is no longer a limit on the number of environment
parameters allowed by make.
- pkgtrans has been added to the base operating system.
- Problems with the LD_BIND_NOW environmental variable
have been fixed.
- The valid_login() routine no longer allows . and .. as
login names.
- The maximum number of sockets on a server has been
increased to 200.
- The cpio command now produces the correct exit status
codes.
- The userdel command will no longer remove the home
directory if it is a system directory such as / or
/bin.
- The sort command now works properly with accented
letters in Spanish locales.
- Login names with ``log'' as the first three characters
are now allowed.
- Minor problems with cron have been fixed.
- Calls to connect() no longer return unnecessary EAGAIN
errors; instead, the connect() code will retry the
connection.
- Problems with the socket.h include file have been
fixed.
- The pcnfsd command now verifies NIS users.
- There is no longer a 35-40 second delay during SPX
communication with the UnixWare X server.
- There are no longer problems with core dumps from ld
stating that ld is not checking the return values from
mmap.
- Problems where the BNU recovery scenario would lock up
a modem have been fixed.
- There are no longer problems with icon installation if
the home directory where the icon is being installed is
a symbolic link.
- Problems with floating point expressions involving the
?: operator have been fixed.
- Problems with the extended backup service have been
fixed.