Hello managers,
last december, when we wanted to change to du-4.0a, we discovered a bug
within AdvFS, which was a "k.o.-criteria" for our upgrade-plans.
A Dec-Engineer (AdvFS development) could reproduce it, classified
it as a "showstopper" (whatever that *really* means) on 24-dec-1996 (!)
and told our TSC-germany on 14-jan-1997 that he has made the necessary
changes to the sources, will document it "now" and then a patch will be
made available for us...
Now it's 2 months later and the above status is still the actual status.
Aside from the info that this patch will be integrated within 4.0D
(this was the reason why i asked for the timeline of 4.0D weeks ago...).
And our hope that there will be a patch (a new consolidated AdvFS?)
for the other 4.* versions has still not been fulfilled yet...
Meanwhile the number of installations that use 4.0* versions and the
MIDAS-package for astronomical data analysis increases steadily and so
does the number of users being confrontated with that bug...
(it shows up with the use of lseek and write)
What shall i do? Are there others waiting for such a patch?
Shall i buy an HP-machine?
(I've heard they can handle partitions on disk now ;-)
With regards,
Bernt Christandl
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Received on Thu Mar 13 1997 - 13:39:46 NZDT