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    [PATCH] Linux-0.99.9 (April 23, 1993) · 3579bc6f
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Bill's math emulator now passes paranoia.
    
    Last argument to ioctl is "long".
    
    sys_clone() appears.
    
    [original announcement below]
    
    The latest kernel release is 0.99.9, and can be found on nic.funet.fi:
    pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus, both as patches relative to pl8 and as full
    sources.  The only major new feature is that the ST-0x driver has
    finally been updated to the scatter-gather code: ST-0x users should with
    luck get about 5 times the performance on disk-operations..  Seagate
    code written by Drew Eckhardt.
    
    0.99.9 also fixes:
    - the FPU-emulator should now handle all rounding-modes correctly, and
      pass all the paranoia package tests.  Patches by Bill Metzenthen.
    - bootup enhancements by Chrisoph Niemann (but the SVGA mode numbers
      have changed, so you may have to edit your lilo configuration file
      and/or the main Makefile to get the mode you normally want)
    - ext2fs updated to the very latest release.  Code by Remy Card and
      Stephen Tweedie.
    - various minor patches, some of them cosmetic, some of them fixes to
      smaller bugs..  Thanks to everybody who sent them in (even though not
      all made it)
    
    It might be a good idea to test it all out,
    
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