[coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.3-pre1

[Dan A. <da...@gm...>]

Hello,

After two days of intensive coding, I'm releasing this pre-release. The 
reason for is that although it appears to be working, I'm not finished 
cleaning it up, so I might missed some real issues. 

The files for this release on sourceforge were added to the 0.5.2 
release in order to avoid attention from stray users :)

Here are the list of changes:

* Version 0.5.3-pre1 AKA "flamed chicken"
  * Fixed a BSOD bug (thanks Richard Goodwin for the memory dump stacks)
  * No longer depending on the Microsoft DDK for the build (review 
    doc/building), (thanks Nir Perry for the encourgement)
  * The daemon launches the console by default when it is launched (can be 
    turned off with '-d', see '-h').
  * The daemon is killable just like a normal Windows process. Doing so stops 
    the Linux machines cleanly (from Windows' standpoint), so feel free 
    to close the window, end the task, CTRL-C, etc.
  * It no longer depends on the Microsoft DDK for the build.
  * An almost complete rewrite - we now use message passing instead of 
    hardwired ioctls(). Only the daemon communicates with the driver. The 
    console and the network daemon communicate with the daemon using a 
    named pipe.
  * Fixed the block device bug that fsck triggered (thanks Daniel Glockner)
  * Hopefully addressed the network corruption issue (thanks Daniel Glockner
     again)
  * Boot parameters are now passed to the kernel. Make sure you update your 
    XMLs with 'root=/dev/cobd0' if you still want to boot from the first 
    block device. 
  * The conet daemon is a separate process (shouldn't affect you).

	
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Dan Aloni
da...@gm...