Re: Ext2 patches

Chip Salzenberg (chip@atlantic.net)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:23:30 -0500


According to tytso@mit.edu:
> I submitted to you ext2 patches just before 2.1.90, and I
> assumed that you did't get to them before 2.1.91 was released. So I
> shipped you new ext2 patches right after 2.1.91, and was very disturbed
> to find that 2.1.92 was released without the patches.

But you still haven't made the necessary changes for the code to be
correct on the i386. A "long" expression, shifted right 32 bits,
has no defined value. The patch you gave introduced a couple such
shifts.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg                - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I brought the atom bomb.  I think it's a good time to use it."  //MST3K

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