2.1.98 Netscape hangs and more

Alexander L. Belikoff (abel@bfr.co.il)
28 Apr 1998 02:34:57 +0300

Netscape shows the very same hangs in 2.1.98 as in 2.1.96. It stops
even repainting it's window. This happens usually during the
'Contacting ...' stage, takes about 3-5 minutes and results in some
weird message, like 'document contains no data' or 'connection
failed'. Next attempt to connect to the same location succeeds.

Again about the configuration:

- linux/i386 2.1.98, no SMP
- RedHat Linux 5.0
- ppp 2.3.3-2

Apart from that, a stupid question:

I was developing a toy filesystem module for 2.1.96 and was quite
surprised to notice, that if I register a filesystem with a NULL
read_super method and then I try to mount something using this FS, I
get a kernel oops on NULL dereferencing. The next time I try to mount,
the mount command hangs hard, so I cannot kill it at all.

Shouldn't there be some kind of sanity check? If yes, I'll submit a
patch...

Yet another stupid question: is anybody working on VideoCD support? If
yes, I'd like to join (not sure I'm prepared to do it on my own)

Regards,

-- 
Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg LP / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
abel@bfr.co.il


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