Re: installed 1.3.90 version reporting error.

Shane R. Stixrud (root@nebula.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:43:27 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Jon Tombs wrote:

> Shane R. Stixrud said:
> >
> > I compiled 1.3.90 and installed it and it still reports 1.3.89? Has
> > anyone else had this problem? I thought it was just the patch i got so i
> > downloaded the whole source tree and the same thing happend. So i dunno.
> > The kernel size changed so I know its the patched 1.3.90.
>
>
> This is all a cunning plan(TM) by Linus, he was beginning to believe that
> nobody was using his daily patches (read his latest patch announcements to see
> what I mean), so the 1.3.90 kernel includes this simple but very very
> effective "mail linus if you install 1.3.90" trick. I think he should by now
> be sufficiently impressed by his faithful patch followers to not have to repeat
> this plan for a while, not before 2.1.89 anyway.
>
> --
> Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>

Hahha

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