Date:  Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:27:15 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: 06192003 kernel updates on IBM Testcase

From: "Mark Dodel" <madodelDESPAM at ptdprolog.net> 

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/

"This contains fixes since xr_e002/xr_m015/mcp/acp. Important note: If you
use the OS/2 SES facility, you need a new sesdd32.sys dated April 2001 or
later to use this kernel. Also, a matching dump formatter (df_ret.exe),
provided separately, is required, if you want to analyze a dump from this
kernel."

[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them.  Please send any followup to
comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet.  Also note that files are only on IBM's
testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to try these get them now.   Make
certain you back up any files replaced and don't try these on a production
system.  Read any readme file before applying any changes.  If your system
is working well, and you have no problems addressed by these updates, do
yourself a favour and don't mess with this.  You have been warned.  

The UNI and SMP files are for WSeB/ACP/eCS Pro (SMP kernel) and the W4
files are for post FP15/MCP versions, including eComStation.  Only use the
SMP kernel on a machine with more then one CPU.

Here are the latest changes in this version, as posted in the readme file.
 (See the Readme for a complete listing):

Bug Fixes:

     04/16: Added test fix for trap 000e in _ldrSegFixAddIterRec
           - *May* have fixed some strange program load behavior with the
	     implementation of the latest JR15038 fix.

Fixes to problems that exist in released code:

  20030415 14.093h
       - LDRSTACKOPT back out. It caused too much confusion and I'm not
100%
         sure about its stability. Sigh.
       - Some enhancements to the ".pb" command in the dump formatter
  20030501 14.093i
       - I kept forgetting to take out the code that closes file handles >
2
         before starting PROTSHELL. The good news is that doing the close
	 reduces the number of leaked file handles by a few in some systems.
	 The bad news is that it also makes PMDD$ trap on boot on other
	 systems. So, if that happened to you with 14.093h, get this kernel.
	 As of now, add CLOSEFILES=TRUE if, like me, you need the changed
	 behavior (in my case, Microsoft C 6 kept aborting).
       PJ29180  Trap 000E while taking a process dump
  20030620 14.093i1
  	- don't use this one. I put it out by accident due to packaging bug.
  20030621 14.094
  	- nothing new, but this is the first "official" (i.e. one where we'll
	  actually have full source code control) in a while. It leaves out
	  the CLOSEFILES keyword, though.

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