vmodem / virtual comport segfault
Hello.
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Stock usermode 1.0.2.1 binaries
I came across this problem in the archives, amd the only suggestion I could find was to upgrade the linux kernel.
That's because the suggestion to upgrade your dosemu was repeated
so many times, people are tired to repeat this all over again:)
It is useless to report bugs for
the 1.0.2.x versions here. This version is out of support.
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./dosemu: line 386: 4308 Segmentation fault $BINARY $MAINARGS "${par[@]}" 2>$LOG
For us, using the 2.5 unstable series of kernel is not possible - but surely there must be some way of getting things to work under 2.4 current?
Sure. 2.4.20 is known to be rather dosemu-friendly (quite a lot of work was done in that area).
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P.S. Also, I tried the development version of dosemu, but couldn't get it to work (even without vmodem - it had a configuration file error of some sort).. though thanks to the archives, I think I know what I need to do to make it work now.. guess I will have to give it a try later..
Right. The cure is to upgrade to 1.1.4.15.
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though would really prefer to stick with stable versions if at all possible.
There are several definitions of the word "stable". You may expect it to be a synonym of the word "reliable", however it is not the case here. It is "stable" because the code base was not changing for years (bugs were not get fixed etc). So in case you need a reliability you have to upgrade.