On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:17:24 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: >Hello. > >Stas Sergeev wrote: >>> To my great surprise dosemu used the serial port >>> when invoked as root. >>> Is there a changelog anywhere I can look at? >> Currently it doesn't seem to be available >> anywhere other than in a source tarball itself... >Ah, not quite. 1.1.3 changelog can be found here >(accessable from a "File" section at SF): >http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=81489 >But you need a changelog for 1.1.2 which is here: >http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=82399 >The logs for 1.1.3.2 doesn't available however >(not a big deal I think). > >The particular entry you need is this: >- removed restriction to have to run (suid)-root in serial.c > for creating the lock file
Thanks for the pointer to the changelogs. I would not have thought that the modem wouldn't run if the device was not locked. I didn't realize I had such an old dosemu at version 1.0.2 but guess I was trying to avoid the development versions. Think I should try 1.1.3? Larry Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
