4 Sep
2020
4 Sep
'20
8:34 p.m.
Happy to announce that I have found and fixed the bug in the DECnet code
in RSX that could cause operations like "SHOW KNOWN NODES" to skip some
nodes under some circumstances.
So anyone getting node definitions from MIM can now safely do that using
NCP (in VMS), or NNS (in RSX) and be sure they do get the complete list.
For anyone using RSX, this is another component you want to update. The
file in question is [5,54]NMVACP.TSK, and you can copy it from MIM::
Place it in that directory, and you're good after the next reboot.
If you want it fixed on your running system, then after copying the file
over, do the following two lines:
REM NMVACP
INS LB:[5,54]NMVACP
and then you are good.
If anyone wants to know itty gritty details on the bug, let me know and
I can explain it. But suffice to say for now, that this bug was
introduced with the nodename server in RSX, which I think only came in
M+ V4.6.
Johnny
On 2020-08-27 02:16, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2020-08-27 01:47, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, now you know you aren't. :-)
? Johnny
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On 8/26/20 4:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
The thing is - some of the bugs and issues I've worked on are rather
obscure. You might occasionally observe there is something funny going
on, but understanding where the problem is, and finding the fixed file
on MIM is not always so easy, nor how to apply it.
Take MCR, for example. There are multiple things I've fixed. Both in
MCR... and ...MCR (they are two different things). And applying them
needs that you update things through VMR. Can't be done on a running
system. (Well, ...MCR can, but MCR... cannot.)
My TCP/IP package already does that patch for you however, so you should
be good.
Hey, here is something for people to look at, to make you aware of
things you might be interested in: MIM::US:[BQT]FIX.TXT contains all the
work I've been doing for a possible future V5.0 release of RSX-11M-PLUS.
A lot of those fixes apply just fine also for V4.6, but don't ask about
the subdirectory stuff. That is just too complex to patch up, and there
are still a couple of corners I'm not done with.
Let me put it this way. If any tool causes you
any problems, first
check if there is something newer on MIM, and if so - grab and test
that.
If not, let me know, and I can probably fix it.
?? I'm sure I speak for all of us here when I say THANK YOU for this. And while
I'm on it. At the moment there is a long standing bug in
NICE on RSX, which have been annoying me slightly for a long time,
but which is now starting to become serious enough that I need to
look deeper into it. If you do a "NCP TELL MIM SHOW KNOWN NODES" the
list is incomplete. If you look carefully, some nodes are missing,
which will be there, if you explicitly ask for them.
This becomes a larger problem because if someone on a VMS system does
an "NCP COPY KNOWN NODES FROM MIM ..." they will not be getting the
full list either. And the same goes for RSX users using NNC to copy
the known nodes from MIM.
?? Ah-HA!!? I have seen exactly this.? I thought I was losing my mind.