Move to gawk-3.1.0.

1 files changed, 87 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/README_d/README.solaris b/README_d/README.solaris
index 0b0fb6a2..24adee88 100644
--- a/README_d/README.solaris
+++ b/README_d/README.solaris
@@ -1,28 +1,9 @@
-Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999
-
-There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under
-Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to
-above 256.  This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be
-less than 256 (see fdopen(3)).
-
-IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine.
-
-Arnold Robbins
-arnold@gnu.org
-----------------------------
-From dragon!lehman.com!carson Fri Feb  7 01:12:09 1997
-Return-Path: <dragon!lehman.com!carson>
+Solaris Problem #1:
+===================
 From: carson@lehman.com
 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:05:58 -0500
-Message-ID: <199702070605.BAA09185@dragon.lehman.com>
 To: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu
 Subject: Solaris 2.5.1 x86 bug in gawk-3.0.2
-Reply-To: carson@lehman.com
-Status: R
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-
 
 awktab.c has the following bogus logic:
 
@@ -47,3 +28,88 @@ Carson Gaspar -- carson@cs.columbia.edu carson@lehman.com
 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~carson/home.html
 <This is the boring business .sig - no outre sayings here>
 
+	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
+
+Solution to Problem #1:
+=======================
+Tue Oct 20 21:25:11 IST 1998
+
+This has been fixed in 3.1.0 with the bisonfix.sed script.
+
+Arnold Robbins
+arnold@gnu.org
+
+Solaris Problem #2:
+===================
+Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999
+
+There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under
+Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to
+above 256.  This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be
+less than 256 (see fdopen(3)).
+
+IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine.
+
+Arnold Robbins
+arnold@gnu.org
+
+Solution to Problem #1:
+=======================
+From: Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu>
+Subject: Re: gawk-3.0.4
+To: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
+Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:09:05 -0400 (EDT)
+
+Dear Aharon:
+
+Toda raba. Why don't you add something like that to README_d/README.solaris
+file:
+
+for the SunOS do in
+
+/bin/sh:   ulimit -n 256; ulimit -a; make test
+/bin/tcsh: limit descriptors 256; ulimit -a; make test
+
+otherwise "make test" will fail
+
+Shalom, Paul
+
+Aharon Robbins wrote to Paul Nevai:
+# >From the README_d/README.solaris file:
+# 
+# 	Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999
+# 	
+# 	There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under
+# 	Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to
+# 	above 256.  This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be
+# 	less than 256 (see fdopen(3)).
+# 	
+# 	IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine.
+# 	
+# 	Arnold Robbins
+# 	arnold@gnu.org
+# 
+# Double check your settings with ulimit; I suspect that this is
+# your problem.
+# 
+# Thanks,
+# 
+# Arnold
+# --
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+
+
+
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