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V4.4.10 Release Notes, 12/01

DYNIX/ptx® V4.4.10 Release Notes

Document Version

Chapter 1: About This Release

Software Compatibility

  Supported System Software and Layered Products

  Supported Layered Products That Are No Longer Provided

  Retired Products

  ptx/AGENT SDK No Longer Available with ptx/AGENT

  Unsupported Software

  Standards Compliance

  Unsupported Platforms and Devices

  COFF Compatibility Development Environment Has Been Removed

Software Installation

Operational Restrictions

Contents of the V4.4.10 Release

  edb Debugger Changes

  Public Software No Longer Provided With DYNIX/ptx

Contents of the V4.4.9 Release

Contents of the V4.4.8 Release

Contents of the V4.4.7 Release

  Support for eXtended Kernel Virtual Address Space

  Support for the edb Debugger

  Errata for the DYNIX/ptx V4.4 System Recovery and Troubleshooting Guide

Contents of the V4.4.6 Release

Contents of the V4.4.5 Release

  NUMA-Q 1000 Systems

    VTOC for Root Disk

    Software Upgrades

    Set Up Crash Dumps

Contents of the V4.4.4 Release

  Support for New Quads on NUMA-Q Systems

  Increased Physical Memory Support on NUMA-Q Systems

  Application Region Manager

  Support for 18-GB Disks

  autoBoot Flag on NUMA-Q Systems

  New Memory Dump Option for NUMA-Q Systems

  Support for European Union Monetary Unit

  Changes to the Kernel

    New BUFCACHE_MAX Tunable Parameter

    Message Queues on NUMA-Q Systems

    Tune Kernel Memory-Allocation Pool Attributes

    Manufacturing Kernel Now Provided

  Changes to the ptx/C Compiler and Programming Tools

    Enhancements to the cc Compiler

    Enhancements to ld

    Enhancements to lint

    nm(1) Man Page Clarification

  Changes to Commands

    New upsmon Daemon

    Modified Commands

  Changes to System Calls and Library Routines

    New shmgetv() Routine for NUMA-Q Systems

    New Routine for Obtaining the Time of Day

    New Process-to-Process Attachment Facility for NUMA-Q Systems

Contents of the V4.4.2 Release

  Enhancements for C2 Security

  Changes to the Disk Subsystem

  Changes in the Handling of Kernel and User Priorities

  New ptx/SPDRIVERS Product

  RPC Callbacks Are Now Disabled

  Year 2000 Problems Have Been Fixed

  Workaround for Intel Pentium CMPXCHG8B Bug

  SCSI Starvation Avoidance and Command Queueing Are Enabled

  Changes to Commands

Contents of the V4.4.1 Release

New Features in the V4.4.0 Release

  Support for 16 GB of System Memory

  C2-Level Security

  Process Migration

    Automatic Process Migration

    User-Requested Process Migration

  Multipath Devices

  Shared Devices

  Additional Peripheral Support

Implementation Changes in the V4.4 Release

  Autoconfiguration and Device Naming

  System Booting

  Kernel Parameters

    New ENABLE_VLM Parameter

    NMOUNT Parameter

    BUFPCT Parameter

    NABUF Parameter

  Fibre Channel Changes

  Devices

    Device Names

    Creation of Device Nodes

    Disk Partitioning

    Default VTOCs

  Core Dumps on NUMA-Q Systems

  New Dumplist Format

  usrlimit Password Is Now Set Automatically

  Requirements for Login Names

  New and Changed System Files and Directories

    Location of /usr

    New Security Parameters in /etc/site_secp

    Changes to File Permissions

  Changes to the ptx/C Compiler

  Changes to Secure RPC

  Commands

    New Commands

    Changes to Commands

  System Calls and Library Routines

    SI86MEM Command Is Now Obsolete

    New System Calls and Library Routines

    Changes to System Calls and Library Routines

New Features and Implementation Changes in the V4.3.0 and V4.3.1 Releases

  Support for New Platform

  New Software Installation Procedure

  Custom Miniroot

  Changes to Devices

    Disk Partitioning and VTOCs

    Pass-Through Drivers

    Onlining and Offlining Devices

    Disk Formatting

  Kernel Configuration

    Kernel for NUMA-Q Systems

    Kernel Parameters

    maxRSS Is Now Tunable

  Filesystems

    New Memory Filesystem

    CDFS Filesystem Now Includes Rock Ridge Extensions

  /etc/constab File Has Been Removed

  Changes to ptx/ADMIN

    Software Management Menu

    Set Bootflags and Strings Option

    Printer Management Menu

  Commands

    New Stand-Alone Commands

    New Operating-System Commands

    Changes to Commands

  System Calls

    New System Calls

    Changes to System Calls

  Library Routines

    libxio Is Obsolete

    New Library Routines

    Changes to Library Routines

DYNIX/ptx Documentation

Chapter 2: Fixed Problem Summary

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.10 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

  edb Debugger

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.9 Release

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.8 Release

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.7 Release

  Fast Patches Superseded by V4.4.7

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

  edb Debugger

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.6 Release

  Base Operating System

Fast Patches Superseded by V4.4.5

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.5 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

Fast Patches Superseded by V4.4.4

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.4 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

Fast Patches Superseded by V4.4.2

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.2 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.1 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

Problems Fixed in the V4.4.0 Release

  Base Operating System

  ptx/C and Programming Tools

Chapter 3: Open Problem Summary

Installation Problem Reports

Utilities Problem Reports

ptx/ADMIN Problem Reports

Kernel Problem Reports

I/O Device Problem Reports

Library Routine Problem Reports

C Compiler and Programming Tools Problem Reports

debug Problem Reports

edb Problem Reports