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Note SA_SIGINFO, FPE trapcodes and sh fixes.

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Fix whitespace, use two blank lines before new chapters.

Approved by:	jkh
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Martin Cracauer 2000-02-17 07:59:37 +00:00
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@ -50,12 +50,18 @@ Table of contents:
All changes described here are unique to the 4.0 branch unless
specifically marked as [MERGED] features.
1.1. KERNEL CHANGES
-------------------
NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning
NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning.
Support for more than 32 signals has been added.
Support for more than 32 signals has been added.
POSIX 1003.1 conformant SA_SIGINFO signal handlers are now supported.
SIGFPE signal handlers (both SA_SIGINFO and traditional BSD handlers)
now get meaningful error codes describing the kind of error. See
sigaction(2).
Jail(8) aware sysctl(8) variables have been added for Linux mode.
@ -162,6 +168,7 @@ and the Belkin F5U111.
Driver support has been added for Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless
adapters. This includes PCMCIA, PCI and ISA models.
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@ -182,12 +189,16 @@ absolutely no administrative changes to the machine to work, and is
at the very least a step up from plaintext. To use it, you need to
either use "telnet -ax" or set up a .telnetrc to enable it by default.
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2.
This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support.
Various changes has been made to /bin/sh to improve POSIX 1003.2
conformance, especially for scripting.
The f77 emulation via f2c has been replaced by a native F77 compiler.
The timezone database has been updated to catch all of the recent changes
@ -319,6 +330,7 @@ Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
2.2. Ethernet cards
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@ -486,6 +498,7 @@ Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including:
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
2.3 ATM
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@ -512,6 +525,7 @@ supported.
o ATM Sockets interface
2.4. Misc
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@ -581,11 +595,13 @@ the same driver.
Aironet 4500/4800 series 802.11 wireless adapters. The PCMCIA,
PCI and ISA adapters are all supported.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
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