sundry 4.2 bugs

[cak at PURDUE.ARPA]

From:  Christopher A Kent <cak at PURDUE.ARPA>

Berkeley seems to be uninterested in supporting its "clients" in any
way any more. It used to be that you could get hold of the bug reports,
IF you knew the right person to get onto the mailing list; even that
has gone away. Now, we can only hope that reported bugs make it into
the ever-awaited next release.

On the other hand, bug reports that only exist in Unix-Wizards don't
always seem to make it into said release. I would encourage all 4.2
hackers to send their fixes to Berkeley AND this list; I would further
encourage Berkeley to remail the bug fixes to a wider forum. I realize
that there are licensing problems, but I tend to believe that this is a
very thin shroud that is being hidden behind; we all know about
public-key encrytion now; implementations exist for Unix, and there is
no reason that a registered letter with a password couldn't be
exchanged between UCB and licensees, and bug fixes mailed to registered
systems administrators on a regular basis.

I found the UDP problems in the 4.2 pre-release, too, but it seems that
they didn't make it back in time to make it onto the tape. tftp is
pretty much botched, too. I'm really tired of having to reinvent the
wheel again and again...

Cheers,
chris
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