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The OpenMosix userland project (user area tools)

Note to the users of OpenMosix.

DON'T PANIC

Maybe you are here because you have read the following bug http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28663.

If this is the case, DO NOT PANIC, and read the full text. Do not begin the download before you fully understand the following text.

This is a personal issue against me of one of the most influent Argentinian bloggers and his followers. In fact, It was notified first to a well known spanish-spoken media and news agregator -meneame-, and the next day to security-related list, without analysis, patches, or asking me.

In fact, they got a 2003 version of the tools by the age of the fork in the CVS -from the epoch of the fork- and used them to show how incompetent I was.

The facts are:

Finnaly, if you read the message of the blogger and his court, DO NOT TOUCH the lines:

if (!err) { if (ip_need_two_phase (pe, n, oldpe, oldmosnet, oldnents)) {

They are alleged to be plain wrong, and correct one -and recommended fix- is to change it to:

if (!err && ip_need_two_phase (pe, n, oldpe, oldmosnet, oldnents)) {

The real thing is that the two ways should be the same, but in older gcc compilers with O3 activated, it was detected that ip_needed_two_phase is executed, no matter !err is false. So the two lines should behave on the same way, but they don't on several compilers with O3. Do not make the changes proposed by the famous Argentinian blogger, because the best you can be is on the same way that you are.

To avoid the missuse of old and outdated versions of this project by such persons, old versions are not more available for downloading.

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.5.1

- 18/4/2006

Official highly experimental version for kernels 2.6. It works for 2.4 kernels; but It is not inteed to work for 2.6.

Before download it, remember that the code will not compile without the OpenMosix kernel source code and rightly editing configuration file.

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.3.0-irbis

- 21/2/2005

This is a version that I use on my clusters; it is not the official one.

Actual versions - v.0.3.x finally stable, mainteance passed to Mirko Caserta

Versions from here to the end of the page were official, but now they are obsolete.

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.2.4

- 5/8/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.2.3

- 9/7/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.2.2

- 4/7/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.2.1

- 28/6/2002

Changelog v.0.2.0

- 22/4/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.1.3

- 4/3/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.1.2

- 28/2/2002

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.1.1

- 24/2/2002

This version is permantently erased, so far Mosix is no longer free software.

OpenMosix Userland tools Changelog v.0.1.0

- 24/2/2002

This version is permantently erased, so far Mosix is no longer free software.