on the first try, 9 of 11 hunk succeed on devel_0_39. heres a patch which fixes the 2 .rej's.
it is better. [ ; asd 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8( , tabreads back as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7, [ ; asd 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4( reads 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 4. then after a bit of fiddling, theres a crash in #0 0x000000000042fe95 in fifo_put ()
so theres still one? bug left, at least. well, two, if you count the segfault. i'll try again next year :)