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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
December 10, 2005 05:20
Subject:
Re: sprintf patches
Message ID:
20051210131957.GY616@plum.flirble.org
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:07:01PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> Thanks. I've used the same trick for context diffs for patchlevel.h
> 
> Jarkko tells me that unified diffs aren't yet in POSIX, so context diffs are
> likely to be more portable to older versions of patch.
> 
> So, here we go again with another attempt...

Except they all said

> *** perl-5.8.0/patchlevel.h	Fri Jul 19 00:08:27 2002
> --- perl-5.8.0.patched/patchlevel.h	Wed Dec  7 21:18:08 2005
> ***************
> ***************
> *** 82 ****
> ! 	,NULL
> --- 82,83 ----
> ! 	,"SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CAN-2005-XXX"
> ! 	,NULL

because the file I used to diff against wasn't never edited to say CVE.

All together now:

   There was an old man called Michael Finnegan,
   He grew whiskers on his chinnigan.
   The wind came out and blew them inigan,
   Poor old Michael Finnegan... begin again.

(and then the Internet knows more verses than I do...)

So, begin again (attached)

Nicholas Clark

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