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Re: Vendor patches

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 14, 2007 10:08
Subject:
Re: Vendor patches
Message ID:
20070314170811.GW5748@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:05:05AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:

> I once started reporting back HP-UX specific changes to p5p, but they
> were essentially being ignored, so I stopped doing that (I don't

That usually means that no-one feels confident that they understand them.

> remember the details, but it was about restartable SIGACTION signals or
> something like that). Note that many HP-UX specific diffs against the
> core are of ancient origin, so it is not actually trivial for me to
> determine *why* a specific change was made.

That's the important problem. :-(

Nicholas Clark

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