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From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams)
Subject: Re: What goes into the patchkit?
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In article <CONKLIN.93Feb17152524@ngai.kaleida.com> conklin@kaleida.com writes:
>Hendrik> While trying to get "cvs import" to work, I found that
>Hendrik> fnmatch() returned exactly the opposite of what the man page
>Hendrik> said it did (and cvs expected).  The patch follows.
>
>I submitted a similar patch to the patch kit long long ago.  When are
>we going to see c library fixes in the patchkit?
>
>I consider c library bugs equally as frustrating as kernel bugs, since
>they tend to be more subtle.  If you aren't doing a full regression
>test of a program, you may miss something.

I agree.  I'm sorry I didn't get those fixes into the patchkit (along
with a billion other fixes), but my time was limited, and I felt
that at the time, I could only focus on one thing, that was kernel
stability (since my machine was VERY unstable).

All of the patches are archived, and Jordan has a copy of them..


Nate
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