Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:06:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Chris Singer <csinger@workfire.com> Cc: Scott Langevin <slangevi@csc.uvic.ca>, BSD Help <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does anyone know what to do to apply a patch?? Message-ID: <19990609230649.J261@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <000301beb2c4$0012f890$0ea78e8b@maverick.workfire.com>; from Chris Singer on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:04:09PM -0700 References: <000301beb2c4$0012f890$0ea78e8b@maverick.workfire.com>
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On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:04:09PM -0700, Chris Singer wrote:
> I need to apply a patch to a source file and I'm wondering how you do it.
> The purpose of this is to fix a TCP bug with small packets. Here is the
> relevant info that I have been given:
>
> Apply the following patch to /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c
>
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.40
> retrieving revision 1.41
> diff -p -u -r1.40 -r1.41
> --- src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c 1998/05/15 20:11:30 1.40
> +++ /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c 1998/07/06 19:27:14 1.41
> @@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ restart:
> mlen = MCLBYTES;
> len = min(min(mlen, resid), space);
> }else{
> + atomic=1;
> nopages;
> len = min(min(mlen, resid), space);
> /*
>
>
>
> That is all the info I have. I don't follow what it means? It doesn't much
> look like C code until the last 5 or 6 lines. I tried entering them in as
> commands and I just get a bad command back. Have any ideas of how to
> implement this? THanks for taking the time to hear my dilema.
>
The file is the output from diff(1)'ing the original and modified
files.
Use patch(1). Usually ``patch < <patchfile>'' is aal that's required,
but check the manpage for full details.
> Chris Singer
>
>
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