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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 2002 01:32:27 -0400
From:      Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pine 4.44 Privacy Patch
Message-ID:  <15618.59499.943442.924916@ool-18bacefa.dyn.optonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020609030436.GB79791@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <3D028157.28F86BD7@FreeBSD.org> <20020608160053.I40521-100000@roble.com> <20020609030436.GB79791@hades.hell.gr>

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>>>>> "GK" == Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

    GK> On 2002-06-08 16:04 -0700, Roger Marquis wrote:
    >> DiCioccio, Jason <jdicioccio@epylon.com> wrote: >Am I crazy or
    >> do his comments EVER get closed?  Looks wrong to me
    >> 
    >> That's because it's a patch, not a comment.  If you don't
    >> modify comment endings they don't show up in the patch.  See
    >> diff (1) for details.

    GK> Can you elaborate on this?  My diff(1) manpage seems to have
    GK> absolutely no comments for comments...

I think what he meant was that what was provided was a diff, not a
source file, and that the reason comment endings do not appear in the
diff output is that the lines on which the comment endings appear were
not changed.

I don't think this is really on-topic for -security anymore.

--
Chris

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