From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 07:05:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F79716A407 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:05:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF24D43C9F for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:03:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so210237nzh for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:05:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OHEA8Cl46YZn1HwEQRZMp2+Hin7g+Y3BhPBOWELQ0XfNy3DuTgZPfaUbWIwO611hmHypIOkkRHjmE/k8tqUDGumr161T1j6pgE3LBWKtBWF0hnK/T3O8t0dNXZhja4dXB8LQe+3vYeUYAQ1FmlR9kvOTKi/R5D6lCYNmikKxWZM= Received: by 10.65.38.13 with SMTP id q13mr929481qbj.1166079932605; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.61.1 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:05:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0612132305s5afd896by3b2ecc41491606ce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:05:32 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: "Eric Brunson" In-Reply-To: <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch for 'expect' X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:05:34 -0000 On 12/14/06, Eric Brunson wrote: > Hi Ports Maintainers, > > I just spent the last few days sorting out a problem with expect on my > 6.1 box. I have a patch to the expect interpreter on this platform that > I'd like to offer for your review. There's a problem with the way > expect searches for available ptys that makes it only capable of > utilizing the first 64 device nodes rather than the full 256 available. > > I'm brand new to the FreeBSD community coming from years on Solaris and > AIX, so I don't know the "channels" through which to push this. It's a > very simple patch, 3 lines of code change, context diff drops right into > /usr/ports/lang/expect/files. I also have test cases that show the > behavior before and after the patch. > To send changes/file a problem report for a port, you can use either send-pr: send-pr -a patch-file or the web send-pr form: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html to submit an update for the port. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.