Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:05:32 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Eric Brunson" <brunson@brunson.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch for 'expect' Message-ID: <790a9fff0612132305s5afd896by3b2ecc41491606ce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com> References: <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com>
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On 12/14/06, Eric Brunson <brunson@brunson.com> 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.
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