Personal patches (actually about patches this time)

Stephen McKay smckay at internode.on.net
Mon Jan 5 17:19:36 PST 2004


On Monday, 5th January 2004, a clever sheep wrote:

>and now for something completely different (and non-political)...
>
>how many of these personal patches do you have?  i have a few things
>myself but i don't know how much value there is in them.  would it be an
>advantage to have a community site with something similiar to (please
>don't cringe, i'm about to say wiki) a wiki where we could exchange
>these scripts?  i can see a lot of value in freebsd patches that aren't
>'mainstream' enough for the main tree but would still be valuable.

Most of my personal patches are just that: personal.  Of the lot, the
only one I can think of that others might find useful is the patch to
add a flag (-0) to "find" to make the default action -print0 not -print,
so you can more easily plug it into xargs -0.  I'll submit that one in
a PR sometime.

Stephen.


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