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From: lijo.kernel@gmail.com (Lijo Antony)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Question regarding patches
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:58:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D18FC0.7020103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355906820.5392.10.camel@oc2826874472.ibm.com>

On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
> Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am
> patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner
> question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that.
>
> Now my question is -
>
> What "@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@" mean in this snippet from the patch -
>
> diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h
> index 722c620..6abb687 100644
> --- a/exec.h
> +++ b/exec.h
> @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
> unsigned long pages);
>

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293

-lijo

> -- Shraddha
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-19  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-19  8:47 Question regarding patches Shraddha Kamat
2012-12-19  9:26 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-12-19  9:58 ` Lijo Antony [this message]
2012-12-19 10:13   ` Shraddha Kamat
2012-12-19 10:33     ` devendra.aaru
2012-12-19 10:33     ` Avinash Patil
2012-12-19 11:01     ` Tobias Boege
2012-12-19 17:01     ` Anand Arumugam

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