From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lijo.kernel@gmail.com (Lijo Antony)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:58:24 +0400
Subject: Question regarding patches
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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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