From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
To: Graham Murray <graham@webwayone.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:26:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA8DA0C.D4AF7FF5@haque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103081124210.9614-100000@viper.haque.net> <m3g0gnfcol.fsf@gmlinux.webwayone.co.uk>
Graham Murray wrote:
> Does making a patch necessarily require modifying the source code?
> Back in my days as a mainframe systems programmer (ICL VME/B), most OS
> patches were made to the binary image, either in the file or to the
> loaded virtual memory image.
Hmm. I guess you have something there. I come from a Mac background and
some patches I've seen to 'hack' a feature into one of Apple's drivers
has been one that modifies the resource fork of the driver file. The
person who made this mod of course didn't have access to the source
code.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-09 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-08 16:04 Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-03-08 16:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-08 16:28 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-03-08 18:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-08 18:32 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-03-09 10:40 ` Graham Murray
2001-03-09 12:05 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-09 12:47 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-10 2:10 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-09 13:26 ` Mohammad A. Haque [this message]
2001-03-09 17:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-03-09 19:34 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-03-08 16:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-03-08 17:36 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-03-08 17:53 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-03-08 19:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-03-09 3:35 ` Werner Almesberger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-08 21:21 Jason Venner
2001-03-08 19:40 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-03-08 16:49 Wayne.Brown
2001-03-08 15:24 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-08 18:34 ` Ian Stirling
2001-03-08 20:41 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-08 15:01 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-03-08 15:52 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-03-08 16:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-09 5:43 ` J. Dow
2001-03-09 6:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-03-09 11:11 ` Dr. Michael Weller
2001-03-08 19:10 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-03-08 19:38 ` Lars Gaarden
2001-03-09 18:16 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-03-10 3:49 ` Steve Underwood
2001-03-11 17:23 ` Mark H. Wood
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