Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

Graham Murray
2001-03-09T10:37:50Z

"Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net> writes:

> making a patch means you've modfied the source which you are not allowed
> to do. The most you can do is report the bug through normal channels
> (you dont even have priority in reporting bugs since you have the code).

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.