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From: Graham Murray <graham@webwayone.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?
Date: 09 Mar 2001 10:40:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g0gnfcol.fsf@gmlinux.webwayone.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103081124210.9614-100000@viper.haque.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103081124210.9614-100000@viper.haque.net> ("Mohammad A. Haque"'s message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:28:03 -0500 (EST)")

"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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-09 10:37 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 [this message]
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
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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