[PATCH] Repair '-nolock'

[Jon TURNEY]

On 30/11/2009 07:57, Fergus wrote:
> (Sorry to send twice: originally sent yesterday Sunday 0728 GMT but
> never arrived at cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com; 2nd attempt today
> Monday 0752 GMT and hope for better progress.) Message was:

The reason why your first message did not arrive at the mailing list was 
because you only sent it to me, personally.  Such mails get ignored for 
reasons laid out at [1].  Please be more careful in future :-)

[1] http://cygwin.com/problems.html

>
> Thank you.
>
> 1 Will this amendment eventually be incorporated into an updated .bz2
> file under /release?

Assuming it works and doesn't break anything else, yes.

> 2 If not then (I am sorry) I do not know how to introduce a patch into
> an existing executable.
> <Something like: unwrap src, change os/utils.c, rebuild?>
> If this is something everybody in the world except me knows, can you
> direct me to a howto?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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