Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? | From | Graham Murray <> | Date | 09 Mar 2001 10:40:10 +0000 |
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"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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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