Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!clan!ptrubey From: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Patch #14 on System V machines. Message-ID: <337@clan.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 19:11:50 GMT Article-I.D.: clan.337 Posted: Fri Dec 11 14:11:50 1987 Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 33 Almost... Patch 14 has a small bug in it for those systems that do not have the MKDIRSUB #define defined. According to the defs.c comments you are supposed to define this *if* your system has a mkdir() system call. Most System V Unix do not have this as a system call, so this is usually left undefined. This is used in the file funcs.c where an alternate mkdir() is coded. Unfortunately, Patch #14 enclosed this mkdir() procedure with #ifdef MKDIRSUB instead of #ifndef MKDIRSUB I did the following diff of my two files to get the offsets... (by the way, how does one generate patch's from two different files?) File: funcs.c 523c523 < #ifdef MKDIRSUB --- > #ifndef MKDIRSUB Another question - this is *not* meant to be sarcastic: Do the news maintainers have access to a System V machine to test out their patches before sending them out? Phil Trubey School of Computer Science, Carleton University CDNnet: phil@scs.carleton.cdn BITNET: ptrubey@carleton.bitnet UUCP: ptrubey@scs.uucp ( ..!watmath!clan!scs!phil)