[PATCH libtirpc] Disable libtirpc's own bindresvport{,_sa}() in favor of Cygwin's

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Wed Feb 7 18:51:00 GMT 2018


On 2018-02-07 08:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 01:29 AM, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> I don't have libtirpc in git so I'm submitting a text patch.  Sorry for any
>> inconvenience.  This is Cygwin-specific and against src/bindresvport.c of
>> libtirpc 1.0.1.  Unsure if it ought to go upstream; appreciate input on that.
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> ..mark
>>
>> --------8<--------
>> 35a36,38
>>  > /* On Cygwin prefer Cygwin's bindresvport{,_sa}() to portable version here */
> 
> An ed-script diff is practically useless; without context, it is too easy to
> misapply the patch if the file has been edited differently in the meantime. 
> ALWAYS use 'diff -u' (what git does by default) or 'diff -c' when generating a
> patch, so that it has proper context.

Also mandatory to add -p, --show-c-function for patches, and in general for
directory or recursive patch diffs -N, --new-file so new files are diffed as if
against an empty file; --strip-trailing-cr is useful if some files may have CRs.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada



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