Re: new hook for do_sys_settimeofday

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* Robb Romans (robbat_private) wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> > * Robb Romans (robbat_private) wrote:
> > >
> > > The CAP_SYS_TIME capability denies any change to system time. We need to
> > > be able to prevent decrementing the system time, but allow increment. This
> > > follows the *BSD implementation of secure levels.
> >
> > Robb, I went to apply this patch and got a malformed patch error at line
> > 188 in the patch.  It's late and I'm not sure what broke.  Mind re-diffing
> > and re-sending?
> 
> Attached is a newly generated patch against the latest pull from lsm-2.5.

Thanks, applied.

> This applies cleanly for me, but I would like to see the specific command
> you are using to apply this to the main tree.

Depends, often it's just patch since it gives me most control.

> This may be OT, but I could use some advice on the best way to generate
> diffs to send to the list. My setup is as follows:
> bk://lsm.bkbits.net/lsm-2.5 =clone=> lsm-2.5 =clone=> lsm-2.5-robb. I have
> been using "bk treediff lsm-2.5 lsm-2.5-robb" to generate diffs. Is there
> a better way?

You can also do bk diffs on each file (or against the whole repo if
things aren't checked in).  Or simply bk export -tpatch (picking the
revs to be the diff between your tree and the base tree.

thanks,
-chris
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