[parted-devel] [PATCH] Handle partial reads correctly

[Matt Davis]

On 7/5/07, Michael Brennan <brennan.brisad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a little bug in the linux_read function and now want to
> try to send a minimal patch to fix it.  But I have never done
> it before and I'm not sure on how this works.  Here I have just
> taken the output from git-diff and sent it in the mail, is that
> the correct way to do it?

Sounds right.  Here is a good tutorial/resource on how to commit
patches (from the WINE project):
http://www.winehq.org/site/sending_patches

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> The patch fixes a problem where a partial read would not be
> handled correctly, I also changed the status variable to ssize_t.
>

Cool!

-Matt



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