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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:05:32 -0600
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Eric Brunson" <brunson@brunson.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patch for 'expect'
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0612132305s5afd896by3b2ecc41491606ce@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com>
References:  <4580F314.8010307@brunson.com>

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On 12/14/06, Eric Brunson <brunson@brunson.com> wrote:
> Hi Ports Maintainers,
>
> I just spent the last few days sorting out a problem with expect on my
> 6.1 box.  I have a patch to the expect interpreter on this platform that
> I'd like to offer for your review.  There's a problem with the way
> expect searches for available ptys that makes it only capable of
> utilizing the first 64 device nodes rather than the full 256 available.
>
> I'm brand new to the FreeBSD community coming from years on Solaris and
> AIX, so I don't know the "channels" through which to push this.  It's a
> very simple patch, 3 lines of code change, context diff drops right into
> /usr/ports/lang/expect/files.  I also have test cases that show the
> behavior before and after the patch.
>
To send changes/file a problem report for a port, you can use either send-pr:

    send-pr -a patch-file

or the web send-pr form:

    http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

to submit an update for the port.

Scot
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