Re: Weirdness in comm(1)

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:58:20 -0500
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > I guess I'm not as current as I should be.  I tracked it down and read
> > the underlying code.  It certainly makes more sense although my way can
> > be backported to supported versions.  Why don't I commit what I have,
> > request pullups and then work on a new version for -current?
>
> I have committed my changes and requested a pullup to NB4.  I used
> homeworld for testing.  Does anyone know where I can test NB5 before
> requesting the pullup?  All my machines are running some version of
> current.

If its just a userland change, the NB5 binary should work fine on current?

I keep a NB5 source tree for this kind of thing, just build a distribution
and test the built binary - if it requires the lib also, you can usually
chroot to $DESTDIR

iain