every time i start netscape, the kernel says:

    set{u,g}id pid 27628 (netstat) was invoked by uid 204 ppid 18595 (netscape) with fd 0 closed

i was always irked by that, but it wasn't until today that i bit into
it, chewed, and spat out an answer.

i've developed a tiny c program that will find the right place in the
binary and poke it appropriately such that when netstat is executed,
fd 0 is not closed.  works like a charm.

do we have any facility whatsoever for doing binary patches like this
in pkgsrc?  should i just fling something together?

fwiw, the same thing could be done in perl, but i don't think that
requiring that perl be installed is a good prerequisite for installing
something that will never use it.

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