On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:24:55PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
>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.

given the astounding non-negative response i received, i adapted the
binary patching to a separate small pkg (pkgtools/binpatch) and then
patched www/navigator/Makefile.common so that the i386 pkgs (at least)
are "patched".

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