On 04/04/2014 11:49 AM, Rupert Russell wrote: > Paul, > > I have a confession to make and that is I'm not sure really how to deal with > the diff file and now the fixup for the patch. > Googling around, I can see that > patch -p1 < shred1.diff > needs to be run from where the source resides. > But then it's not immediately obvious to me, at my relatively light level of > Linux knowledge, if this requires a remake or compilation of the kernel. > If it does, then it's not something I've done before, and depending on where > I read, the methods for doing this aren't universally the same. > > Might I have a few pointers please?
The patch works around the kernel behavior and so no changes are needed there. To compile a new shred binary for testing: mkdir shred-test && cd shred-test wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.22.tar.xz tar -xf coreutils-8.22.tar.xz cd coreutils-8.22 wget 'http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=patch;h=88545ad0' -O- | patch -p1 ./configure --quiet && make -j $(nproc) Now the new shred is available in src/shred. You can run it directly from there or copy to somewhere like /usr/local/bin. cheers, Pádraig.
