On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I would be inclined to prepare a patch if I thought it would > be applied (promptly?), but I submitted a clear/simple fix for > an obvious double-free bug (albeit only in a test case) a month ago: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/85973/ > avoid memory overrun in a test leading to potential double-free > * testsuite/test-expandargv.c (writeout_test): Fix off-by-one error: > i.e., do copy the trailing NUL byte. > > AFAIK, it hasn't been applied. If a "real" bug has such low priority, > this is not a good time to submit a clean-up change.
So, my recommendation would be to treat each patch by itself. I know how you feel. I've applied it as it was previous approved.
