On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, 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.

Please ping unreviewed (or approved but not committed) patches at least 
weekly, as many times as needed.  If a patch isn't reviewed within a week, 
it's unlikely to be reviewed without a ping.  (Actually I suspect the vast 
bulk of reviews are within two or three days.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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