UNIX admin wrote:
Patches are not allowed to deliver upgrades or otherwise upgrade software on 
Solaris.
Patches are explicitly not allowed to deliver new functionality.

Wrong.   Patches have been delivering new functionality into Solaris
for years.   One of my first tasks at Sun when I started in 1999 was
working on the patches that updated Xsun from X11R6.0 to X11R6.4 and
added functionality such as Xinerama.

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    -Alan Coopersmith-           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
     Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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