Maybe this is already common knowledge, but it surprised me.

I was reviewing the patches I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and noticed
that a patch I submitted got corrupted.

The message:

http://www.xfree86.org/devel/archives/patch/2002-Sep/0008.shtml

The attachment:

http://www.xfree86.org/devel/archives/patch/2002-Sep/handle_vetoed_suspend.diff

This is the troublesome line:

+           if (errno = EBUSY)

Of course that shouldn't be an assignment...and, in fact, it wasn't in
the mail I sent out.  I think there is a bug in a MIME parser somewhere,
probably in hypermail, that collapsed the == to a =.

I don't know how the process of patch merging works, but this sort of
corruption of attachments could really waste some time and introduce
some subtle bugs.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     Exercise your freedom of religion.
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     Set fire to a church of your
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