On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 13:58 +0400, Lijo Antony wrote: >> On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote: >> > Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am >> > patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner >> > question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that. >> > >> > Now my question is - >> > >> > What "@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@" mean in this snippet from the patch - >> > >> > diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h >> > index 722c620..6abb687 100644 >> > --- a/exec.h >> > +++ b/exec.h >> > @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm, >> > unsigned long pages); >> > >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html >> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293 >> >> -lijo >> > But I don't see any mention of the "index" field here // > see line "index 722c620..6abb687 100644". What does this mean ? > the index 7222...6bbb are may be the git ids or some git's references... 100644 is the file mode. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
