Re: [PATCH] New sol10priv module

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> David Bartley wrote:
>> The following patches for coreutils and gnulib add a new Solaris 10
>> privilege module as previously suggested [1].
>
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for following through.
> Are you up to the task of making a few more changes?
>
> ============================================================
> - naming: the module and function names should be OS-agnostic,
> in case some day we extend it to other than Solaris 10.
> For example, I'll bet they already work on opensolaris.
> Maybe something like priv-set.[ch] for module/file names
> and priv_set_* for function names.
> By the say, with git, you can perform the requested renaming
> trivially via this trick:
> Take your git format-patch output (what you mailed to this list),
> and perform the global substitutions:
>
>     perl -pe 's/sol10priv_/priv_set_/g;s/sol10priv.([chm])/priv-set.$1/g;'
>       -e s/sol10priv/priv_set/g FILE > FILE-new
>
> Then apply that patch on a new branch like this:
>
>     git co master
>     git co -b new
>     git am FILE-new

To be complete, I have to say that "co" is an alias for checkout.
I have this in ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
        st = status
        co = checkout
        ci = commit
        br = branch
        desc = describe
        fp = format-patch
        syncsub = submodule foreach git pull origin master