Patches

Project	Patch description (accepted considered rejected)	Date

bash	send bash prompt to tty rather than stderr	Jul 12 2001
bash	get bash to do logical rather than arithmetic shifts	Oct 7 2008
busybox	configurable size for busybox::syslog -C	May 12 2003
coreutils	add delimiter option to uniq all-repeated option	May 15 2001
	fix 3rd party changes to delimiter option to uniq all-repeated option	Sep 24 2001
	textutils speedup 2	Sep 25 2001
	textutils speedup 3	Oct 3 2001
	textutils speedup 4	Nov 23 2001
	add --group option to uniq and validate option combinations	Mar 20 2002
	textutils {speed,clean}up 5	Apr 2 2002
	fix pr option parsing	Apr 22 2002
	coreutils::date --date +%s doc error	Jun 5 2003
	coreutils 6.0 memcoll fix	Aug 16 2006
	Abstract users of seq from details of binary floating point representations	Jun 20 2007
	Fix output format (width) of numbers from seq	Jul 9 2007
	Make "Date input formats" easier to find in info	Sep 25 2007
	Clarify descriptions for split command in info	Nov 21 2007
	Ensure directory names output by du contain a trailing /	Mar 7 2008
	dircolors --print-ls-colors option	Feb 14 2022
	all patches ...	...
findutils	enhancement to find to print device id	Jun 15 2001
	xargs bug fix	Jun 16 2001
	find doc update	Jun 16 2001
bc	uninitialized heap fix	Dec 22 2010
bc	fix suppression of empty lines	Aug 14 2021
gcc	cpp docs update for gcc 3.3.2	May 5 2004
glibc	glibc threading bug identification	Jul 29 2001
gnome	gcalctool fix for eng display prob	Dec 22 2004
	gcalctool fix for shift key handling problem	Dec 23 2004
	Fix for GtkFileSelection widget mem exhaustion when G_FILENAME_ENCODING set	Jul 1 2005
	Spelling fix for pygtk clist exceptions	Feb 14 2006
grep	Fix grep --color to not corrupt utf8 data in C locale	Dec 12 2005
sed	Make sed -u consume minimal input	Jul 04 2009
grub	possible corruption fix for grub (install)	Apr 22 2003
grub	bug fix to redhats grub savedefault --once patch	Nov 18 2003
nbsmtp	nbsmtp enhancments	Sep 28 2001
mc	Midnight Commander patchfs rewrite	Oct 26 2002
mozilla	Mozilla MailNews patch to allow signature "file" be a pipe etc. Also set Max sig to 4K	Nov 14 2002
parsecfg	make parsecfg usuable for servers (memory deallocation and error messages)	Feb 6 2002
php	fix (very large) socket leak in php snmp code	Oct 15 2001
squid	squid 2.3 filters bugfix	Jun 17 2002
squid	squid 2.3 script enhancement	Jan 16 2001
http_get	don't allow gzip content as it's not distinguished	Oct 15 2009
inn	mailman athentication script for inn	Nov 5 2003
util-linux	highlight today in cal output. Also fix weekday alignment in multibyte locales	Nov 16 2004
	fixes to previous highlight patch	Apr 26 2005
	clarification to look man page	Jan 7 2005
	extend the highlight functionality in cal to allow highlighting an arbitrary day	Oct 2 2007
	More cal weekday alignment fixes for multibyte locales	Jan 4 2008
	Clarify fallocate usage	Jun 26 2014
sdparm	Make sdparm spin down external disks correctly	Feb 4 2010
vim	Fix for g$ in insert mode	Dec 21 2004
	Fix $(..) and $((..)) syntax highlighting for /bin/sh scripts	Jun 16 2008
	Fix drill down using Ctrl-[ with man-db pages	Nov 29 2010
liferea	Make liferea display updated feed items correctly	Jun 9 2006
Linux-PAM	Fix for Linux-PAM not allowing password change if system date set back	Jul 26 2005
linux kernel	linux kernel ip-sysctl.txt update	Jun 11 2002
	VIA C3 frequency scaling enhancements	May 16 2002
	upgrade linux 2.4 watchdog for new advantech SBCs	Oct 14 2003
	linux 2.6 watchdog for w83627hf	Dec 16 2003
	bug fix to above driver to not reboot too quickly	Aug 17 2005
	bug fix to above driver to really ignore keyboard and mouse	Jul 24 2007
	linux 2.6.13-rc2-mm1 /proc/$$/smaps enhancement	Jul 12 2005
	e1000 dropped packets double count fix	Jul 27 2005
	Shared access support to em28xx driver	Aug 3 2006
	v4l1 (for vlc) support to em28xx driver	Jul 28 2006
	v4l1 compat layer corruption workaround	Aug 8 2006
	secam support to saa7115 driver	Sep 25 2006
	better video on saa7113 in saa7115 driver	Sep 17 2006
	fix large mem leak in em28xx driver	Jan 9 2009
	fix return description in posix_fadvise man page	Mar 9 2007
	fix watchdog timeout values for iTCO V1 watchdogs	Feb 24 2010
	allow empty symlink targets	Jan 17 2013
gkernel	allow ethtool to work with arbitrary interface names	Jul 31 2003
ipvs	ipvsadm returncode patch	Nov 7 2001
vlc	VLC support for YUY2 chroma (the only format supported by em28xx)	Jul 17 2006
	Fix Closed Captions channel selection and parity processing	Apr 16 2009
	Fix SCTE-20 Closed Captions field selection	Jan 29 2010
fedora	Enable 256 color mode by default	Aug 8 2012