[Crash-utility] A patch for match_file_string()

[Alex Sidorenko]

On March 14, 2008 09:35:59 am Dave Anderson wrote:
> Anyway, since match_file_string() is used by multiple entities, and in
> the future a caller may actually want to include the linefeed, it doesn't
> seem appropriate to make the change there.
>
> Can you test the attached patch on both a live system and a dumpfile?
> It strips the linefeed from the version string when it's initialized,
> and makes a couple other minor adjustments, including to the first Ubuntu
> patch, which shouldn't be required any more.

Hi Dave,

your patch works fine.  I agree it is safer to strip directly kt->procversion 
as match_file_string() is a general-purpose function and can be eventually 
used for something very different.

Regards,
Alex

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