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From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix mismatch between link_file definition and declaration
Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:30:12 +0100
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Am Montag, 18. M?rz 2019, 09:41:28 CET schrieb Colin Ian King:
> On 17/03/2019 23:49, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Am Montag, 18. M?rz 2019, 00:09:09 CET schrieb Colin King:
> >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >>
> >> The function link_file declaration in the header file has the order
> >> of the two arguments (from, to) swapped when compared to the definition
> >> arguments of (to, from).  Fix this by swapping them around to match
> >> the definition.
> >>
> >> This error predates the git history, so no idea when this error
> >> was introduced.
> > 
> > commit bf4f804738544a95b8bc8d6a7e2629c3fc0240dd
> > Author: jdike <jdike>
> > Date:   Sat Dec 9 22:52:44 2000 +0000
> > 
> >     hostfs now mostly works.  Almost all of the common operations are now
> >     implemented, the main exceptions being mknod and executing files from
> >     a hostfs filesystem.
> > 
> > Enough archaeology for today. :-)
> 
> Nice. How do you find these ancient git commits?

This commit is from the old UML cvs tree.
I did a import to git some time ago and pushed it to:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml-history.git/

For classic pre-git stuff, check:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/

Thanks,
//richard