On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jeff Mandel wrote: > Are your patches by special arrangement with Sun? I have a contract > but see no available t-patches and no reference to one in the bug > listing for 4700402. Where can I obtain this patch?
T-patches are "pre-release" patches; "T" is for "testing", I think. A customer files bug report, Sun analyse the problem and then come up with a patch for the customer to try out, to see if it fixes the problem. If the fix appears to work then the T-patch goes through all the proper review and release engineering processes to become a publically available patch (perhaps, eventually). T-patches don't tend to get wide distribution (except for some of those which close serious security holes). I haven't tried this yet but I would guess that those of us who are support customers, and who are experiencing difficulties, may be able to get the T-patch if we open a support request with Sun service quoting the bug-id. Regards, -- Neil Hoggarth Departmental Computer Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratory of Physiology http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/ University of Oxford, UK