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Re: *** buffer overflow detected *** error

ying lcs wrote:

> $ patch -p0 < adf33dbb59d0.patch
> ...
> |--- a/browser/components/migration/src/nsDogbertProfileMigrator.cpp    Tue
> Oct 21 16:36:29 2008 +1300
> |+++ b/browser/components/migration/src/nsDogbertProfileMigrator.cpp    Mon
> Oct 20 22:55:57 2008 -0500

The purpose of the argument to -p is to match up the filenames in the
patch relative to your working dir.  For example if browser/ is a subdir
of your current working directory then you would need -p1 to strip one
level from the filenames in the patch.

Brian
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