Patch Wednesday

Doing some cleanup in ~/src last night and I spotted some .diff's I've had lying around. These might be useful to you, or they might cause serious hardware failure. Only one way to know for sure though.

• god

  kill-pgrp.diff

  Sometimes god doesn't kill a process it has daemonized. It sends a TERM signal to the process it forked but this leaves the forks child running (if you know what I mean). Since god has already forked, it's safe to send the TERM signal to the process group containing the subprocess.

• ImageScience

  image_science_with_buffer.diff

  ImageScience is a lightweight Ruby replacement for ImageMagick built on FreeImage (and if you've ever tried resolving all ImageMagicks dependencies by hand you'll understand why someone wrote a lightweight replacement). One of the features it's missing though is the ability to load an image from a buffer already in memory. This patch adds that capability.

  Once applied, you can use ImageScience.with_buffer(buffer, buffer.length) where buffer is a plain old Ruby string.

  image_science_with_alpha_icos.diff

  Alpha channel support for ICO images why not.

• pybeanstalkd

  pybeanstalk-osx.diff

  pybeanstalk provides a Python interface to the beanstalkd queue. This patch lets it play nicely on MacOS (OS X Python lacks select.poll but it's easily worked around here).

  Edit: oops, this patch was accepted a while ago. If pybeanstalk isn't working on your Mac, just update to the latest version.