Re: Alpha ELF Kernel comments & questions

Richard Henderson (richard@atheist.tamu.edu)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:11:47 -0500 (CDT)

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> > Yes, that's because you used -p0 in /usr/src, instead of -p1 in
> > /usr/src/linux.
>
> am I the only one who thinks that "patch" is really broken here ?
> at least I couldn't find any reason in the man page why patch
> creates the "old_file" (and creating the subdirs for it)
> instead of modifying the "new_file" which already exists.
>
> so far I was too lacy to check the sources; does anyone know
> *why* this happens? or is there a fix for patch available ?

*shrug* Since I've never known what it was _supposed_ to do wrt
new files, I just stay away from -p0 when at all possible, and use
-pN where N makes the filenames unambiguous.

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