From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 4 14:00:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA29675 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA29666; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05761; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:59:54 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:59:52 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: FreeBSD-current cc: Joerg Wunsch , steve@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans Subject: New patch: one thing to think about Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please note that new patch behave different in one essential place (from new patch manpage): In traditional patch, backups were enabled by default. This behavior is now enabled with the -b or --backup option. Conversely, in POSIX patch, backups are never made, even when there is a mismatch. In GNU patch, this behavior is enabled with the --no-backup-if-mismatch option or by setting the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable. To say it simple, no *.orig files created now unless you specify -b option. Bringing this fact to your attention I means, that either we can accept new way of things, or assume -b by default simulating old variant. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/