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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:11 -0400
From:      Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>
To:        David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question about procfs advisory...
Message-ID:  <3B82E0F3.1080502@magpage.com>
References:  <20010821140526.I38221-100000@localhost>

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David Kirchner wrote:
> I did patch -p0 < /path/to/patch and it worked fine for my 4.2 boxes.
>

isn't -p0 the same as -p?  regardless, patch still prompts me for a file
to patch.

alaska:~# cd /usr/src/sys
alaska:/usr/src/sys# patch -p0 < ~/procfs.patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Index: sys/i386/linux/linprocfs/linprocfs_vnops.c
|===================================================================
|RCS file: /usr2/ncvs/src/sys/i386/linux/linprocfs/Attic/linprocfs_vnops.c,v
|retrieving revision 1.3.2.4
|retrieving revision 1.3.2.5
|diff -u -r1.3.2.4 -r1.3.2.5
|--- sys/i386/linux/linprocfs/linprocfs_vnops.c 2001/06/25 19:46:47     1.3.2.4
|+++ sys/i386/linux/linprocfs/linprocfs_vnops.c 2001/08/12 14:29:19     1.3.2.5
--------------------------
File to patch:



> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Frazier wrote:
> 
> 
>>in section V.2 it says...
>>
>># cd /usr/src/sys
>># patch -p < /path/to/patch
>>
>>
>>...but when I do so patch cannot find the files to patch.  Should that
>>have been...
>>
>># cd /usr/src/
>>
>>...instead?
>>
>>
>>
>>

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