From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 5 06:46:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA07949 for current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 06:46:46 -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 GAA07931; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 06:46:34 -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 RAA10054; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:45:45 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:45:42 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current , steve@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans Subject: Re: New patch: one thing to think about In-Reply-To: <19980105091229.49254@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, J Wunsch wrote: > As Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > To say it simple, no *.orig files created now unless you specify > > > -b option. > > > > Oops, not so simple. No *.orig created only if patch applies _cleanly_, > > if something is rejected, *.orig created by default. > > Hmm, that sounds at least halfways useful, although i still don't get > it why Posix needed to standardize away from common practice. I think Posix insist here on pure functionality separation as Unix principle, i.e. making patch *is* main function of the "patch", but producing backup *is not*. GNU maintainers makes it halfway compatible, not producing backup only if patch applies absolutely clean... -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/