From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 2 15:34: 4 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.networkrichmond.com (kronos.networkrichmond.com [64.240.180.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C1537C656; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: Network Richmond, LLC. http://www.networkrichmond.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.networkrichmond.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id SAA67666; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:33:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.networkrichmond.com To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Kelly Yancey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/patch patch.c pch.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Aug 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > I agree that skipping files when --skip is specified should not count > as an error, but I'm less sure about --force and --batch. What do you > think about putting those two errors back? Good point. I just committed the fix. > > Another thing you could do is to add another option that will cause > questions to not being asked but make patch exit with an error when > there is a need to ask a question. This is what we really want > instead of --batch, since the whole purpose is to avoid getting into > an infinite loop when patch is called without a terminal. > > Or maybe we can just fix patch so it won't go into an infinite loop > when stdin is closed. > :) I think it might be easier just to rewrite patch. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message