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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:12:29 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current <current@freebsd.org>, steve@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: New patch: one thing to think about
Message-ID:  <19980105091229.49254@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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