bugGNU patch - Bugs: bug #25831, Patch -r /dev/null broken

 
 

bug #25831: Patch -r /dev/null broken

Submitted by:  Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Submitted on:  Thu 12 Mar 2009 08:05:06 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Duplicate
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

Add a New Comment(Rich Markup)
   

You are not logged in

Please log in, so followups can be emailed to you.

 

Thu 12 Mar 2009 08:07:02 AM UTC, comment #1:

Originally reported at:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60794

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Project Administrator
Thu 12 Mar 2009 08:05:06 AM UTC, original submission:

Patch does not allow to send reject files to /dev/null: it does not recognize device files. The resulting error message is:

Can't rename file /tmp/prCgL81a to /dev/null :
Permission denied

Not having patch create reject files is useful sometimes, though.

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Project Administrator

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach File(s):
   
   
Comment:
   

Attached Files
file #17660:  patch-2.5.9-cat_if_device.diff added by agruen (2KiB - text/x-diff - Proposed fix from Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>)

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -unavailable- added by agruen (Submitted the item)
  •  

    Do you think this task is very important?
    If so, you can click here to add your encouragement to it.
    This task has 0 encouragements so far.

    Only logged-in users can vote.

     

    Please enter the title of George Orwell's famous dystopian book (it's a date):

     

     

    Follow 3 latest changes.

    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sat 14 Mar 2009 10:26:54 AM UTCagruenStatusNone=>Duplicate
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Thu 12 Mar 2009 08:11:07 AM UTCagruenAttached File-=>Added patch-2.5.9-cat_if_device.diff, #17660

    Back to the top


    Powered by Savane 3.1-cleanup1