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bug #25857: Reject files cannot be redirected to /dev/null

Submitted by:  Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Submitted on:  Sat 14 Mar 2009 10:25:04 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sat 14 Mar 2009 02:41:08 PM UTC, comment #1:

Fixed in the "testing" branch.

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
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Sat 14 Mar 2009 10:25:04 AM UTC, original submission:

Reject files cannot be disabled (e.g., with "-r -"). They also cannot be redirected to /dev/null: if "-r /dev/null" is given, patch tries to rename the temporary reject file it creates to /dev/null. This fails for regular users, and leads to very unexpected results for root.

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
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