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Re: broken patch program


On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:28:26AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 09:53 AM 10/19/2000, stefan wrote:
>>is it known to you that `patch' does not apply `diff's output in most
>>cases ? It always looks like this.
>>
>>  .
>>  .
>>  .
>>patching file `gdbm-1.8.0/gdbmerrno.c'
>>assertion "hunk" failed: file "/src/patch/patch.c", line 334
>>       0 [sig] PATCH 1001 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
>>PATCH.EXE.stackdump
>>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>>I was using the latest net release "shipped" with cygwin 1.1.4. But i
>>noticed this problem all he time i am using cygwin. That is why i got used
>>to use `diff' but `patch' on my linux box.
>>
>>stefan@lkcc.org
>
>This is news to me, and I've used patch with some regularity since b19...

I think that this is the perfect opportunity to say that I would gratefully
accept a patch to fix this behavior.

cgf

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