From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: blaisorblade@yahoo.it, jdike@addtoit.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] uml: remove elf.h [ compile-fix, for 2.6.12 ]
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:23:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050509192324.14ab86ae.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DVKHF-0004w9-Ua@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
"Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>" <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > hmm, that's exciting. How to tell diff and patch to remove a zero-length
> > file?
>
> $ md a b c
> $ touch a/a
> $ echo .>c/a
> $ diff -purN a c
> diff -purN a/a c/a
> --- a/a 2005-05-10 04:08:14.000000000 +0200
> +++ c/a 2005-05-10 04:09:17.972505331 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +.
> $ diff -purN c b
> diff -purN c/a b/a
> --- c/a 2005-05-10 04:09:17.972505331 +0200
> +++ b/a 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1 +0,0 @@
> -.
> $ cd a
> $ patch -p1 # < both patches (c&p)
> <snip>
> $ ls -l
> total 0
That's cheating!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-10 2:24 UTC|newest]
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2005-05-10 2:15 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
2005-05-10 2:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-09 22:45 blaisorblade
2005-05-10 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-10 10:16 ` Blaisorblade
2005-05-10 18:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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