From: Henrik Nordstrom <uml@hno.marasystems.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: blaisorblade@yahoo.it, jdike@addtoit.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/6] uml: remove elf.h [ compile-fix, for 2.6.12 ]
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:37:33 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505101525360.16461@filer.marasystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050509183401.28082cbc.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> diff -L include/asm-um/elf.h -puN include/asm-um/elf.h~uml-remove-elf-h /dev/null
>
> hmm, that's exciting. How to tell diff and patch to remove a zero-length
> file?
This has to be instructed by the patch.. If the new file is an empty file
with timestamp of 1 Jan 1970 then it is supposed to be deleted.
The /dev/null trick only works well for adding files, not removing them.
Regards
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-10 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-09 22:45 blaisorblade
2005-05-10 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-10 10:16 ` Blaisorblade
2005-05-10 13:37 ` Henrik Nordstrom [this message]
2005-05-10 20:40 ` [uml-devel] " Adrian Bunk
2005-05-10 20:54 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-05-10 18:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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