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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:34:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: Wierd patch problem + simple fix
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In-Reply-To: <3927DD35.C31AC4AA@vinschen.de>; from corinna@vinschen.de on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 02:57:25PM +0200

On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 02:57:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I'm completely unable to reproduce that problem...
>
>...as far as the $TMP directory is on the same drive
>   as the patched file!
>
>Terry Wilson gave the correct hint. Nothing has changed
>with patch itself. It tries to rename the temp file to
>the name of the file that should be patched and failes
>because the rename failes across drives.

But I really can't believe that this is a generic patch bug.
/tmp is often located on a different partition than a 'src'
directory and it is hard to believe that this could be broken
in patch.

Is it possible that some stat (st_dev maybe?) field has changed
recently?

cgf

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