Subject: Re: [vserver] patching file ????
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 01:01:40 +0200

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 05:52:49PM +0000, Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
> Hi

> filename it patches against are not shown? See the buttom of --dry-run

> root@dkVserver:/usr/src/linux-3.2.51# patch --dry-run -p1 < ../patch-3.2.50-vs2.3.2.16.diff

> patching file Documentation/vserver/debug.txt
> patching file Makefile
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej

> mismatch between .50 and .51, fixing by hand. But see below

> ...

> patching file net/sunrpc/auth.c
> patching file net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c
> patching file net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> patching file net/unix/af_unix.c
> patching file scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> patching file security/commoncap.c
> patching file security/selinux/hooks.c
> patching file 
> root@dkVserver:/usr/src/linux-3.2.51# 

> http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-3.2.50-vs2.3.2.16.diff

> "patching file" ?? which file?

the magic 0x7F file :) 

good catch, looks like a broken patch where a useless
special character file was added.

Will fix this on the next run, for the meantime I
guess you can simply ignore it.

best,
Herbert

> JonB