Re: bin/41457: patch(1) -p option dosen't allow to omit numeric argument.

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:00:17AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/41457; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: taca%back-street.net@localhost
> Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: bin/41457: patch(1) -p option dosen't allow  to omit numeric
>       argument.
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 02:59:30 +0000
> 
>  On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:05:01AM +0000, taca%back-street.net@localhost 
> wrote:
>   >   On NetBSD 4, patch(1)'s allows -p option without numeric argument.
>  
>  IMO, options should either always take or always not take arguments.
>  Otherwise the behavior is ambiguous. So it seems to me that NetBSD 4's
>  patch should be adjusted to remove this misfeature...

FWIW, gnu patch always require a numeric argument to -p

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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