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

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/41457; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
taca%back-street.net@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/41457: patch(1) -p option dosen't allow  to omit numeric 
argument.
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:10:12 +0200

 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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