We have a bad habit of duplicating contents of files that are sourced from
/dev/null and applied more than once... take the more sane (in most ways)
GNU route and complain if the file exists and offer reversal options.
This still falls short a little bit as selecting "don't reverse, apply
anyway" will still give you duplicated file contents. There's probably other
issues as well, but awareness is the first step to happiness.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21535
Patch(1) uses a short int for the line length, which is usually
sufficient for regular diffs, but makes no effort to signal
when there is an overflow.
Change the line length to an unsigned short int to better use
the fact that a length is never negative. The change is loosely
inspired on a related change in DragonFly, but we avoid spending
more memory than necessary.
While here adjust the messages to be clearer on what is happening.
MFC after: 1 week
- Remove $DragonFly$ tags as they are using git nowadays and VCS tags will
not help merging.
- Other changes to Copyright headers to make them consistent with other
source code, we intend to fork from this point.
Reviewed by: pfg
DragonflyBSD and install it as bsdpatch. WITH_BSD_PATCH makes it
default and installs GNU patch as gnupatch.
Submitted by: pfg
Obtained from: The DragonflyBSD Project
