[OSUNIX-dev] Fully open libc and misc other news

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Sun Jul 18 17:12:02 GMT 2010


Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> 		patch
>
> I think GNU patch (which is the descendant of the original Larry Wall patch)
> is the only sane choice here - it's what /usr/bin/patch points to in OpenSolaris
> now, after many many years of customers complaining our patch was incompatible
> with many patch files in the wild.

gnu patch is incompatible to POSIX patch

Jörg

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