signal handlers should not call exit() due to possibility of reentering
libc (stdio etc), instead do the unlink tasks then call _exit() instead
ok millert

Remove support for automatically checking files out of RCS. The
behavior is confusing to users and even GNU patch no longer does
it by default. OK krw@ guenther@

The function savestr allows NULL return values during Plan A patching so in
case of out of memory conditions, Plan B can step in. In many cases, NULL
value is not properly handled, so use xstrdup he

The function savestr allows NULL return values during Plan A patching so in
case of out of memory conditions, Plan B can step in. In many cases, NULL
value is not properly handled, so use xstrdup here (it's outside Plan A/B
patching, which means that even Plan B relies on successful operations).

show more ...

umask juggling not needed; with Lionel Fourquaux.
ok millert@ espie@

Do not call out mkdir -p, but reuse the code from mkdir(1).

Removes the possibility of nasty stuff happening thanks to unquoted
arguments in system(1).

Also plug a small memory leak.

Problems noti

Do not call out mkdir -p, but reuse the code from mkdir(1).

Removes the possibility of nasty stuff happening thanks to unquoted
arguments in system(1).

Also plug a small memory leak.

Problems noticed by Lionel Fourquaud.

okay millert@, deraadt@

show more ...

spacing

o fairly major man page reorganization
o add --posix option for strict POSIX conformance
o change filename determination to match GNU patch
Tested by various people, including a full ports build by n

o fairly major man page reorganization
o add --posix option for strict POSIX conformance
o change filename determination to match GNU patch
Tested by various people, including a full ports build by naddy@

show more ...

Add license from patch.c to original source files missing a license.

ok deraadt@

More cleanup: sprinkled some const, removed ugly EXTERN/INTERN.h,
some rewriting of code to make it more readable and more KNF.

ok millert@ tedu@ deraadt@

Add POSIX -b option but don't change the default beahvior wrt backups
yet. The old -b option is now -z (matches GNU patch).

nicer

More cleanup.
ok millert@ tedu@

fix header

knf and other cleanup; ok otto

remove junk; ok otto tedu

Use libc basename(3) and dirname(3) instead of defining our own. Also clean up some nasty assumptions that basename() returns a pointer that lies within its argument

Support the long options that FSF's patch version has. $OpenBSD$ added

initial import of NetBSD tree