Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 23 May 1998 08:48:42 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Derrik <> | | Subject | Re: prepatch-2.0.34 |
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On Sat, 23 May 1998, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> After applying the patch I found tons of .c, .h and .orig files in > /usr/src/linux. > > The kernel itself seems to compile flawless. While applying the patch I > couldn't spot any errors. > > Is this supposed to be so ?
Yes, older versions of patch _always_ leave .orig's after patching. Not unusual at all. If you want, you can get the latest version of the patch utility from gnu.org or a mirror - it only leaves .orig's if there's a fuzz factor or if the patch fails.
Derrik Pates dpates@kalifornia.com dpates@acm.org
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