Re: [patch 1/6] uml: remove elf.h [ compile-fix, for 2.6.12 ]

[Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hmm, that's exciting.  How to tell diff and patch to remove a zero-length
> file?

$ md a b c
$ touch a/a
$ echo .>c/a
$ diff -purN a c
diff -purN a/a c/a
--- a/a 2005-05-10 04:08:14.000000000 +0200
+++ c/a 2005-05-10 04:09:17.972505331 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.
$ diff -purN c b
diff -purN c/a b/a
--- c/a 2005-05-10 04:09:17.972505331 +0200
+++ b/a 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-.
$ cd a
$ patch -p1   # < both patches (c&p)
<snip>
$ ls -l
total 0
-- 
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yelling at the front door, who do you let in first?
The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.

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