As near as I can read the man page, files should be created by patch if the
original is listed as /dev/null or is empty and has a creation time of the Epoch
(1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC), regardless of whether --posix has been specified (it
claims --posix will cause patch to conform to the POSIX.2 specification).
Depending on the POSIX.2 specification, which I don't have access to, this
appears to be either a documentation or an implementation bug.
[dprice@empress temp]$ echo a line >tmp
[dprice@empress temp]$ diff -cN /dev/null tmp >tmp.diff
[dprice@empress temp]$ cd test
[dprice@empress test]$ patch --posix -p0 <../tmp.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|*** /dev/null Thu Aug 24 05:00:32 2000
|--- tmp Thu Feb 8 13:58:29 2001
--------------------------
File to patch:
This happens using context diffs, unified diffs, and regardless of whether the
'-p0' option is supplied to patch.
Derek
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