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Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 17, 2005, 21:44 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505171443180.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>
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<20050517213447.GN7136@pasky.ji.cz>
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> Perhaps some artificial timestamp could help to the file
> removal heuristic in GNU patch. Or passing it -E, but that will
> obviously do the wrong thing to any other zero-sized files.

-E is always correct for the kernel, since zero-length files aren't really supposed to exist anyway, and "make distclean" has always removed them.

		Linus
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