Re: bin/54620: patch(1) has issues with long lines

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The following reply was made to PR bin/54620; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: coypu%sdf.org@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/54620: patch(1) has issues with long lines
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:21:39 +0000

 Oops, the failing variant is with "10000s" :-)
 
 #!/bin/sh
 
 printf %10000s |tr " " "a" > longlines 2>/dev/null
 
 cat << EOF > longlines.patch
 --- ./longlines.orig	2019-10-16 09:25:30.667656644 +0000
 +++ ./longlines
 @@ -1 +1 @@
 EOF
 
 printf -- "-"%10000s"\n" |tr " " "a" >> longlines.patch 2>/dev/null
 printf -- "+"%10000s |tr " " "b" >> longlines.patch 2>/dev/null
 
 patch longlines < longlines.patch