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Bug 553624

Summary:	option parsing of --get incorrect
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component:	patch	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.4	CC:	ebenes, omoris, pknirsch, tao
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	patch-2.5.4-30.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The "-g" option was not handled correctly by the patch command. This has been fixed.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	616003 618216 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-08-25 14:18:29 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	616003, 618216

Description Martin Poole 2010-01-08 13:11:19 UTC

Description of problem:

the long option parsing for the -g --get option incorrectly states it take no parameter.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

patch-2.5.4-29.2.3.el5

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. patch --get 1
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

$ patch --get
Segmentation fault

$ patch --get 1
Segmentation fault

Expected results:

$ patch --get
patch: option `--get' requires an argument
patch: Try `./patch-2.5.4/patch --help' for more information.

Additional info:

The fix is simply to change the parameter option for 'get' in the longopts in patch.c from no_argument to required_argument.

This bug is also present in the current upstream source.

Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2010-08-06 16:49:06 UTC

Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
The "-g" option was not handled correctly by the patch command.  This has been fixed.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-25 14:18:29 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0656.html