Hi,
on a diff with a missing new line, it is possible that patch will read
past the terminating NUL character.
Tobias
Index: pch.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/patch/pch.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -p -r1.42 pch.c
--- pch.c 17 Nov 2014 10:58:09 -0000 1.42
+++ pch.c 18 Nov 2014 14:25:31 -0000
@@ -344,9 +344,9 @@ intuit_diff_type(void)
ok_to_create_file = true;
/*
* If this is a new context diff the character just
- * before the newline is a '*'.
+ * at the end of the line is a '*'.
*/
- while (*s != '\n')
+ while (*s && *s != '\n')
s++;
p_indent = indent;
p_start = previous_line;