From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:19:55 +0200 From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120421161955.058cc9c8@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] System patch failed: Permission denied Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79b6519e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I thought that patch would use full path if -p not given, > but it seems otherwise. No. Without -p, patch retains only the last element in the path. There are new files in your patch, but you can't usually create files into /. That's why it failed. Patch is a bit confusing because it hasn't showed you the first error message, which was: mounted directory forbids creation -- David du Colombier