Some background is always helpful -- I'm building Mozilla,
and part of our build process is to apply some patches to
contributed files. We use the msys version of patch, and it has
always crashed as part of our build process, and it throws up
a windows crash notification dialog when it does (I kno
I might as well start off answering my own question...
By request from the rest of the team I've stopped using
cygwin along with moving to Vista. My Cygwin tools were
setup to automatically convert cr-lf files to lf internally,
so Unix files were loaded automatically.
The patch files had Unix li
