What's this patch ?

[Jon W{tte]

-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        26197 May  6 10:36 /usr/bin/patch*

This patch has no manual, and obviously got in here in one of the
last upgrades (2.0.1 or development tools) It appears to want
a COFF binary as argument...

This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that the name
"patch" is already taken by the familiar "patch" (as opposed to
"diff -c")

This is a stupid name clash, and dangerous since many scripts from
the net assume "patch == ~diff.c" and I bet some scripts from
Apple assume "patch == <mysterious binary>"

Any light to shed on the matter ?

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