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patch: handle stripped/empty lines mid-hunk
Some programs will strip trailing spaces from hunks;
in this case we want to treat the line as though it
came with a leading space.

This fixes applying some patches, such as

	[PATCH] Permissions for child boards in /srv

--- a/sys/src/cmd/patch.c

+++ b/sys/src/cmd/patch.c

@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@

 	while(1){

 		if((ln = readline(f, &lnum)) == nil){

 			if(oldcnt != h.oldcnt || newcnt != h.newcnt)

-				sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk", name, lnum);

+				sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk: mismatched counts", name, lnum);

 			addhunk(p, &h);

 			break;

 		}

 		switch(ln[0]){

 		default:

-			sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk2", name, lnum);

+			sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk: leading junk", name, lnum);

 			goto out;

 		case '-':

 			addold(&h, ln);

@@ -303,6 +303,12 @@

 			addnew(&h, ln);

 			newcnt++;

 			break;

+		case '\n':

+			addold(&h, " \n");

+			addnew(&h, " \n");

+			oldcnt++;

+			newcnt++;

+			break;

 		case ' ':

 			addold(&h, ln);

 			addnew(&h, ln);

@@ -312,7 +318,7 @@

 		}

 		free(ln);

 		if(oldcnt > h.oldcnt || newcnt > h.newcnt)

-			sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk", name, lnum);

+			sysfatal("%s:%d: malformed hunk: oversized hunk", name, lnum);

 		if(oldcnt < h.oldcnt || newcnt < h.newcnt)

 			continue;