What happens when we apply LINUX patch on sun solaris operating system?

You will always get a request to apply patch in oracle apps  instance in the form of ticket.Once you open
the ticket you will find the details.
In ticket user mentioned below things?
Please apply the patch 11894044 in ebsqa/ebsoltp/ebsdev/ebstest Instance .


Answer .When you apply linux patch on sunsolaris operating system the patch will get failed with below
error message.

Current installed release is 12.1.3

Reading patch driver file...

Parsing and loading patch driver file...

AutoPatch error:
adprdf(): At line 5 in file u11894044.drv:
This patch can only be applied on platform "SUN_OS5".
Your platform is "LINUX".

193 lines processed.

AutoPatch error:
AutoPatch encountered errors parsing and loading the patch driver file.


You should check the file
/u01/erpapp/appl/admin/ebsqa_BALANCE/log/11894044.log

for errors.

[appqa@ctsqa 11894044]$