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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | [bug-diffutils] bug#33467: bug#33467: bug#33467: bug#33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode |
Date: | Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:16:57 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 |
On 11/30/18 7:09 AM, Delian Krustev wrote:
This can be easily cross-reported to LKML. If "diff" developers blame the kernel/fs both parties should discuss it as its unacceptable a core utility to be unusable. ( I'm pretty sure though, that the kernel developers will be convinced that it does not need change. ) All we need is command line option which can turn off the comparison by dev/ inode. Does not sound like too much work.
Except that it does not scale. Working around a kernel/filesystem bug in every single affected user space app is nowhere near as efficient as just fixing the kernel/filesystem bug.
-- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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