bug#71486: closed (no-dereference test fails on FreeBSD, NetBSD)

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regarding no-dereference test fails on FreeBSD, NetBSD
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> no-dereference test fails on FreeBSD, NetBSD
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> Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:20:42 +0200
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> On FreeBSD 14.0 and NetBSD 10.0, the unit test 'no-dereference' fails.
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> How to reproduce:
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> Use current diffutils git master.
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> $ ln -s loop loop
> $ mkdir subdir
> $ ln -s loop subdir/loop
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> # This part succeeds on all platforms:
> $ src/diff --no-dereference loop subdir/loop
> $ echo $?
> 0
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> # This commands succeeds on all platforms except FreeBSD and NetBSD
> # but fails on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
> $ src/diff --no-dereference loop subdir
> diff: subdir/loop: Too many links
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> The manual [1] says:
>   "If one file is a directory and the other is not, diff compares the file
>    in the directory whose name is that of the non-directory."
> But single-stepping through the code, I don't get through code that
> references 'subdir/loop'. It merely references 'subdir'.
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> The stack trace is:
>   diff.c:880
>     -> diff.c:1608
>          -> error
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> Bruno
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> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Invoking-diff.html
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#71486: no-dereference test fails on FreeBSD, NetBSD Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:51:41 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch which I hopes fixes it, and am boldly closing the bug report.

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