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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: leila karami <karami.leila1 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:57:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 15458

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 15459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hugo.Mildenberger <at> web.de
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 15459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, leila karami <karami.leila1 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#15459: diff -Z hangs [was: bug#15459:
 bug#15459: bug#15459: bug#15459:]
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:05:09 +0200

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:20:20 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/25/2013 10:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 09/25/2013 09:52 AM, leila karami wrote:
> >> Dear Eric
> >>
> >> I obtained old.gro file from linux, then I changed and saved it in windows
> >> (new.gro). I want to use new.gro file in linux again.
> >>
> >> I attached files in free compression format (such as gzip).
> >>
> >> I want to do some works to obtained new.gro file exactly similar to style
> >> and format of the old.gro to use new.gro in linux.
> >> Please tell me how to do this work exactly?
> > 
> > If line endings are all that differs, use 'diff -Z' to ignore the
> > trailing space differences, or download the 'dos2unix' utility and
> > reconvert your file back into desired line endings before doing the diff.
> 
> Hmm, you may have found a real bug after all:
> 
> $ diff --version | head -n1
> diff (GNU diffutils) 3.3
> $ diff -Z <(printf 'a\nb\n') <(printf 'a\nb\n'); echo $?
> 0
> $ timeout 10s diff -Z <(printf 'a\r\nb\n') <(printf 'a\nb\r\n'); echo $?
> 124
> 
> Why is 'diff -Z' going into an infinite loop and timing out after ten
> seconds, instead of ignoring differences caused by mixed-mode carriage
> returns?
> 
> -- 
> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
> 

diff 3.3 (probably compiled with gcc-4.7.3 p1.0, pie-0.5.5, 
glibc-2.17 on amd64) does not timeout on my system:

 $ diff -Z <(printf 'a\nb\n') <(printf 'a\nb\n'); echo $?
 0
 $ timeout 10s diff -Z <(printf 'a\r\nb\n') <(printf 'a\nb\r\n'); echo $?
 0

Hugo Mildenberger

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