Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:30:49 -0800

Ondřej Svoboda wrote:
>       }
> +      else if (S_ISFIFO (cmp.file[0].stat.st_mode)
> +               && S_ISFIFO (cmp.file[0].stat.st_mode))
> +    {
> +      /* Both are fifos.  */
> +    }

If they're the *same* fifo, they should compare the same (and already do, if I'm 
not mistaken).  But if they're *different* fifos?