GNU bug report logs - #19509
[PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej <at> svobodasoft.cz>

Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 21:24:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, patch

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 19509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej <at> svobodasoft.cz>, 
 19509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical
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?
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