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[PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej <at> svobodasoft.cz>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 19509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19509: [bug-diffutils] bug#19509: bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:25:42 -0700

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On 02/11/2015 04:37 PM, Ondřej Svoboda wrote:
> I also posed this question to myself -- how can we tell two fifos apart?
> Do they by any chance store e.g. a file descriptor when they are being
> used?
> 
> I am not aware of any comparison done to fifos but I may as well be wrong.

fstat() will tell you if two fds are the same fifo - their st_dev and
st_ino will be equal.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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