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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From: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej <at> svobodasoft.cz>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 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: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 05:22:11 +0100

Thank you, Eric!

I will try it out.

On 12.2.2015 01:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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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