GNU bug report logs - #21942
Files with incorrect file sizes

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Stephan Müller <fruktopus <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stephan Müller <fruktopus <at> gmail.com>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 21942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21942: [bug-diffutils] bug#21942: bug#21942: Files with incorrect file sizes
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:39:57 -0800

Stephan Müller wrote:
> What do you think about a flag

I'd rather avoid a flag. User-visible complexity has a cost, and we're better 
off keeping things simple.

Is there some easy way to tell whether we're on a file system like procfs that 
has the bug?  Perhaps we can have a list of known good file systems.  But this 
is lower priority than getting the bug fixed.
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