GNU bug report logs - #25814
Windows same_file macro is not reliable

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #17 received at 25814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 "25814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <25814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#25814: bug#25814: Windows same_file macro is
 not reliable
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:30:53 -0800

On 02/21/2017 01:21 AM, Kees Dekker wrote:
> the fix in diff is now very simple

That may be, but it's bad software engineering practice to apply a bunch 
of painful-to-maintain "simple" changes to diffutils and other programs 
when the real problem is elsewhere. Let's fix the real problem. Surely 
it is a simple fix to Gnulib.
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