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diff command modified my file

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From: Hong Jehn <hongjehn <at> icloud.com>
To: 27241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27241: diff command modified my file
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 04:05:37 +0800

When I use command "diff -qr abc/ usb/abc/" to compare 2 directory,  it changes the "centos_7_x86_64_Minimal.iso" sometime but the file size didn't change even when I just ran the same command and it says they are the same. Other file are fine, it changes only this iso file.

Also, I wrote a similler program like diff before it came out the same problem. I guess it's a glibc bug? I kept the broken file in case you need it.

This problem comes out like once a week, I kept the sha256-code but this problem seems serious.

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