Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#31199: Diff sym link bug

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:12:03 -0700

On 04/17/2018 11:28 AM, Alessandro wrote:
> The bug is why show the error and ignore -N on sym link. 

I think we are miscommunicating. What I am saying is that diff is not 
ignoring -N, and there is an error if one directory has a dangling 
symlink and another directory has nothing.