| Summary: | BSD diff(1) compares same files and dirs | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Andre Albsmeier <mail> | ||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | New --- | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | emaste | ||||
| Priority: | --- | ||||||
| Version: | 12.2-STABLE | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Created attachment 223468 [details] patch I was wondering why a "diff -rq" on FreeBSD-12 (BSD diff) ran endlessly while on FreeBSD-11 (GNU diff) it terminated in 0.6 seconds. This is because BSD diff compares files and dirs even if they are the same. I checked what GNU diff does in this case and added the corresponding code to diffdir() and diffreg(). The style is probably considered bad ;-).