On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > > It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is > > intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the > > following: > > copy a b > > that then: > > diff ./a .\b > > says that the files are completely different, whereas: > > diff ./a .\a > > says they are completely equal, while files a and b are character for > > character identical! > > diff has an optimization that compares the arguments' inodes, and reports > identity for the files with the same inode. No matter which slash you > use, they both resolve to the same file (only the metadata may be > different), so the inode is the same. The inodes for "a" and "b" aren't > the same, so diff goes ahead and does the comparison (which reports the > differences in line endings). Try "ln a c" and compare "a" with "c" using > your syntax. :-)
This part does sound like a bug. Perhaps this diff optimization should be suppressed, since in cases like this, ./a and .\a have effectively different content. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
