Re: patch: handling special files in diff(1)

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Moritz Jodeit wrote:

> IEEE Std 1003.1-2003 [1] states the following about special files:
> 
> "If both file1 and file2 are directories, diff shall not compare block
> special files, character special files, or FIFO special files to any files
> and shall not compare regular files to directories."

thanks, millert@ committed a similar fix.  your diff would have 
prevented diff /dev/null foo.c from working, something i like using :).

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