Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Or could this be regarded as a defect in POSIX?
That's what I'd say, yes. POSIX was intended to codify GNU diff's behavior here, and it seems to have missed the corner case you describe.
- [bug-diffutils] bug#19825: unified output format, number o... Vincent Lefevre
- [bug-diffutils] bug#19825: bug#19825: unified output... Paul Eggert
