[bug-diffutils] bug#29311: Byte comparison from cmp diffutils

2017-11-15 Thread s3gmentationfa...@gmail.com
Hi, i write this message regarding to my previous bug report, i have see just now that posix section of manpages say: "The cmp utility shall write no output files are the same. Under default options, if they differ, it  shall write tostandard  output the byte and line number at which the first d

[bug-diffutils] bug#29311: Byte comparison from cmp diffutils

2017-11-15 Thread s3gmentationfa...@gmail.com
Hi, i write this message because cmp command from diffutils give an unexpected result if is used on binary files: if we try to compare two different files (not symlink, not hardlink etc..), cmp say that the differ from 42 byte. ~ > LC_ALL=C cmp /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/gc