On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/4/24 13:53, enh wrote: > > thanks (and hope you're feeling better soon)! > > Me too. It's persistent. > > > unfortunately this breaks the toybox tests when run with a toybox > > userspace. specifically: > ... > > +File - is a symbolic link while file file1 is a regular file > ... > > i guess the > > > > if ((i = S_ISREG(TT.st[0].st_mode)) != S_ISREG(TT.st[1].st_mode)) { > > char *fidir[] = {"regular file", "symbolic link"}; > > printf("File %s is a %s while file %s is a %s\n", > > files[0], fidir[!i], files[1], fidir[i]); > > TT.differ = 1; > > } else { > > > > behavior isn't the diffutils default? > > No, a symlink to a thing is the thing 99% of the time. > > Sheesh, often I'm doing "diff potato <(thingy)" and if diff gripes that one of > those is a FIFO and the other isn't, something is very wrong. It very much > should not care. (Why did gnu/dammit add this strange --no-dereference thing? > That's not diff's JOB. But it definitely should not impact behavior when you > didn't select it, that's just a regression. Test suite did its job catching > that.)
plan 9's rc didn't have that, Android's mksh doesn't have that ... there are other shells? :-) (i wasn't able to easily answer the "when was it added to bash?" question, but it's in macOS' 2007 bash 3.2, so it's not _that_ new...) > Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
