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Re: diff -r is not flexible in handling symlinks
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: diff -r is not flexible in handling symlinks |
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Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:01:05 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:52:14 -0400
> The infinite loop should be fixed in GNU diffutils 2.8.1,
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> How does it do that?
It uses the standard algorithm for detecting infinite loops in
directed graphs. (Luckily this is easier than the halting problem. :-)
> I can't see anything in the NEWS or documentation that says that
> there has been a change in how symlinks are handled.
I didn't think it worth adding, since it was just a bug fix. However,
I'll put something into the NEWS file. It's been there ever since
test version 2.7.2, so it's old news.