Fwd: Re: bug with diff 2.8.1

[jdeifik]

> All the generated files are output from dd.
...
> My original bug report was incorrect with respect to the size of the pieces.
> They are 2gb each, not 1gb each.
> 
> The files being backed up are of a relatively standard distribution of linux.
> I am 99% sure that they are all binary (being output of dd on a hard drive 
> partition),
> and there are no text files.

Everything I said was correct, however the file that diff bombs out on has 
several
million lines of ascii before having random binary data.

I fear that diff might think it is a pure text file, try to read it into memory,
and them run out of memory. Nonetheless, I consider it a bug if diff runs out
of memory on identical files.

Thanks,
jdeifik