[bug-diffutils] bug#33467: bug#33467: bug#33467: bug#33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode

[Eric Blake]

On 11/30/18 7:09 AM, Delian Krustev wrote:

> This can be easily cross-reported to LKML. If "diff" developers blame the
> kernel/fs both parties should discuss it as its unacceptable a core utility to
> be unusable. ( I'm pretty sure though, that the kernel developers will be
> convinced that it does not need change. )
>
> All we need is command line option which can turn off the comparison by dev/
> inode. Does not sound like too much work.

Except that it does not scale. Working around a kernel/filesystem bug in 
every single affected user space app is nowhere near as efficient as 
just fixing the kernel/filesystem bug.

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