Re: diff -r is not flexible in handling symlinks

[dworley]

   From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>

   Yes, that behavior should be available.  Similarly for special files,
   named pipes, doors, etc.

Doors?  That's a new one on me!

   Also, when diff is comparing a symbolic link to a regular file, you
   should be able to see that one is a symlink with contents S, whereas
   the other is a regular file with contents T.  However, there are
   several possible behaviors here, and as far as I know nobody has had
   the time to think through all the issues.

Yeah, there are a lot of minor issues that nonetheless need to be
handled well.

Dale