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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 15:31:36 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with diffutils
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:40:03AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Is anyone else experiencing this? Today I updated to the new
>diffutils-2.8.1-1, and now I can't perform diff on files:
>
>$ echo line 1 > a.txt
>$ echo line 2 >> a.txt
>$ echo line 2 >> b.txt
>$ echo line 3 >> b.txt
>$ cat a.txt b.txt
>line 1
>line 2
>line 2
>line 3
>$ diff a.txt b.txt
>diff: a.txt: Invalid argument
>$ diff -- a.txt b.txt
>diff: a.txt: Invalid argument
>
>As the same version of diff is working fine on my Linux box, I suspect
>there is a cygwin-related bug.

I could reproduce this but only on Windows 95 and only on a network
drive.

It is either a Windows bug or a Cygwin bug.  Regardless, I've worked
around it in the Cygwin DLL.  A fix should be in the next snapshot.

cgf

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