Opened 8 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#4089 closed task (fixed)

diffutils-3.6

Reported by: bdubbs@… Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 8.1
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

New minor version.

New features

When one file is a prefix of the other, cmp now appends the shorter file's size to the EOF diagnostic.

Bug fixes

Using an invalid regular expression with --ignore-matching-lines=RE (-I) no longer causes stack overflow. Before, with an invocation like the following, diff would diagnose the error, but would still proceed to blow the stack: 

diff -Ia -I\\ <(echo) < (echo b) [bug introduced in 2.9]

diff no longer mishandles line numbers exceeding 231 on Mingw-w64.

the ---presume-output-tty (ostensibly test-only) option would cause diff --color to read an uninitialized variable [bug introduced in 3.4]

Performance changes

diff's default algorithm has been tweaked to deal better with larger files, reversing some of the changes made in diffutils-3.4.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 7 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Fixed at revision 11255.

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