On 07/17/2018 09:05 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
Thanks, I'll let you know about my findings.
As a start, I got all the headers from a NetBSD 4.0 with gcc installed.
After looking into those headers, I noticed the following:
a) There is no getfsstat(), but there is getvfsstat(), and its argument
i
On 07/17/2018 08:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Barath Aron wrote:
Does gnulib support BSD's getmntinfo()? Since it looks not, what can
we do?
Gnulib ports to the operating systems (including BSD operating
systems) available at the time Gnulib was written, and it still ports
to the current versio
Barath Aron wrote:
Does gnulib support BSD's getmntinfo()? Since it looks not, what can we do?
Gnulib ports to the operating systems (including BSD operating systems)
available at the time Gnulib was written, and it still ports to the current
versions of these operating systems as far as we k
I don't want to flood the mailing lists, so let me merge Bruno's mail again.
On 07/17/2018 05:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 07/16/2018 10:41 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
I guess it is more like a hack than a solution.
Quite true. We need a real solution here, not a hack. But that will
need someone
Morgan Weetman wrote:
I'm not sure this is the correct list for your query... but does your diff
not have a '--no-dereference' option?
Ahhh...it does -- just not documented in the man page.
As for sending to wrong list..look at that address.
"bug-diffut...@gnu.org"
of course I just
On 07/16/2018 10:41 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
I guess it is more like a hack than a solution.
Quite true. We need a real solution here, not a hack. But that will need
someone to look into it. If Threos is supposed to be like POSIX, it
should use the POSIXish part of the relevant Gnulib code, not
I'm not sure this is the correct list for your query... but does your diff
not have a '--no-dereference' option?
On 17 July 2018 at 19:06, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> Problem I'm running into is comparing two copies of tree that also
> contains multiple symlinks.
>
> First -- I see no way of telling di
Problem I'm running into is comparing two copies of tree that also
contains multiple symlinks.
First -- I see no way of telling diff not to follow symlinks in
doing comparisons. This seems non-standard for unix/linux utils and in
this case is causing alot of needless comparing like
trying to
