From: "David Balažic" <xerces9@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cmp (or echo) bug?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPJ9Yc98XEzwgudOa7qoq9Cg3fc-f=_k74YNN1n4WtbQbm1b3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOC2fq_mZtrX-EyT6QkzoSfXgqQW8OHsiPmoeBktosfE1cx2xQ@mail.gmail.com>
It is irrelevant how it is implemented. The command means "compare the
output of those two commands" and the only correct result is "they
differ on byte 5".
It is clearly a bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-28 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-25 21:32 David Balažic
2015-12-26 6:42 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-12-26 12:49 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-12-27 17:23 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-12-28 17:08 ` David Balažic
2015-12-28 18:20 ` Michael Enright
2015-12-28 20:58 ` David Balažic [this message]
2015-12-29 4:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-12-29 16:43 ` Houder
2016-01-03 17:21 ` David Balažic
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