From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28405 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2003 19:11:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28398 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2003 19:11:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rose.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.13) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2003 19:11:56 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by rose.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18rjjf-0002RO-00 for overseers@sources.redhat.com; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:11:55 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rjjf-0001K8-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:11:55 +0000 Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:11:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cron sh] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-q1/txt/msg00362.txt.bz2 On 8 Mar 2003, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I noticed with the binutils snapshot that diff now exits with status 2 > if there are binary files to be compared. I just stopped checking the > diff exit status. But arguably this is a bug in diff. The GCC snapshot/release process uses diff -a to include diffs for binary files. No users have yet complained about this causing problems with their version of patch, though there may not yet have been any binary diffs in any widely used GCC patches. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk