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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2004-03-16 00:40:34 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2004-03-16 00:40:34 +0000 |
| commit | 5f4c3fa8c992a73cf3a590bb05e0fcfe882394cd (patch) | |
| tree | f531dd735f940af417621b3f0eeb3a7893e008a1 /usr.bin/diff/diff.1 | |
| parent | And two promise pciide, from chris@ (diff) | |
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POSIX specifies that in directory mode device special files and
FIFOs shall be skipped. Other types of files may be skipped too
(this is implementation-dependent). In directory mode, just skip
anything that is not a regular file or directory. OK tedu@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/diff/diff.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/diff/diff.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 index 48adb1307d2..633c2f435c0 100644 --- a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 +++ b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.24 2004/01/25 14:48:32 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.25 2004/03/16 00:40:34 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ on text files which are different. Binary files which differ, common subdirectories, and files which appear in only one directory are described as such. +In directory mode only regular files and directories are compared. +If a non-regular file such as a device special file or FIFO is +encountered, a diagnostic message is printed. .Pp If only one of .Ar file1 |