Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:51:13 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Kernel diff problem |
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This is not a kernel code issue, but it has caused me some difficulties, not to mention embarassment, and I wonder if someone there can explain:
$diff -u -r -N vanilla11 linux-new11 > junk & $ diff -u -r --new-file vanilla11 linux-new11 > junk2 &
time passes and $ ls -l junk* -rw-rw-r-- 1 yodaiken yodaiken 64742 Aug 1 15:13 junk -rw-rw-r-- 1 yodaiken yodaiken 43794 Aug 1 15:10 junk2
Two "diffs" only difference is "--new-file" and "-N" which should be identical $ diff --version diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7
Stock Rdhat 6.0
The hyphen in the second directory name? Control-c'ing during a make? Microsoft moles ? Something stupid I did ?
The kernel is 2.3.11 -- the vanilla one, not my version that I was getting a diff for. When I copied these directories to a second machine, I got similar results until I removed the vanilla11 directory and made a new one from a fresh tar file.
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