[bug-diffutils] bug#19186: bug#19186: [PATCH] OS/2 patches

[KO Myung-Hun]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:24 PM, KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:37 PM, KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:29 PM, KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi/2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These are OS/2 patches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Review, please...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [PATCH 1/2] build: use quotation mark(") for PATH
>>>>>> [PATCH 2/2] diff: skip test if seek is not possible on OS/2 kLIBC
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw no patches here, but was able to dig them out of the
>>>>> bug-tracking system at http://debbugs.gnu.org/19186.
>>>>> I have applied and pushed the first one.  Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, for the second, my inclination is that if at all possible,
>>>>> it should be fixed via an lseek replacement that does something
>>>>> more sensible. Of course, that may not be possible, but from
>>>>> what you've presented so far, I cannot tell. Please demonstrate
>>>>> a use of diff that shows how OS/2+kLIBC's lseek fails.
>>>>
>>>> Do you want this ?
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> $ cat file | diff - file
>>>> diff.exe: -: Invalid seek
>>>> -----
>>>
>>> Yes.  Thanks. That shows how lseek-pipe fails on your system.
>>> Please adjust your patch to make diff ignore failure only in that case,
>>> i.e., when errno == EINVAL (assuming strerror(EINVAL)
>>> produces that diagnostic).
>>
>> Do you mean to add errno == EINVAL to if() for pfatal_with_name() ?
> 
> No.
> Skip the test only when this lseek fails with precisely that errno value:
> 

Ok. Fixed.

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KO Myung-Hun

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