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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | [bug-diffutils] bug#19825: bug#19825: unified output format, number of consecutive unaffected lines, and POSIX |
| Date: | Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:49:35 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 |
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Or could this be regarded as a defect in POSIX?
That's what I'd say, yes. POSIX was intended to codify GNU diff's behavior here, and it seems to have missed the corner case you describe.
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