[bug-diffutils] bug#19509: bug#19509: bug#19509: [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical

[Ondřej Svoboda]

Thank you, Eric!

I will try it out.

On 12.2.2015 01:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 04:37 PM, Ondřej Svoboda wrote:
> > I also posed this question to myself -- how can we tell two fifos apart?
> > Do they by any chance store e.g. a file descriptor when they are being
> > used?
> >
> > I am not aware of any comparison done to fifos but I may as well be wrong.
> fstat() will tell you if two fds are the same fifo - their st_dev and
> st_ino will be equal.