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[bug-diffutils] bug#33467: bug#33467: "diff" can not scan directories wi


From: Mark Raymond
Subject: [bug-diffutils] bug#33467: bug#33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:06:42 +0000
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POSIX says that a file is uniquely determined by its inode and device
number.

This makes sense for files - but I'm not convinced it makes sense for 
directories. The only cases I can think of where two directories could have the 
same inode and device number are bind mounts (and theoretically directory hard 
links) - and in both those cases it's legitimate for there to be different 
mounts on subdirectories.






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