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Dear diff devs,
when recursively comparing directory trees that contain unresolvable symlinks, both matching symlinks make diff senselessly emit a "No such file or directory". Wouldn't it be better if diff'ing two perfectly symmetrical dir trees containing the same broken symlinks would produce no output and a 0 return value?

Best Regards,
Marcel




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On 9/11/19 8:30 AM, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Dear diff devs,
> when recursively comparing directory trees that contain unresolvable symlinks, both matching symlinks make diff senselessly emit a "No such file or directory". Wouldn't it be better if diff'ing two perfectly symmetrical dir trees containing the same broken symlinks would produce no output and a 0 return value?

Yes, there should be an option to do that, and it should be enabled by default 
(unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).





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