Re: diff -r is not flexible in handling symlinks

[dworley]

   From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>

   > While attempting to use 'diff' to compare my Linux filesystem with a
   > replica of it, I discovered that diff -r always follows symlinks.
   > This was not useful, because my filesystem contained a symlink "SRC ->
   > ..", which caused diff to get into an infinite loop.

   The infinite loop should be fixed in GNU diffutils 2.8.1, which you
   can get from:

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz

How does it do that?  I can't see anything in the NEWS or
documentation that says that there has been a change in how symlinks
are handled.

Dale